All presidential documents belong to the American public and a president cannot unilaterally claim ownership or declassify them without going through established processes.

“And I want to start by emphasizing that that material belongs to us, belongs to you and me. It, by the Presidential Records Act, it all has to be um go it has to go to the National Archives and Records Administration, also known as NARA, N A R A, which may not come across your horizon all that often”