Mike Davis, a Republican activist who bills himself online as the former Chief Counsel for Nominations at the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, claims that Trump can declassify anything he wants and take them out of the White.
The president of the United States has both the constitutional and statutory power to declassify. If Trump left the White House with classified records, they would be declassified. Davis said the whole thing was over.
That isn't true.
It is not clear if Trump declassified the documents in his possession. The National Archives would probably be more interested in getting their hands on them if he had. Taking them out of the White House doesn't mean they're declassified.
Legal experts who spoke with MSNBC last night said that nuclear secrets still need more than one president to declassify.
There's more than one law that comes into play here. The act deals with atomic energy. Bradley Moss, a national defense lawyer, said that Donald Trump couldn't declassify those records on his own.
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