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There are steps you must take. and the appeals court essentially says, plaintiff suggests he may have decl declassified these documents when he was president. but the record contains no evidence that any of these records were declassified, the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying a document would not change the content or render unimportant. because they have secrets, they still government records not here. >> exactly. when you sit back, there's politics and law. two very different things. what donald trump is doing here, what's happening when ever the appeals court...

The declassification argument is a red herring -- declassifying an official document would not -- or render it personal. so, even if we assume that point of trump did declassify some or all of the documents, that would not explain why he has a personal interest in them. he has not identified any reason that he is entitled to them. the appeals court said the district court abused its discretion in exercising jurisdiction over plaintiffs trump's motion as it concerns the classified documents. judge cannon's legal reasoning on blocking the federal investigation of the classified documents and ord...

Classified information. and they sort of mocked his inability to put forward evidence in the court that he had in fact declassified anything something that he responded to by saying he did it in his own mind. it is a full scale win for the department of justice that will now be able to conduct the investigation of the potential damage from the leak of classified information to an insecure location and then follow up with, if appropriate, criminal charges. >> so let me ask you something, you were just touching on was donald trump's new comments about whey sees as his power to de classify anythi...

Trump did declassify the documents, that doesn't make them his property, concluding, "the declassification argument is a red herring because declassifying an official document would not change its content or render it personal." the appeals court ruling was a stinging rebuke to florida judge aileen cannon, a trump appointee who, at his request, named an independent special master to review all 11,000 documents seized from mar-a-lago and refused to let the fbi keep working with the classified material. the appeals court determined judge cannon had likely "abused her discretion." that of course ...

As doing so. but the president did allow a little slip this week. so. >> isn't he the greatest? >> he just has to sort of call it like he sees, it right? stay away from. >> let's just take a listen. let's see what he said. >> [inaudible] >> i don't know if the classifier thing the, world i'm president. i'm not gonna comment. i don't know the details. i don't really want to go. let me just take care of that. >> real quick. >> he is are the, malarkey that's all. he's just out of malarkey. but that is definitely true. this whole declassification argument is really kind of stupid into ways. one, i...