'No, no, and no': Watergate lawyer destroys Trump's latest claims in docs case

Former President Donald Trump is still lying about how he handled classified information and the powers he had over it as an ex-president, Watergate lawyer Jill Wine-Banks told MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday.

This comes after a day of whirlwind activity in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case, which saw Judge Aileen Cannon block the Trump legal team's bid to try to issue a mega-filing potentially full of unexplored defense theories.

"Part of what he's trying to do with his audience — and they love it — saying he committed no crimes because everything he did he was allowed to do, had total immunity to do," said Reid. "Here he is talking about one of the most obvious crimes, taking the classified documents. Here he is talking about that."

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"First of all, I didn't have to hand them over. Second of all, I would have done that. We were talking and then all of a sudden they raided Mar-a-Lago," said Trump in the clip. "They said, could you put an extra lock on the door. We showed them where they were. We showed them."

"No, no and no," said Wine-Banks. "He said three things there, all of which are false. They put a new lock in, they hid things, they moved things. Then they tried to destroy the videotape of them moving things. He did not have a right to move them. He had no right to retain them. He makes a comparison to Bill Clinton, who kept diaries. So did Richard Nixon. Those are things that are personal and a president can keep. But all other presidential documents are not to be kept by the former occupant. They aren't intended for that."

"It's such clear law," she added. "The Presidential Records Act was a result of Richard Nixon. It makes it very clear that they are government documents and must be left in the care of the National Archives, not taken as personal possessions."

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