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and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that -- make sense of that for us? explain that to us. >> well, i'd love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesn't make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have declassified these documents on his way out the door, this rings a little bit too good to be true. an...

Authority to declassify these documents and that he did so. that would be an issue of first impression for any court to consider. there is no statute or regulation that actually prescribed how a president of the united states is supposed to declassifydeclassify material b customarily that's something always handled by a subordinate officer. presumably there ought to be at least some actual process rather than the mere ideation in the president's head, walking around as a declassification authority that he has declassified something. so the department will have to think through all these issues...