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Classified or not, they are documents that belonged to the united states of america. so full stop, no question about it. now, with respect to whether or not he declassified them, there's no evidence that he did so. so yes, the president has authority to declassify information. but there's absolutely zero -- >> and you can't declassify them with your mind? >> there's no evidence he did. that there would've been some -- there would've been some person, some documents, some evidence. >> you have to tell someone. >> it goes back to the intelligence agencies. they begin the process. >> but all that...

Thank you for being with us. mark, let me start with you. you take the view that many smart americans take, that's this government classifies a lot of stuff maybe it shouldn't and thousands across the finalist of that maybe it should. there is gray area here. i talked to former cia director brennan, who agreed there is gray area here. it doesn't fall upon donald trump to make those decisions himself. it's not possible for a former president to declassify information, and it's not possible for a current president, who has the right to declassify information, to do it with his mind. so, there's ...

Excuse that. particularly in some ways because it's so visible. it would be one thing if nobody knew about it. but what kind of signal are we sending to our allies, to our spies around the world if we don't prosecute this? that's how i think jack smith will look at it. >> yeah, to neal's point, it always struck me as completely implausible that for the number of classified documents that they found that he had with him and the excuse being i declassified them all when i took them, that there was -- clearly that was never true. and no one ever thought it was true because there would have been a...