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That he knowingly violated the law. we have a lot of evidence to suggest he was on notice for a couple of these things. there is two big criminal statutes on point here. we talked about the presidential records act. put that aside. criminal law, there is one on actually the destruction of federal property, we know that is potentially on the table here. again it would require him to knowingly break the law. the second one is the mishandling of classified information. and that one is interesting b...

These were documents created under him. what exactly that means in the context of potential criminal probe although i should point out during the trump administration mishandling of classified information was a frequent attack that trump had against his political opponents. >> of course we all know how the campaign went with hillary clinton on that and he is the ultimate classification authority. the question is did he declassify any of this before he took it out of the white house. a lot of una...

Access to the president is going to have enemies and rivals and people who dislike her. thats unfortunate, but its part of the job. >> i want to get your reaction to tweeting out what experts say most certainly is an image of a satellite or drone showing the aftermath of that accident. betsy, is this something the president can share without the association of his aides? >> the president has the ultimate classification authority. anything the press has access to the president has the legal autho...

Shocked? we have the public comments from trump. the verasty of those comments being called into question by this reporting. but in terms of the law, the procedure, has the power toishau a security clearance. >> the president is the ultimate classification authority. he can decide who sees what information. the real challenge is presidents have always looked out for the national interest and tried to prevent people who could be compromised from having access to that information and theyre very c...

Chance of going anywhere in a republican controlled senate. >> exactly. its political stunt obviously on their side. what it really is is the president is the ultimate classification authority. any information in the united states government, he can declassify or classify at his request. theres a reason that weve invested our commander-in-chief with such broad-based authority. now, you know, the presidents critics are saying that he is silencing john brennan here, but as we saw, you know, john b...

Cannot reveal. the way they see it he is exploiting the use of his security clearance and his supposed access to these documents or his supposed access to these past documents as a way to push a political narrative against the president, which he never once testified to under oath before congress. so they are saying that his use of that authority is an abuse of the security clearance process that it gives a veneer of authenticity to what hes saying. and so they would like to remove that veneer o...

Of interviews with robert mueller that at no point did the president exceed his authority as commander-in-chief. jon: its interesting because the times says, you know, whats going to -- what will be determined here is how the president receives the news of mcgahns cooperation. well, the president is out with that tweet just now in which he says he allowed don mcgahn to meet with the special counsel. according to the president, it is not a big deal. >> yes exactly. the presidents attitude towards...

Is of course secret and he cannot reveal. the way they see it he is exploiting the use of his security clearance and his supposed access to these documents or his supposed access to these past documents as a way to push a political narrative against the president, which he never once testified to under oath before congress. so they are saying that his use of that authority is an abuse of the security clearance process that it gives a veneer of authenticity to what hes saying. and so they would l...

Chance of going anywhere in a republican controlled senate. >> exactly. its political stunt obviously on their side. what it really is is the president is the ultimate classification authority. any information in the united states government, he can declassify or classify at his request. theres a reason that weve invested our commander-in-chief with such broad-based authority. now, you know, the presidents critics are saying that he is silencing john brennan here, but as we saw, you know, john b...

Mcgahn insisted in the 30 hours of interviews with robert mueller that at no point did the president exceed his authority as commander-in-chief. jon: its interesting because the times says, you know, whats going to -- what will be determined here is how the president receives the news of mcgahns cooperation. well, the president is out with that tweet just now in which he says he allowed don mcgahn to meet with the special counsel. according to the president, it is not a big deal. >> yes exactly....