Tonight on The Readout.

If you're the president of the United States, you could declassify just by saying it's

declassified, even by thinking about it, because you're sending it to Mar-a-Lago or to

wherever you're sending it.

And there doesn't have to be a process.

There can be a process, but there doesn't have to be.

Yeah, that's what he told Fox, but new reporting tonight indicates prosecutors have in their

possession tape of Trump after he left the White House, acknowledging that he was holding

on to highly sensitive material, which he did not, in fact, declassify.

Also tonight, the latest on the debt ceiling bill, which comes up for a critical house

vote just a short time from now.

The great Lawrence O'Donnell joins me to discuss.

And Marilyn Governor West Moore will be here.

He and other Democratic governors are enacting bold progressive policies that help people,

instead of hurting them.

And that, in sharp contrast, to the Republicans.

But we begin tonight with new reporting on the Special Counsel's investigation into Donald

Trump's handling of classified documents that seem to undercut Trump's longstanding defense

in the matter.

Just to say, I had every right to do it.

I didn't make a secret of it.

You know, the boxes were stationed outside of the White House.

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