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And so this idea that something as sensitive as potential war planning or contingency operations, capabilities against an adversary, its way beyond the average amount of classified. and i think that that -- any person other than a former president, this would be a very different conversation right now. >> how much risk does it pose? because when you hear the audio, theres a lot of laughter. trump is telling someone to bring cokes into the room. but given the gravity of what these documents -- we...

Risk it puts on how we got that information, right? if theres classified information in there, it either speaks to -- you know, weve collected some really sensitive information about iran that you dont want getting out because fern or the way that you collected that way, the sources and methods, you dont want to burn those people or those things. but it also speaks to our capabilities, right? i dont want our adversaries knowing what we can and cannot do, knowing what were planning. that is, to m...

Without wagner at the moment. this doesnt really help, to state the obvious. this doesnt really help russias war fighting capabilities. it also kind of weekends the entire political system. this system works very well when putin can play the role of the arbiter, you have all these different clans, all these different networks, and putin tries to balance them. this clearly got out of hand and it is the weakness in the system and i think putins authority will be diminished going forward and that w...

The white house under extremely classified information, using classified information, that was meant to, you know, explain to the president what would happen in a contingency, should we want to or need to go to war with iran. and i think what is important to remember is when we do this kind of planning, there are capabilities and there are intentions, right? when the military looks at what were capable of, what we can do in a contingency. what intentions come from the white house. what do we wan...

More abortions in the united states because thats the permanent platform, the democrat party. >> she just keeps going about border. i now abortions are i thought the funniest thing about that poll laura, was the fact that she was beaten by darth, a.k.a. dick cheney by 40 points on the net favorability rating. and if youre if youre getting crushed by darth vader, you might have a likability problem just throwing that out. but but think about it. kamala was not chosen. she was bright and likable. ...

An exercise designed to test the united kingdom systems to deal with pandemic influenza and there is obviously ample material to show that you became aware of exercise cygnus and it was an important part of your departmental functions. looking back, are you surprised that, in this more detailed briefing, there was no reference to the fact that just a year before, exercise cygnus had reported and in general terms had found that the plans and capabilities of the united kingdom were not sufficient ...

Hancock, why didnt you say to your civil servants, this was a major exercise into the united kingdoms pandemic preparedness? it was one of the largest command exercises ever held, it made a number of important recommendations, 22 in fact in all, across the whole board of the united kingdoms plans and capabilities — and byjune 2020, after the pandemic had struck, of course, the dhsc had struck, of course, the dhsc acknowledged that of the 22 acknowledged of the 22 recommendations, eight had bee...

Questions about the fact that they do have nuclear capabilities, and instability that were seeing play out in russia, former defense secretary mark esper, thank you for your time and your expertise on that. but also your perspective on the trump stuff as well. thank you very much. >> thanks caitlin. >> up next we will have more on this breaking news, as cnn has now obtained the audio for donald trumps 2020 conversation about classified documents. -- from democratic congressman, and -- stay with ...

Breaking news here of the audio recording of the former president. when you hear on the tape to hear what hes saying, what is your reaction to that? >> my reaction is, its likely a document that was provided to the white house under extremely classified information, using classified information that was meant to explain to the president what would happen in a contingency should we want to, or need to, quote a war with iran. and i think what is important to remember is that when we do this kind o...

Planning for contingency operations, the capabilities against an adversary, its like way beyond the average amount of classified. and i think any person other than a former president, this would be a very different conversation right now. >> how much risk does it pose? because when you hear the audio, theres a lot of laughter. trump is telling someone to bring coax into the room. but given the gravity of what these documents we are told but they are, how much of a threat is that to national secu...