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>> it's exactly as you say, nicolle. these documents have the potential to reveal exactly what president trump knew at the time those documents were taken from the white house and removed to mar-a-lago. as he has said repeatedly, the president can simply declassify things by thinking about them. but these letters show in fact he was advised, that there was an actual process of declassifying certain materials, that there were particular processes for certain kinds of materials. and the national archivist had told them and advised them how to do this. he had knowledge of this process. he knew he...

The end of the probe. we know from other reporting from our team, based on the loose ends they're tying up, that they're likely in the final stage of this investigation. it's unclear when the final report would be submitted. >> the special counsel seems to be honing in on whether trump knew the declassification process, the actual one, not the fake one. >> the issue for the special counsel and for the justice dps in all of these cases is to prove intent? every defendant will say i didn't really know that i was breaking the law. in this case, you're dealing with a former president who has this ...

First, oren, headlines out of what we just heard. >> general pat ryder hit home on the point that the u.s. seized this as international air space and the u.s. will continue to operate there with surveillance drones and other assets as it sees fit. the u.s. has every right to do that. brigadier general pat rider hitting home on that point. then asked, why release the video, and he said, the u.s. release videos when it sees fit, after it goes through a declassification process. we were tracking this video as it was moving through that declassification process, essentially. but it also underscore...

Charge that's why you see so many of these female lawmakers there -- >> i have to interrupt you we have to go to the pentagon briefing brigadier general pat ryder who is talking about this collision between the russian aircraft and the american drone. >> did you say that this particular reefer was unarmed? >> i didn't say whether it was or was not i'm going to get into the particular mission profile of this aircraft. it was conducting an isr mission. in terms of the specifics, david, i'm not going to at this point get more specific other than the black sea region in international airspace, wel...

Director of the mixon library told me we now have a tsunami of classified documents, powerpoints and all kinds of stuff all stored somewhere in the cloud. but we still have a tiny staff of people at the national archives for the declassification process. he estimated that it could take five years for a request to declassify a single document to even make it to the agency that has to decide whether to do so. another scholar, matthew connelly of columbia points out that the u.s. government spends $18 billion a year on classifying and protecting information, and just $100 million on de classifica...