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were declassified. on that subject overnight, trump offered a, frankly, odd defense. >> if you're the president of the united states you can declassify by saying it's declassified. even by thinking about it. because you're sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you're sending it and there doesn't have to be a process. there can be a process but there doesn't have to be. you're the president. you make that decision. so when you send it, it's declassified. i declassified everything. >> he seems to be creating a new security category. declassified in his mind. more on that in a moment. ...

every community in america should be sharing in the burdens. it shouldn't all fall on a handful of red states. we are not a sanctuary state and it's better to be able to go to a sanctuary jurisdiction. >> instead of working on solutions republicans are p playing publics with human beings using them as props. what they're doing is wrong, un-american and reckless. >> president biden ripping the governors of florida and texas for busing and flying migrants to democratic states. >> texas governor greg abbott sent two buses of migrants to the president's resident in washington. and now jb...

subpoena and finally a search, investigators have retrieved 48 boxes including at least 320 classified documents, including 72 marked confidential, 108 secret, and 42 top secret. now, the filing as one former top fbi official puts it obliterates claims that the fo former president and his lawyers had been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. >> okay. so let's lay out the time line for you. the national archives had been working for months to get all of these missing records from trump even while he was in office. in january of this year, they finally got 1...

A trump appointee. and on this appeal panel were two trump appointed judges. his team was saying that trump should be able to keep everything, even what was deemed classified. and his team saying the fact that trump was under investigation was hurtful to him. they should put the brakes on it. the appeals court came back, no, that doesn't make sense. that's not a good enough reason, the possibility that you could be under investigation for us to pause the whole thing. finally on the declassification issue, are you that decl declassified, classified, the court wrote it's a red herring. right now...

Even challenging that anymore. >> does anyone challenge a sitting president has a right to declassify? >> no. >> that the a moot issue because we're talking about a former president here. he says that kash patel witnessed him declassifying and others did too. but the lawyers, they're not making that case in court, are they? >> no. because they didn't execute the process. say hypothetically the president in the presence of kash patel and a few other people did say i want to declassify everything. great. he can say that. if nobody executed that, told the agency original nating the information th...