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Documents are not going to be shown to the public who are sitting there. and to the members of the press who will be there. how does that complicate efforts to ensure transparency? could opening up the trial pose a national security risk? >> it definitely could, ayman. theres gonna be a lot of discussions, as you can see from the day men, as it was quite detailed, that about plans that relate to specific countries. as much as they were redacted, anyone can figure out what countries those were, j...

So there are specific references in there, really trying to prove the point of different classification levels, you can see in terms of the discussion how serious it was. so the prosecutors were, you know, balancing how much do we reveal in terms of the indictment, to really emphasize how much was a risk? how high of a security clearance was really needed for these documents? at the same time, theyre trying to redact as much as possible. theyve got a, i think a really tough challenge. how to des...

Democrats. look at what is going on with president biden. you have what chuck grassley is saying about the burisma executive is alleging to have paid him $5 million. hunter biden another 5 million. he apparently has the 17 audio recordings of conversations, two of them with the president. how do you feel about that? should he be concerned? do you believe these allegations? >> i do. and i think, again, the same thing we are going to dig. in chairman c keith o comer areo dig in the paint. >> carle...

Lawyer gary stern sought the intervention of another trump attorney. that fall a top official in trumps orbit says they were concerned and warned people not to touch the boxes out of fear that sensitive material could be exposed to those without the proper clearance. >> were talking about documents at all of the classification levels. some of them are confidential. some of them are secret. and then there are some that are top secret. and these are documents that relate to the u.s. national defen...

In which i asked you earlier, elliot, will a jury ever see them if theyre classified? can you show it to them? >> the other panel in d.c. was talking about its incredibly complicated and would have to be a ton of litigation over that. whats interesting about mr. grenells tweet, very rarely would you see a sort of a broadside attack on the substantive of an indictment. what usually youd be more likely to see at trial is just making the intent argument that he didnt intend to do the things he said...

There is no suggestion that trump was showing this off to people, that he was sharing the document with folks, that he simply had it, labeled as secret in terms of the classification levels, not classified, not top secret, but secret? just broadly, tell us what the espionage act is. what kind of charge would that mean in penalty if you carry it as the former president? >> sure. lets remember, government documents, whether classified or not, belong to the government. theyre not to be retained by ...

Enforcement of need-to-know was a very clear parameters around how you handle, print, touch documents of various different classification levels. so here were seeing, you know, questions related to inconsistencies between areas, be it in different intelligence agencies or in consistencies in how someone is moving from a cleared position, you know, receiving a clearance, into a position where theyre utilizing or not utilizing that clearance. so really across the board, there needs to be a full re...

Documents. its pretty surreal to look at these documents fred because they appear to be photos that someone took of crinkled up pieces of paper and those pieces of paper that hold this information on the many of them hold top classification levels. markings of top secret on them. some of them also had the markings of the joint chief, which is the office at the pentagon that advises president biden now, of course, we dont know the source of these leaked documents. doj as you said, has opened this...

To do with it the easiest course is to check the classified box on the document print that creates a problem as we have seen where your ending and administration trying to figure out which documents you can move what you cant so many are classified. classification levels can shift its very, very confusing. we need to evaluate how to classified documents in the united states government. >> who seem safe to say it with joe biden or even vice president pence or maybe donald trump i cannot see charg...

That were found there. we dont know how many documents of classification levels were found in this batch. but obviously what this does is it raises more questions. are there other documents? and certainly among the questions that you hear, you know, people at the justice department in the fbi who have, which is are there possible other classified documents at other locations? because we know, obviously, its been a number of years since joe biden left the vice presidency. so, we dont know whether...