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For fbi generated information, i could make the decision to close classify or for that matter to classify. and i know the process. i know what it looks like. i know my signature is on documents that i classified. and you can know who did it and when. but what i'm intrigued by with kash patel and you mentioned lawyers protecting themselves, he is protecting himself because i think that he knows that this is nonsense that he has been spouting about i saw the president declassify all this stuff, i think that he could think about it. nonsense. but he's protecting himself and i think that he will e...

Cooperating witness. and now you have the white house lawyers who would be aware of what trump was told about the process for taking any records from the white house. and they testified many moons ago. so talk about what jack smith knows from talking to everyone who has represented trump and any context where he would have any to do, say or think about classified material. >> and we use the word unprecedented a lot but there is just no case i've ever heard of that has built so much on the backs of a defendant's lawyers. and in broad i think that there are two reasons for it. one is that he use...

Not a gag order, mr. trump is free to campaign, defend himself. what he's not free to do is violate the terms of this order. everybody trying to be on clear behavior, the lawyer and the judge. this is what we have told you, because everyone is trying to protect themselves and the process against the possibility and the real probability that donald trump is not going to go along with it. >> there's an undeniable parallel to what's going on in jack smith's classified documents case where we've been talking about the extraordinary fact that half a dozen lawyers are now witnesses against trump bei...

Cline on certain things. there were certain things like the searches that he had attempted to interfere with. parlatore, who said he had left the trump team due to infighting, -- may defending trump more difficult. a trump campaign spokesman said that his assertions were categorically false. it is also worth noting that parlatore hasn't just served on the legal team as a legal counsel. the attorney also testified late last year before the grand jury hearing, hearing on evidence about the classified documents case. what is more, according to a report this week from cnn, officials with the natio...

Said. >> did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right to. >> what do you mean not really? >> not that i could think of. let me just tell you. i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> as his defense attorney, what was your reaction to that answer? not really. >> well i was focusing on the question did you show any classified documents to anybody and he hasn't admitted there were classified documents there. >> well he said that he de classified them with his -- because he had the right to. >> we have no evidence...