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Often took documents including classified documents to the residence. he had a standing order. there is the word i've been looking for. that documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residents were deemed to be de classified the moment he removed them. the power to classify and de classify documents rests solely with the president of the united states. the idea that some paper pushing bureaucrat with classification authority delegated by the president need to approve the de classification is absurd. >> well, steve, what is the absurd part to you in that statement? >> where to beg...

Love notes to other world leaders and that might be the case, but something triggered enough alarm within the intelligence and law enforcement communities that has led us to this point today. >> and andy, you ran the fbi. you had to be at the top making these incredibly hard decisions. can you explain to us the significance of what it means that our reporting at cnn is that some of the boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago had materials that were part of the, quote, special access programs or s.a.p., however you guys term it, the acronym. why does that matter? >> we love our acronyms. typically peop...

The espionage act is for double agents and soviet spies cannot american presidents. the espionage act is the same thing investigated hillary over. and his we did not even have any classification authority and she had 10 because she was the one that set up the server and our enemies hack it. but i don't think trump's storage unit was packed. and she destroyed half of it. it was not raided. what did comi do about it? >> although there is evidence of potential violations of the statute regarding the handling of classified information to our judgment is no regional -- reasonable prosecutor would b...

Declassifying classified material. it can't just happen because he thinks it in his head or he's walking around as an original classification authority. it can't happen because he mentions it to an aide or writes it down on a cocktail napkin he halfway flushes down the toilet. there's got to be something that contemporaneously memorializing declassifying information. there has to be something that would corroborate his assertion that he declassified and it can't happen post hoc after he has left office because then he would have no authority to declassify anything. >> "the wall street journal"...

0 i'm sandra smith. >> mike: i'm mike >> martha: good afternoon, everybody. our continuing coverage of the breaking news story both on capitol hill and out of the mar-a-largo situation. the deadline has now arrived. it is 3:00 p.m. for the former president to contest the court in the release of the warrant that was involved in the raid of his florida home. fox news has just reviewed the warrant along with the property receipt. we're going through all of this. you've heard some of it over the course of the last several minutes. there were 20 boxes of items that were removed. some of them were l...