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Not on the cover of time magazine in march of 2009 but he had been hanging fake magazine covers in his golf clubs to make it look likeve he was. just to be clear here, trump wanted so badly to be on the cover of time magazine that he invented a fake time cover all about himself and hung it up in public, in multiple places all over the country. that forgotten little detail from trump's presidency became relevant again today after the department of justice issued its latestrt court filing in the ongoing courtil battle over accs to the fbi search at mar-a-lago. the filing included this shocking p...

Substantive assessment of the level of damage that this information can do to national security. it's quite -- it's, frankly, probably not possible for a single person, particularly the president, to actually make that assessment on his own. that's why they, in the declassification process, you bring in the agencies that have equities, who really understand what the consequences and ramifications would be of disclosing this information. so, really, what, you know, this -- this claim that he declassified is basically saying, well, i made the judgment call that these don't damage national securi...

Impeachment. if there were a blanket sort of declassification order in place, why would any of us have worried about declassifying the transcript with ukraine? >> when you say there was a process for declassifying it with zelenskyy, how complicated was that process? >> you know, it wasn't complicated. it was just real. it was formal. there were things to do. there was a paper trail to lay out. and there was -- just like everything that happens in the white house, nothing sort of just happens by magic. there are rules that govern how we handle documents. we all knew these rules. the staff secre...

Order to declassify all documents he took out of the oval office are ludicrous, ridiculous, and b.s. i don't have to say it again, do i? joining me now, cnn special correspondent jamie gangel and cnn senior political commentator david axelrod. hello to both of you. thanks for joining. jamie, you spoke to these 18 top trump officials. they're calling this standing order patently false. and some even laughed at the idea of it. >> they laughed at it. they scoffed at it. and they did call b.s. don, these were former white house officials, national security, intelligence, justice department. this i...

Classification process, or declassification process, because there are national security implications to documents that are highly classified. now, there are cases of overclassification, and there are cases in which something that should have been classified at one point should no longer be classified. you know, that is -- so these things go -- these discussions go on all the time. but the idea that a president can by fiat do it -- but don, this goes to the larger issue about donald trump. he believed and he said when he was president, you remember this, that his power was absolute and that he...