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With all this swirling around different legal analysts out there, let me see if I can make some sense and bring some context to what's taking place.

The key here first is the Presidential Records Act. Past in 1978, it's been amended since.

Prior to that, presidents could own the documents, the property that they had and so forth.

Now, you know, when this first was revealed two and a half weeks ago, this search warrant everybody was talking about the espionage.

And then there was a leak to the New York Times, Maggett Haberman and her cohorts that the president had 300 classified documents.

Then the argument was, well, did he classify them? Trump people said he had a standing order on classifying them.

He said, no, we don't buy that. We don't buy that. He had to fill out something. He had to do something, didn't he?

No. Since you came up in May 15, 2017, political fact is a left-wing, unreliable operation, but nonetheless.

Unreliable if you're conservative, reliable if you're a leftist. In other words, in my view, they're very, very partisan.

So when they come to the conclusion that a president has a right, the class of higher declassify, that's a big issue.

They refer to a blockbuster article in the Washington Post, 2017, saying President Trump had revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting.

Didn't just put the White House on the defense, it also put Republican lawmakers on the defense. They write.

One of the members of Congress who commented after the newspaper's revelations was Senator Rish, Republican Idaho.

According to CNN, he told reporters the minute the president, choose me. The minute the president speaks about it to someone, he has the ability to declassify anything at any time without any process.

Is that accurate? Independent experts said, Rish is on target concerning the legal powers of the president. Some experts had it, however, the Senator's formulation left out some context that is relevant.

Experts agreed the president is commander chief is ultimately responsible for classification and declassification.

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