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Here’s why the defense asserted by Trump's team—that while in office Trump issued “standing orders” that any “documents removed from the Oval Office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them”—is nothing short of absurd and laughable.
And one year ago today, Kabul fell to the Taliban.
Did that. so there is a lot of back and forth. and presidents can declassify information and he said he did declassify information. does this warrant an unprecedented action that has never before happened in our country's history and still not explained days later by the department of justice. >> sandra: we did get the statement from a.g. garland yesterday but not a clear explanation to what spurred all of this. as we learn more details and the timing coming into question, we know the judge signed off on this warrant on august 5th, it gave the fbi authority to conduct the search or raid or wha...
Declassify information. >> yes. >> so clearly this is trying to hide information. and i think the reason that someone would do -- >> brianna, i don't want to say clearly. i don't know what his motive is. >> i understand you're not saying that, maggie. but this is highly unusual. and this would have the effect of obscuring the information that was on those papers. i think it's important, maggie, as you know from covering him so long, he has an information from trying to hide information, classified information. this is something he has done over and over again. >> this is not somebody for whom ...
Prosecuted against hillary clinton, to the extent that there was any exposure other than poor document retention policy, was that, there was classified information which she done and we should note here, as president, you can control classification, you can do which one with. that's not sure of ex presidents, correct? >> that's correct. as a president, you're right, you have broad latitude to declassify information. we are seeing that right now with the biden administration, they are declassifying documents about russia and ukraine and a strategic way. as a former president, you do not have th...