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let's start with the twice-impeached pathologically duplicitous former president on the truth social platform that his passports were seized by the fbi. there's one caveat to that, nbc has not independently claimed if it is true and it could be a significant detail in what's become a stream of revelations. "the washington post" out with new details on the early stages of the probe when officials at the national archives suggested that trump had documents in his possession even after they retrieved 15 boxes from mar-a-lago. at first archives officials believed that the fbi wasn't taki...

here. and later, first of his washington d.c.. and now texas governor greg abbott is blasting dozens of migrants to new york city. all of that and more is coming up. happy saturday morning, to i'm cory confident for katie fang. we have special -- of the fbi warrant and all of the twists and turns from this week of nonstop news. let's go sort of with what we know so far, a federal judge in florida until four documents telling us more about the mar-a-lago search. they show that fbi agents have covered 11 cents of classified arguments, including some that were top secret. according to t...

Declassification defense. i can declassify just by thinking about it. beth and i know it doesn't work that way. he concedes that that's not true, wolf. whether or not he had that document in front of him, he concedes. i could have declassified this when i was president suggesting he can't do it now. so he acknowledges the legal regime, as well, irrespective of his bravado defense. >> he acknowledges these are still classified documents that were lying around over there at the golf club. you know, paula, on the january 6th probe, there are serious developments unfolding right now. we know there...

Us now. from what you know, will this help federal investigators in their case as they look into the classified documents that were found in mar-a-lago? >> absolutely, sara. it undercuts the whole magical declassification defense. the easy part of the case is showing where the documents are found and what those documents were. the hard part is showing donald trump's intent. what did he know? did he know what he was doing was wrong? it shows the arkinchives told tp you can declassify, here's what you have to do. he did not do any of those steps, and therefore he did not declassify and knowingly...

At mar-a-lago was the result of haphazard recordkeeping and packing by white house staff and gsa. now, is that -- is that good news that his lawyers thought that if, in fact, the national archives instructed the white house on how to declassify documents? >> this is why as a criminal defense lawyer you don't want your client conducting national town halls on cnn. >> yeah. >> because your client may go south on you. that's what trump did here. look, this was essentially their only defense where they maybe had a chance of convincing a juror or two. it was chaos during the transition. some of thi...