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So there is some brushing of shoulders with areas that could be potentially classified but your guess is as good as mine. >> it would be ironic there was mark milley who was the subject of administer document waving around that is not worked its way into the mar-a-lago case. chuck, to the entrance of classified material in this case potentially slow things down given the fact that trump's defense team is looking for any reason to delay these trials and will presumably make an argument to delay the classified certification, to cease a process, could that slow us down in an unfortunate way here?...

Right. my sense is that when senior national intelligence officials come to the white house to brief the president, they often bring with them, and those are power points, sometimes charts or maps or diagrams. those are often locked as highly classified, in part because they go before the president, and if those senior officials who were briefing mr. trump and who were telling him that he had lost the election, there was no interference from venezuela, with the voting machines, if they are giving him classified information, some of it may be in writing, and subject to the classification proced...

Indictment, smith also refers to the director of national security and other folks involved in the intelligence community, giving trump counsel that all these various schemes were illegal. so there is some brushing of shoulders with areas that could be potentially classified, but your guess is as good as mine. >> it would be ironic if it was mark milley who was the subject of administer document waving around that is not worked its way into the mar-a-lago case. chuck, does the entrance of classified material in this case potentially slow things down given the fact that trump 's defense team is...

Determine whether it's in dei? >> well, it can be redacted. anything you redact, the jury would not feel to take into consideration. so, there is procedures that the government will ask for before trial. this will all get worked out before trial, under the classification procedures act, which provides a framework by those decisions for the judge. now, there's a procedure that is likely to be used here, because summaries and substitutions won't work, and it's called the silent witness rule. and that is a way to show that evidence to the jury and let defendants see it, let the defendant ask ques...

President's lawyers are begging the president to help them gather evidence. >> look, without getting overly technical here, and overly nerdy, there is a procedure, if evidence is classified, to declassify it for use in the criminal trial. >> right. >> a defendant can take advantage of it. a prosecutor can take advantage of it. it's called the classification procedures act. you don't do that by dumping it into the public record. you do that in a thoughtful, studied way in front of a federal judge. and we can do that. we do that all the time in federal court. >> the releasing of text messages, a...