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>> how does -- i mean, it seems like a book report and ibook you havent read. >> thats exactly what it is. >> how could you even write a thing? >> the memo itself is basically a political document. its a partisan document. and for whatever reason, devin nunes has decided to make his career a sacrifice fly for donald trump. thats exactly what hes doing. and for the white house and you know, i think when the memo comes out youll have folks on fox news and breitbart who will make the kind deal abou...

Read the source material? >> yeah. >> how does -- i mean, it seems like a book report and ibook you havent read. >> thats exactly what it is. >> how could you even write a thing? >> the memo itself is basically a political document. its a partisan document. and for whatever reason, devin nunes has decided to make his career a sacrifice fly for donald trump. thats exactly what hes doing. and for the white house and you know, i think when the memo comes out youll have folks on fox news and breitba...

E-mail investigation. >> harris: intelligence people ive talked about say the information is either born or not or classified. she may say i didnt mow it was classified is different can than the secretary of state knowing it is classified whether you mark it or not, it is what it is. >> she has original classification authority, shes responsible for classifying material if she brings it and taking steps to secure material that may have caused information. we have information she ignored warnings...

Is it the presidents position that he can at any time declassify anything he chooses? he tweeted this morning he has the absolute right to talk to the russians about whatever he wants to. is that what hes saying there, that he can declassify anything? >> several issues. one is he can obviously -- there is information that is shared with countries all the time on common threats or common areas of interest. then there is a second question that you are asking which is classification authority. my i...

Probably all they have to run with, because the facts seem like theyre so strong against him, theyre going to say look, this is a low level enlisted soldier, he has absolutely no classification authority, what right does he possibly have to decide what information should and should not be classified, and what kind of precedent does that set. if we let government employees start saying i dont think this should be classified, i think this is covering up a wrong, im going to leak this to wickileak,...

Richman. asked him to get the substance of it to the media.to separately, i wrote a bunch of memos about my interactions with president trump and i was what was called an original classification authority at the fbi, meaning i had the training and authority to make decisions about what should be classified, what shouldnt.he some of these memos i decided should be classified. for others, i wrote them, and i was confident they should not be classified. those four, i kept a copy at the fbi and in m...

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Unclassified, still unclassified. to my friend dan richman. asked him to get the substance of it to the media. i wrote a bunch of memos about my interactions with president trump and i was what was called an original classification authority at the fbi meaning i had the training and authority to make decisions about what should be classified, what shouldnt. some of these memos i decided should be classified. for others, i wrote them, and i was confident they should not be classified. those four,...