and i don't think anybody who's ever worked in any white house has seen anything like it. i mean, the whieda president could look in the mirror and ordain that documents -- top secret documents are no longer secret, throw it in his bag with his snow globes and other souvenirs and haul it off to his home after he leaves office and store them in his basement is absurd on the face of it. and there's a reason there's a very assiduous kind of classification process, or declassification process, because there are national security implications to documents that are highly classified. now, there are cases of overclassification, and there are cases in which something that should have been classified at one point should no longer be classified. you know, that is -- so these things go -- these discussions go on all the time. but the idea that a president can by fiat do it -- but don, this goes to the larger issue about donald trump. he believed and he said when he was president, you remember this, that his power was absolute and that he -- that the rules don't apply to him. and that runs -- that's th