Hi everyone it is 4 o'clock here in Washington DC I'm Elie C. I'm

Elie C. I'm Elie C. Menendez in for Nicole Wallace. It is brazen even by

the standards of team Trump.

Attorneys for the ex-president are pushing to dismiss the charges

brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith in the classified documents case.

They filed multiple motions last night, seven in total.

One of them argues that the appointment of Jack Smith was unconstitutional.

Another one says that Trump had the right to claim that the documents were personal and therefore

they no longer belong to the government.

Worth remembering that the documents were talking about contained some of the most sensitive national

security secrets imaginable.

And Trump kept them in a bathroom. national security secrets imaginable.

And Trump kept them in a bathroom, in a basement,

in a ballroom even.

But arguably, the most brazen of the arguments

the ex-president is making and trying

to dismiss the classified documents case is this.

Attorneys claim that Donald Trump is immune from prosecution because he moved the documents

from the White House to Moralago while he was president.

They say, quote, President Trump's decision to designate records as personal and cause them

to be removed from the White House plainly constitutes an official act within the outer perimeter of the

president's official duties. President Trump is entitled to immunity for this

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