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Documents. those last two points, take those on for us. >> sure, the vice president of the united states is not commander-in-chief and the law as it relates to declassification authority, the president of the united states, he can wave a magic wand, he can in the dark, silently to himself declare a document declassified. it's a horrifying practice and legal reality especially for our nation's secrets. you can take that up with article two, the constitution. as far as the vice president goes, unless the vice president was the one who was the originating declassification authority many he made t...

All of these facts that are extremely damning for the former president, yasmin. >> what do you make about this detail, ryan? right? in which for the last couple weeks the forrer president's team along with the former president have said i essentially did a blanket declassification of documents in my possession. that argument wasn't made in the rebuttal yesterday evening, as i spoke about when i came to my panel here. and so far as the former president's team also went on to say that -- the special master should have top-secret security clearance. why would he need that if all of these document...

Their home searched? did they get subpoenas for their search warrants? the answer is we don't have the foggiest idea. now let's go to the constitution because i want to try and educate the attorney generalec t, the united states article two, section one , the executive power shall be vested in a president of the united states . this is why the president can classify and declassify at will . he doesn't answer to the fbi department of justice as somece bureaucrat a with a regulation who says no, no, he can't declassify till he fills out his paperwork and hits all the boxes. he's the executivevet...

Been collecting intelligence in bulk and some has been american's data. they have been sifkt it in ways that raise some real concerns about privacy and civil liberties. now the cia is saying they can't declassify either the report, itself, or information about the underlying intelligence programs, themselves, because it would damage sources and methods, the crown jewels by which the cia goes about dock its business. what we have is allegations from two law makers. i want to read you part of what they are saying. they have said that this report shows that the cia has secretly conducted its own ...

Has. and there have been times when congress has gone after the fbi and investigated it. but this is the first time that both branches have gone at it at the same time. so what we're watching now is a real test of the strength of that fine institution. i would also -- i'd like to point out that during the watergate era, president nixon did engage in selective declassification in order to defend himself. it was wrong then, and it's equally wrong now. there's a real problem for the fbi, let alone the democrats in congress. how does the fbi defend itself? the fisa application process is highly se...