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Of classification. >> he's living on a fair -- leaving open the possibility that of trump's team doesn't come up with something concrete in the course of the next few weeks, that he may say, i'm gonna take the government's word for it, and i'm gonna soon whatever they say about these classified documents is true. i think there's other arguments still the trump team can put forward, and they started to put forward today that maybe some of the documents are classified, but personal bizarre arguments like that, and they started talking about those things in court. without contesting the classific...

Want. and be, he himself doesn't want to look at the documents. that is how seriously he is treating the governments wind classification. >> he seems to be leaving open the possibility that -- something concrete beyond some tweets in the course of the next few weeks, that he may say, i'm gonna take the government's word for it, and i'm gonna soon whatever they say about these classified documents is true. i think there's other arguments still the trump team can put forward, and they started to put forward today that maybe some of the documents are classified, but personal bizarre arguments lik...

To prove that this stuff wasn't classified if that is indeed a critical issue that stunt contention in this case. >> until then, unless theyn do, that he's gonna presume they are classified. i thought was really interesting. a, he's not gonna let them have access to the documents as they desperately want, and be, he himself doesn't want to look at the documents. that's how seriously he's t treating the government claims of classification. >> he's living on a fair -- leaving open the possibility that of trump's team doesn't come up with something concrete in the course of the next few weeks, ...

These issues and to go to the 11th circuit and hope and expect that they will follow the law and do the right thing here. it's not about donald trump. it is about preserving things like the classification of government documents. >> and on the classification issue, donald trump is playing a very obvious game. he's saying things on talk shows that his lawyers who he has their phone number and talks to them aren't saying in their filings. let me show you what he said on a radio show called "hugh hewitt." >> mr. patel said he witnessed you giving verbal orders to declassify the papers that end up...

>> well, john, this investigation has been put on a bit of a hold since the search for a special master. does this strengthen the doj's argument to keep on investigating the documents well that search goes on? >> it does not necessarily strengthen it. i think the judge knows the weight of the classification issue. this reminds some people of the public of it. so, the public is a little bit more aware of it. we just got a teeny bit more information, just hits, really. no one knew the surveillance, for example, had gone on as long as it really had. almost six months before the search warrant was...