"There was no standing order. I was not briefed on anything like that."
"I just think it`s a complete fiction."
"it was a complete fiction."
"Absolutely. It makes no sense whatsoever."
"When you declassify a document, it wouldn't be declassified just as to Donald Trump, the entire government would have it declassified."
"I think they're going to be overwhelmed by the kind of emotions that Trump has stirred up."
"I'd urge the Justice Department and it goes against the grain to be creative on this."
"He liked cool things. He saw things that he -- so he wanted to take them and he was pretty much able to take them and not just on classified information matters, on all kinds of things that crossed hi..."
"The President had a habit of asking to retain sensitive documents. And from time to time, he did that and we didn`t know what happened to them."
"I think that claim is almost certainly a lie. I was never aware of anything even remotely approximating that policy and I haven't heard anything of it since I left. So I think this is made up and I th..."
"When a document is declassified, it`s not just declassified as to Donald Trump. It`s declassified for the whole world."
"If I had to give any advice to my fellow Republicans, it would be chill out here and wait for the facts, because the facts may turn out not to be what Donald Trump said they were at first that that ha..."