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Declassification system for those documents. top secret documents that he had at mar-a-lago. so what now? >> well, yes these are 16 documents that i will say also does department subpoena donald trump and his team before that and yet to turn them over, now the national archives according to reporting have told trump's team that we are turning them over to the special counsel looking at the classified documents case. and it's still unclear what's in these documents but the thing that we do know is that it shows like you said, they know that trump might have known what the classify or classifica...

>> tonight we're learning trump knew those claims about mental declassification were bogus because he was told so in writing repeatedly while he was in office. according to cnn the national archives is preparing to give special counsel jack smith 16 records which show trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president, according to multiple sources. nbc news has not independently verified that report, but think about this for a moment. this wasn't someone telling trump after the mar-a-lago raid, mr. president, you can't just declassify recor...

China and a threat to taiwan, invasion of taiwan are driving regional actors here and allies, china will be on the agenda over the course of the coming days as the president handles international diplomacy and a real domestic problem back home. kate? >> great to have you there, phil. thank you so much. sara? cnn exclusive reporting now. multiple sources telling cnn the national archives found 16 records which show donald trump and his top advisers had knowledge of the correct declassification process while he was president. trump has previously claimed he could declassify papers by removing ...

We now know yesterday the archives sent the trump team a letter that basically said, sorry, these 16 records are on their way to jack smith, which is a problematic development for trump and his defense team and comes at a time when their legal problems are mounting. yesterday a top lawyer from his mar-a-lago legal team said he would be stepping down but claims his departure has nlg to do with the underlying case. joining us now is national security lawyer mark zade and charlie savidge. mark, let me start with you. in terms of the legal implications of all of this, what does trump's awareness m...

Obstruction. national security attorney mark zaid making that point last night in light of brand-new reporting on new evidence that could potentially strengthen special counsel jack smith's case into trump's mishandling of classified documents. cnn is reporting that the national archives told the ex-president that it has 16 records that the archives are going toe hand over to special counsel jack smith that show that trump knew about the correct declassification process. quote, in a may 16th letter, acting archivist deborah wall writes to trump, quote, the 16 records in question all reflect co...