joining us former federal prosecutor andrew cherkasky, new york columnist jon levine. , gentlemen. andrew, first to you, the president has the authority to declassify any top secret files. he can declassify to say this is what i talk from the obama white house to my home and think tank. doesn't he want to prove he has nothing to hide? >> well president biden keeps talking about how transparent he wants to be, but at this point he is acting more like a criminal defendant than the president who is trying to make us all believe he is forthright what is going on here. in fact we have seen week after week after this point more and more information slowly come out and the white house continue to stop the press corps from asking these tough questions. there are tough questions that need to be answered, like how did these documents get out of president biden's, vice president bide's control back then? where was it during the time that president trump was in office? what's been going on through all of this? what ultimately led to the slow drip of information that came out over t