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it's caught on video. >> mike: great to be with you, sandra. this is "america reports," happened hours ago in new york. >> sandra: attack lasted nearly 20 seconds before the suspect was stopped. >> mike: all this coming more than 30 years after the ayatollah of iran issued calling for rushdie's death over his book "satanic verses." >> sandra: it all just happened, brian, what are we learning about rushdie's condition at this time? >> we do not know much about his condition. we have not received an update on the condition of the novelist, salman rushdie. set the viewers up, an hour an...

About those documents and they are -- i'm assuming classified has a lot to do with this, that they were not supposed to be removed because their classification. you're assuming when he left he still had the power of the presidency and took those documents. doesn't he also have the power to declassify documents, jonathan? >> he does. i testified on that in congress on this very issue with -- about president trump, when he was still president. he had the ultimate declassification authority that ended when his president ended. they could be arguing that if he did not turn over these documents he ...

Shannon: earlier we had a democratic supporter and attorney who talked about the fact this should go through the director of national intelligence. it said the way the president is doing this is he is allying himself from congressman schiff to make a political move and make sure this gets out. >> we don't elect bureaucrats in this country to control who decides when things are classified or not classified. the president of the united states has the ultimate declassification authority. congress has some power, we use that power when we put the memo out on the fisa abuse. i don't know what these...

>> shannon: what do you make of early on, democratic supporter and attorney and he talked about the fact that this is something that should go through the director of national intelligence, and he says the way the president is doing this, if he is allying himself, as you heard here from the congressman, to make a political move here and to make sure that the information he wants released gets out. >> well, we don't elect bureaucrats in this country to control who decides when things are classified or nonclassified. the president of the united states has the ultimate declassification authority....

President is under control by the russians. >> melissa: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has more from washington. >> in the last hour, we have learned a new information at fox news about the tick-tock of how this process will work. a source close to that process told us the right outcome of the intelligence agencies are taking these records that they will order to be declassified and they're doing their own review so they can come up with recommendations about what needs to be redacted in terms of protecting the sources and methods. i'm told that once i review processes ove...