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>> right. you know, we have no evidence to suggest that he showed any classified documents to anyone. and i think it was something where he got caught on the spot and gave maybe an inartful answer. ultimately, we have no evidence that he thoed showed classified documents to anybody. >> did you ask him if he showed documents that didn't go through the declassification process to anyone? >> that would not be a discussion -- even if i did have that conversation, ethically i am not allowed to talk about my conversation with him. >> i am a journalist. recovering attorney. as a lawyer, what was it l...

See too often, but when you have a federal employee or of former employee who wants to assert uniquely federal defenses, and i feel trump will, then they are authorized to seek this removal. in other words, we could end up with a lot of different cases in federal court. jack smith, i don't think the special counsel will indict trump in the northern district of georgia, but if you do have multiple cases all in the federal system, it makes coordination much easier. >> i often feel like i am opening my mary poppins bag of trump legal problems, and i have pulled all of them out. let's talk about t...

Of the official process for how to declassify things, which totally makes sense because trump really like sharing classified information when he was in office. remember the time that president trump casually revealed highly classified information to the russian foreign minister during a white house meeting? or the time he tweeted out a highly classified image from a u.s. by satellite? or the time that he had sensitive discussions about north korea with the japanese prime minister in front of a crowd of onlookers at mar-a-lago, remember all that? in retrospect, it should not be all that surpris...

Saying it's the classified, even by thinking about it. >> there does not need to be a process, i can declassify it by when, when i think it's declassified, when i say it's the classified, is, proof. national security experts everywhere found this ridiculous, but trump stuck with the defense. this is what he said at a town hall last week. >> i was there and took what i took, and it gets the classified. let me tell you, i have the absolute right to do whatever i want with them. i have the right. >> tonight, we are learning that trump knew those claims about mental or verbal declassification were...

Leaving the white house. meanwhile, trump has lost a key member of his defense team in this case. timothy parlatore testified before the grand jury in december. his exit comes at a critical time, when the special counsel may be nearing the final stretch in the criminal probe. we do have one of the members who was still on donald trump's team. his name is jim trusty any joins us now. jim trusty, thank you for being here, let's get right into it. as president of the united states, did donald trump know how the declassification process worked, or did he just ignore it? >> well, president trump wa...