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One. >> joining us now is john mclaughlin, our national security analyst and former acting director of the cia. it is a real pleasure to have you on today. >> great to see you. >> you have the job she currently has and shes going for the top gig. sa sara ra -- sarah sanders quoted you yesterday. we know where you stand. people say the cia is hiding behind the classification process and theyve selectively declassified the record to show the good parts and not the bad. >> these are always tough ca...

Happens, if you need to remember something, well, you write it down. and it strikes me that the conversations that jim comey had with the president were memorable. and im glad he wrote them down. >> another aspect this has to do with the classification process of this. it was i have to say as a journalist, feeling truly like a fly on the wall i was intrigued by then director comeys sort of speculative nature at the top there. for now im just going to choose secret for the classification, and per...

Known as orejones which means big areas, so well see tattoos of an actual ear somewhere on their body, or a playboy bunny, if you know how to read the tattoos you find out this guys a member. >> gang inspectors like officers rodriguez and rocha identified thousands of gang members, no system is perfect. neither is shooting lockup "extended stay". >> when shooting "extended stay", you will shoot for several weeks, and youll be down a week or so and then come back. we shot our first couple of week...

General relative to temporary classifications. clearly with the new administration in particular were trying to fill a lot of new slots and the classification process and security clearance process has been mentioned. >> im only speaking with regard to folks who may have had issues raised as opposed to being in the matter of course of going through the long process. >> well, im not in a position -- we can talk about this in the classified session, but im not in a position to discuss what individ...

Classifications. clearly with the new administration in particular were trying to fail lot of new slots. and the classification process and security clearance process has been mentioned. >> yeah. im only speaking with regard to folks of issues raised opposed to just being in the matter of course of going through a long process. >> well, im not in a position and we can talk about this in the classified session but im not in the position to discuss what individual situations are for specified indi...

About or fails to investigate. >> the top democrat on the committee says the memo was not meant to help the investigation, but rather to hurt it. listen. >> the goal was simply to get a misleading piece of information before the public, help support the president, help discredit the mueller investigation and the fbi, help the white house. thats all thats going on here. >> adam schiff there. he called the memo a reckless abuse of the classification process and will result in long lasting damage. ...

He may be right for different reasons than somebody else would have. this is a political argument. whats happened is that what is normally a pretty objective and decent system, the classification process, has deteriorated into almost a shouting match, and thats not good for the country and its not good for the intelligence world. >> sure. why not go through the regular process? why not hear the fbi? why not hold off on doing this if the intel chiefs dont want this out? >> fine to hear the fbi, b...

Doing will be very long last go. why should the fbi and the intelligence committee trust our community or congress with sensitive or classified information if they think were on a party line information, going to vote to cherry pick and disclose parts of it. it is a completely reckless abuse of the classification process. and one other thing ill say, this house rule that they used has never been used before. and it contemplates, it gives the president five days to review and veto this. it contem...

And what does it tell you that the white house is not going to heed their warnings? >> hopefully, john, what it tells us is they believe the type of material thats in that memo should remain classified, should not be released to the public because it may reveal sources and methods which is the main purpose of classifying documents in the first place. however, the classification process in general is not supposed to be used merely to classified information which may be embarrassing. and thats the...

Exposing security, something they called extraordinary reckless. thats exactly what it would be. it would mean that the pret prettization of the classification process to protect the white house even when the tea party leaders admitted they discussed it with the president and sure the president would concur because the spin memo was so good for the president. >> congressman, thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. more breaking news in the situation room. the white house revealed pr...