So can a president really declassify documents just by thinking about it?

The lead starts right now.

A defiant Donald Trump pushing back the former president is insisting he had the power

to declassify documents seized from his Mar-a-Lago home just by thinking about it.

But did he plus a revolt in Russia long lines to leave as Putin tries to ramp up his war

in Ukraine?

The Kremlin punishing protesters forcing some to fight and the very war they went to stop.

And a crisis of democracies the warning to the world from Prince President Emmanuel Macron,

his exclusive US interview with Jake Tapper, as he also weighs in on his name being wrapped

up in Trump's Mar-a-Lago case.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper, and we begin with our

politics lead.

And just in, the special master in the Trump Mar-a-Lago documents case opens the door to hearing

witness testimony.

This coming after yet another legal defeat for former President Donald Trump.

Three judges from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reverse district judge Aileen

Cannon's decision on some of the documents recovered from Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

That three judge panel, one Obama and two Trump appointees, ruled the Justice Department

can resume its criminal probe of the classified records.

A special master's review of that subset of about 100 records is now partially stopped

after Judge Cannon amended her ruling today.

And just a short time ago, the special master delivered a new order to Trump's legal team

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