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Moral win for garland's approach. he's very modest. they took a very sharp scaled back approach. they didn't engage in hyperbole. they didn't engage in a full frontal attack and it certainly did not work with judge cannon, but with these appellate judges, garr lapped himself, former appeals judge, the judge's judge talking to them and that approach seems to have worked very well and resonated with the circuit. >> you know, john miller, we all just heard the former president of the united states claim he could declassify top secret documents simply by thinking about it, his quote, by thinking a...

Back to whatever department they came from and ask if they are classified or not and how long do you think that could possibly take if he indeed would take that step? >> well there would certainly be a paper trail. there's a number and attached to every report. but i think the judges point is correct. the evidence is the documents themselves. there's no changes, no corrections, nothing done to redact any information to point out that they be declassified. but indeed, there would be a paper trail because all those reports would have to be recalled by whoever issued those reports. and they would...

His lawyers couldn't find those people? what are the chance this any of that is true -- chance that any of this it true? >> zero chance, i think. number one, a president could initiate a declassification process, but it is the originating agency that has to do that. and they do it after investigating to make sure that sources, lives won't be endangered by declassifying, that programs won't be compromised. you don't just wave a magic wand and say i hereby declassify these documents. you'll notice what the lawyers say in briefs is not that donald trump has declassified documents. what they've sa...

That forgotten little detail from trump's presidency became relevant again today, after the department of justice issued its latest court filing in the ongoing court battle over ongoing access to the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking picture showing top secret and classified documents that the fbi found during that search, documents clearly labeled, top secret and sci for sensitive compartment and permission. as experts noted, none of the documents spare markings to indicate that they have been declassified. it is a typical part of the declassification process. but th...

Indicate that they have been declassified. it is a typical part of the declassification process. but those documents are also sitting alongside what appears to be, drumroll please, a box with the framed time magazine cover, everyone this time, featuring trump when he was president. now we don't know for sure why the fbi placed the documents next to the box of the framed time cover. maybe trump's filing system is alphabetical. t for time magazine and also tea for top secret. who can no? but what is clear from this photo is that donald trump kept some of our nation's most important secrets along...