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The FBI's seizure of top secret files from Donald Trump's home shined a spotlight on the declassification system. How does the process work?

President's tweeting. about that fox news report, do you believe his retweet is confirmation that u.s. spy satellites picked this up over in north korea? >> it probably is. you know, but he shouldn't be doing that. even though a president can declassify, you don't want to -- you don't want to put that out. if you are the commander in chief. so, he should just stop that but he's fot going to do it. he's going to keep doing this. he doesn't listen. he should listen to his secretary of state, his national security, secretary of defense and stop this. >> one quick question. the threat of a nuclear...

With multiple officials and the reporting on this, to withhold some of that including the city that trump references specifically in the conversation including some of the details he shares with the russian officials about the nature of the plot, about how the islamic state is trying to pull it together. the fact that those details are out there just underscores, i think, the accuracy of our report. >> all right. standby. i want to bring in david sanger. i want to get back to the panel. president can declassify, david, right, anything he wants but this was a president going off script. so what...

Withheld plot details including the name of the city not to jeopardize intelligence capabilities. so if you know the name of the city and other plot details, how does that line up with what the white house is saying tonight? >> well, exactly. i mean, these are details -- there's two things, don. so our sources were not wanting to compound the mistake here by revealing information that they believe trump should not have revealed to russian officials. and then there are other decisions we made as a news organization, had conversations with multiple officials and the reporting on this, to withhol...