Does the President Declassify the Documents?

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Donald Trump is demanding that the Department release to him and to the public, the underlying evidence and justification for the search at his Mar-a-Lago residence. He has argued that Barack Obama also retained classified information. There's no public evidence of him having declassified this stuff. What are the odds, Zach, that Donald Trump will be charged with something? What are you hearing? Nobody knows.

The Justice Department is investigating Donald Trump, but the ex-president's still-large base likely won’t want him prosecuted under any circumstances. Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains the ongoing fallout from the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and edited by Amina Al-Sadi and Noel King, who also hosted.

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