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Declassification powers. there is still a process, right? that you had to go through, what are you sources telling you about this would be a rule like this. would it possibly have undocumented if he did enact this sweeping rule, should've been documented? >> david axelrod will be able to tell you better than i am but yes. a president has broad powers to declassify but there is a process. it is a very complicated process. one source said to me, show me the presidents signature. lots of agencies get involved in this. it is not something that can be semi idea and dame said. he can't just wave a m...

Classified in washington, d.c. but once you put it on a plen and take it to his vacation home now it's declassified. it doesn't make sense. and to the extent that the president does have broad declassification powers, those don't exist in a vacuum. you have to tell somebody, you have to tell the national security adviser, you have to tell the cia, you have to tell somebody that this document is declassified because that's the meaning of it. everybody in the government knows that this document has been moved from one category to the next. >> which makes it clear that's not a real legal defense,...

Attorney general, bill barr, was given sweeping declassification powers by president trump earlier this year, which creates some anxiety, understandably, within the intelligence community about what could possibly be declassified or turned over to the justice department as part of this inquiry. of course, the justice department is fundamentally a criminal arm, so they're applying these criminal standards and criminal procedures to intelligence community product is generating a lot of nervousness. >> are you getting any official response from either the cia or haspel? >> no. we've gotten no res...