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America and enrich himself and his family to, my producers were in my ear to one of those montage is saying that you are having a response to seeing all of those late night hosts rang on the future president because it really is absurd, this idea that you can declassify something just by thinking about it? >> i couldn't help it, i melissa and i have both within texas and i have watched television so this is like seeing it for the first time and i was laughing hysterically because, i thought, now i had to go change my plan to wear dorothy's magic choose and warned, so that i could empower donal...

Telegraphing that you're declassifying information. now i will give donald trump this. there have been instances where presidents have, you know, with the flick of a wrist essentially said i am authorizing this person access to this information that is above their classification level, i am reducing this level of classification so that so-and-so can see it. there have been instances with that. but when donald trump said the other day, i declassified everything, i thought to myself, really? because that would be beyond bizarre. not only did he say he could declassify by thinking it, but he said...

Out where this information may have been viewed, gone, been seen by, or not. you know, that would be important too, for them to determine, you know what, these documents just sat in the offices and basements or locations within mar-a-lago and didn't get out. that would be important to know as well. but at some point i think the classification level of the documents and the volume of classified information is what is driving the intensity of this investigation, which clearly is ongoing. >> elie, the former attorney general, bill barr, said they jawboned for more than a year over this before the...

And that's really the basic premise that is underlying all of this. i do think that the fact that so much of this information was classified, including lots of information at top secret levels, compartmented programs, really highly classified information, that is what would have lit the fire under the justice department to at some point say we can't wait anymore. we've been engaged in a dialogue for as long as we could. we need to get these documents back and do the damage assessment led by the intelligence community to figure out where this information may have been viewed, gone, been seen by...

So, that is what those documents are, just to tell you. so, you would not see those documents in the light of day at any stage. you would not see them in a way which they could be duplicated, which is a primary concern. you would see them with your phone, and otherwise, you have to give up your phone to give information like this. and the rest the stuff in the picture is somewhat redacted. you really cannot see its classification level. but the picture is, you certainly cannot justify it. the information does not belong to donald trump. he is a private citizen who should not retain this inform...