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Purposes -- >> why are you looking at me? >> i'm saying as a whole. part of his announcement was to advocate to governors to do the same at the state level. i reached out to governor asa hutchin's office in arkansas they don't like this. this is a surrender to protecting the lives of victims of drug abuse. he looks at this across the board as a problem. they need to do it on a case by case basis -- >> it is for possession and use. not for dealing. >> well, i was going to say, nar r narrater's voice this is for politics. alice talked about a majority of americans but also a majority of republic...

Were thinking they might possibly appeal this. they are hitting today that they are willing to appeal a ruling to the supreme court if the 11th circuit really resists their request to exclude the roughly 100 documents marked classified and special master review. what does it tell you that they're willing to potentially lose more precious time to keep those documents from being seen? what does that tell you? >> one word, the president. >> i think it tells us -- >> laura -- >> he want as the department of justice to see that you have precedent. you don't want to have a fly by the seat of your pa...

>> you want as the department of justice to see that you have precedent. you don't want to have a fly by the seat of your pants approach, and hope on a case by case basis, you're able to conduct yourself in a way that serves the interests of the american people under the court of law. and what they are trying to do is say listen, the judges ruling earlier, judge cannon's ruling, to even have a special master, to extend the benefits of the doubt to a president who has, as nick said, not proven that he actually has declassified iffy ever was able to as a former president. the idea of saying look...

Very serious, but it is all not equally serious. and the most sensitive, the absolute most crucial for our national security is held in special programs that even people with regular top secret access can't get to. so once you have top secret clearance, you then have to qualify for access to special program information, and then on a case by case basis, you are read into specific programs because you have an essential need to be able to access that information. so this is stuff that even within the fbi, my office was a scif, i could store classified information in my office, but s.a.p. informa...

Going to prosecute a case like this without having a case before you, will help out having the specific -- you did say that if that law was passed, you then would not do something to prosecute. why would that be excusable, if a prosecutor's job was to enforce the laws as written? >> i'm glad that you asked that, it is a great question. because upon my hand on the bible and swore to uphold the u.s. and state constitutions. at the time, i saw that roe v. wade was the law of the land, under the u.s. constitution, and the florida constitution has an express right to privacy. the law that the gover...