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That includes this. 18 top trump officials say they have never heard of such an issue. they believe it to be false. one senior administration straiter called it bull shit. forgive my language. >> where the president is correct is that -- we should all agree is president has broad authority to declassify documents, and he should. hes the president of the united states. a couple of thing, one, documents rery on each other for their classification levels, so if he declassifies it today, what about ...

Democratic sovereignty or stadiumize the elections and would respond. The bottom line is i told President Putin we need some basic rules of the road that we can abide by. Those comments on the heels of a solo Press Conference of Vladimir Putin who noted the 180degree reversal and described talks as constructive but needled the u. S. He compared his repression of dissidents there to the treatment of the insurrectionists that stormed the capitol. The summit and the remarks by biden a striking cont...

As soon as says youre done and then pass it by this guy and then all hell breaks loose thats the clue we are outside the process and so i think thats what merrick garlands doj is looking at but at the heart of this question is the question of accountability because well find this stuff out and in the bolton example find out that someone at the white house grabbed it away from the career professionals and made stuff up about classification levels and someone at the doj went along with the filing ...

Classified documents. www.shutterstock.comBefore coming to academia, I worked for many years as an analyst at both the State Department and the Department of Defense. I held a top secret clearance, frequently worked with classified information and participated in classified meetings. Classified information is that which a government or agency deems sensitive enough to national security that access to it must be controlled and restricted. For example, I dealt with information related to weapons o...

>> and to what degree, i guess we dont know this if we dont know whats in it, but what is the white house in your opinion or your understanding able to edit or restrict the release of? >> thats exactly right. thats a great point. theyre not able to edit the content of the mueller report. what they will have a say in, presumably, is what gets sent over to congress because they will be able to claim executive privilege or may make claims of executive privilege on some things, and there will also b...

Election or protect our civil liberties isnt one we should want or should have question. alexis? >> can i just ask three basic kind of factual follow-up questions? youve used two phrases here today. one is politically sensitive information and the other is classified information when youre talking about what the president believes was released. because you said yesterday that you yourself had not seen the information, and thats my understanding as of today, are those terms interchangeable or are...

Comment on validating or authenticating allegations of this sort in terms of u.s. government policy. i will say that the president obviously feels deeply concerned about anybody, any individual that seeks to undermine the national security of our countr country. i want to stay within my purview here, but i do think i would check with the department of justice in particular about if a program or piece of information is classified, it remains classified regardless of whether or not it is released ...

To the statement that we dont comment on validating or authenticating allegations of this sort as a u.s. government -- in terms of u.s. government policy. i will say that, you know, the president obviously feels deeply concerned about anybody, an individual, anybody that seeks to undermine the national security of our country. i dont want to, as -- stay within my purview here, but i do think that i would check with the department of justice in particular about if a program or a piece of informat...

It is underway in contrast to the house intelligence committee which just last week agreed on their charter. importantly, in the case of the senate intelligence committee, this appears to be a truly bipartisan effort. so i think that needs to play out. if for some reason that proves to not be satisfactory, then perhaps then move on to a special prosecutor. >> "the new york times" earlier this week, as i was introducing this idea they left a trail, maybe lowered classification. can you walk us th...

Brooke, i assume youre asking me that question? >> yes, sir. >> thats very concerning only because of the nature of the nukes, the triad that we have. those capabilities are pronounced, well guarded, highest classification levels, the training of our nuke force is phenomenal, the air force and navy do that exceptionally well. it concerns me that our president-elect would do that. >> major general spider marks, barbara starr, thank you both so very much. -- we do have breaking news into cnn. dona...