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And the consciousness that the daughter is talking about, and it is a top ig of debate and national security community talking about issues of overclassification, and whether the current classification system needs information sharing as well as information secrecy, and so it being a bipartisan problem means it is possible that you could see meaningful reform, but as francesca said, it is not clear if it is coming from the national level. >> if you could standby, because we have breaking news ju...

Though it doesnt change the larger point. given how crazy the classification system is, the wonder is that we dont find more top secret documents littered throughout the houses of government officials. in 1998, then senator daniel patrick moynahan, who served on the select committee wrote a book titled "secrecy, the american experience." in it he lamented the rise of culture of secrecy in american government which he believed was bad for foreign policy and dangerous to democracy. on the first po...

Documents and defied direct requests from the justice department. that is an important difference. though it doesnt change the larger point. given how crazy the classification system is, the wonder is that we dont find more top secret documents littered throughout the houses of government officials. in 1998, then senator daniel patrick moynahan, who served on the select committee wrote a book titled "secrecy, the american experience." and he lamenting the rise of culture of secrecy in american g...

Whereas in the case of donald trump, they knew and they asked for them. they asked nicely, the negotiated, and there was a subpoena, and then there was a search warrant. and none of that was necessary in these other circumstances. so in terms of the law and in terms of what is a prosecutable case, one is, and two so far are not. >> right. the fact that we are talking about pence, and biden, lawmakers from both parties want to reform the classification system. take a listen. >> what is going on a...

Director of national intelligence couldnt tell them more about the documents in a closed hearing. were getting a fresh sound bite from arvil haynes about issues that she has with over classification. >> first, we need to continue working on the development of a system that develops the appropriate classification system and minimizes what is classified as an initial matter. second we need to facilitate the down grading and declassification of information as it ages to promote sharing and disclosu...

Its not shocking to me that many of them have classified material. is it to you? >> now, its not shocking. and its not just former government officials, its current ones as well who are using these documents just in the regular course of business. they may have to work at home, may have family demands, they may have traveled that puts them away from a classified systems and facilities i mean secure systems and facilities that theyre supposed to use for classified documents. were learning that ac...

There are some in my bookshelf. theres nothing like that. shouldnt there be some record? again, particularly pertaining to one of the points to make here, there are classified and really classified. theres a huge system. it does seem like some of the trump stuff is way up that chain a very secret. >> thats true -- >> but you would also think there would be a record. >> you would think there would be a record, and its also true that maybe the stuff trumpet was very secret, or maybe it is very sec...

Federal civil rights investigation into the death of tyre nichols. what the u.s. attorney said in just the past hour. homes ripped apart and cars flipped on their sides after tornados tore through the houston area. the latest on the damage. and what to make of the new revelations that former vice president pence also had classified documents at his home and whether the classification system needs to change.

Were also going to drig into the tricky test that sets up for house oversight and what options republicans have from here, joining me now on the reporting, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly odonnell, and nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, and to explain what might be broken about our classification system, to help us understand what in the world is going on, director of the michael d. hayden cent...

The current president using that information when he shouldnt have been? >> right. and just for viewers at home, joshua, you know, you were the head of the intelligence division at the fbi. you know, we dont know what was in these documents. but what is your biggest concern? had and theres also a lot of discussion about overclas overclassification, right, that documents are often over-classified, they shouldnt be top secret, so forth and so on. how do you assess it? >> there is an ongoing effort...