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Whether or not anything is protected by executive privilege. she said maybe the department overplays its hand but doesn't give the special master any guidance. why should it be that all of the documents have to go through a privilege review when donald trump never said the documents have to go through a privilege review. and remember his lawyers have been dealing with the archives for months and months about these documents. did they ever say executive privilege? no. did they say standing order to de classify these documents? no. so, this is kind of a grafted on solution at the end that looks ...

Home, keeping a golf club, our nation's most sensitive documents, special access programs is unfathomable to me. so i don't know that he has a defense besides attacking the prosecutors and all of the games he's playing on social media. i doan see a legal defense yet and i think the most important thing is that it has been two weeks since the search, donald trump hasn't offered a single explanation for what he's doing with these documents. he's -- they've had all sorts of different shifting explanations it is a standing order to de classify or this or that. but at the end of the day, you know, ...

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...

It. rachel: wonder why he hasn't done that already. i keep hearing if sessions doesn't do something i'm going to get involved. i'm going to get involved. pete people means it's he is going to fire mueller or sessions i think it means is he going to declassify. ed: doesn't fit the media native to be talking about bruce ohr and fbi and justice department problems. let's just talk about donald trump and his campaign in 2016. well, we also heard in the last 24 to 48 hours, look, interest may be more indictments coming from robert mueller. well, we didn't really hear. pete: wasn't chuck todd suppos...

The court, with the staff of the court to make sure that the application is buttoned up and passes court muster before they submit it. that takes the place of a hearing. i think it's something we should look at. should there be hearings. should there be more oversight and protections? i think we have that debate in the coming months. ed: i think he is a fair guy and man of integrity. the fact he keeps saying well, we got to look into this. well, there is a process here. let's get some answers. pete: answers the mead de classification of this process. done. the president of the united states ha...