CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell June 4, 2024 19:17:00
Restructuring the classification system. there are regulations and procedures in place. the president does have declassification authority, but he can't just sweep aside all the rules, so we would need to see if there was contemporary documentation, if the procedures were followed, if he was just making that up, and even if he got out from under the classification issues, under a variety of statutes, including 18 usc 2071 he's legally liable, potentially criminally liable for removing, mutilating or destroying any document, not just classified ones, so i don't think that ploy is likely to succ...
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