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That he knowingly violated the law. we have a lot of evidence to suggest he was on notice for a couple of these things. there is two big criminal statutes on point here. we talked about the presidential records act. put that aside. criminal law, there is one on actually the destruction of federal property, we know that is potentially on the table here. again it would require him to knowingly break the law. the second one is the mishandling of classified information. and that one is interesting because as the president, he has the ultimate classification authority. he's the commander in chief. ...

These were documents created under him. what exactly that means in the context of potential criminal probe although i should point out during the trump administration mishandling of classified information was a frequent attack that trump had against his political opponents. >> of course we all know how the campaign went with hillary clinton on that and he is the ultimate classification authority. the question is did he declassify any of this before he took it out of the white house. a lot of unanswered questions there. this one time trade advisor peter navarro, the latest aide to be subpoenaed...

Access to the president is going to have enemies and rivals and people who dislike her. that's unfortunate, but it's part of the job. >> i want to get your reaction to tweeting out what experts say most certainly is an image of a satellite or drone showing the aftermath of that accident. betsy, is this something the president can share without the association of his aides? >> the president has the ultimate classification authority. anything the press has access to the president has the legal authority to share with the public. the problem is there's too much classification when it comes to nat...

Shocked? we have the public comments from trump. the verasty of those comments being called into question by this reporting. but in terms of the law, the procedure, has the power toishau a security clearance. >> the president is the ultimate classification authority. he can decide who sees what information. the real challenge is presidents have always looked out for the national interest and tried to prevent people who could be compromised from having access to that information and they're very concerned about leaks. about people who take it on to themselves to take that information out there ...

Chance of going anywhere in a republican controlled senate. >> exactly. it's political stunt obviously on their side. what it really is is the president is the ultimate classification authority. any information in the united states government, he can declassify or classify at his request. there's a reason that we've invested our commander-in-chief with such broad-based authority. now, you know, the president's critics are saying that he is silencing john brennan here, but as we saw, you know, john brennan came out and wrote an op-ed in the new york times, and i think he's done more national te...