Maggie Haberman: Trump said he had set up a system of automatically declassifying documents as president. She says there's no evidence to support this claim, and former officials say they were never briefed on such a system when they came into the government. Haberman: The question of whether these documents were classified or not is actually irrelevant to any potential charges that Trump or people around him could be facing.
Last week, the F.B.I. took the extraordinary step of searching Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and Florida home. Their goal? To find materials he was thought to have improperly removed from the White House, including classified documents.
An inventory of the material taken from the search showed that agents seized 11 sets of documents with some type of confidential or secret marking on them.
We explore some of the latest developments in the case.
Guest: Maggie Haberman, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.
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