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Told is when it was turned over in the original 15 boxes back to the national archives before trump got a subpoena for the rest of the documents they have. >> when the original indictment came out, one of the questions was did he really show the document to the people who were in the room at the time? and the original indictment, it really was hard just as a reader to know whether that was the case or whether he was just bluffing in the moment. and so now that the indictment is actually -- the document is actually referenced in the new superseding indictment, that indicates that the justice de...

Contributing evidence to the indictment against himself. >> what i'm hearing is this is making people nervous, people that work at mar-a-lago or work in the former president's inner circle are asking questions about who else could be talking and what they're saying. >> absolutely. that would make the entire staff quite nervous at this point. i think it's really interesting to see at this point with these -- with him being added as a codefendant here, a lot of people are wondering where that's going to increase the pressure on him in order to plead guilty or cut a deal now. i don't think so. it...

Why they continue to charge. but i do think that there's one thing i find beneficial to trump here, which is that the document they're now charging, so this iran war document, is something that he returned to the department of justice. and that, i think, was the most damning statement that jack smith had, which is that he thought that war document was classified. it turns out he returned that classified document. that opens up the argument that you could say the remaining documents he had, those are the ones he was claiming he declassified. >> he never used the defense he turned that document ...

Was. the other possibility is that the intelligence community finally agreed to be able to let the justice department have the authorization to use it. these are just theories. our reporting will bear out which one turns out to be true or if it was some other circumstance. >> it's just remarkable because paula and i have been trying to track this document and its origins down for weeks, if not months now. and we were kind of being told by sources, maybe it never existed. maybe it was just a paper dinner menu or whatever he could have been holding. now it's made clear, that's not what it was. >...

Saying. >> absolutely. that would make the entire staff quite nervous to this point. i think it is really interesting to see at this point with him being added as a co-defendant here, a lot of people are wondering if that will increase the pressure on him to plead guilty or cut a deal. i really don't think so. it is too late in the day for that. the time they would've done that is way earlier. they are committed to this course, that is not happening. >> i think that is interesting. the other thing that we have learned today is about that document. the other revelation is that he was not charge...