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The people that were prosecuted were people that had done the leaking. >> thats right. >> and were i think in all cases government employees. >> thats right. >> who the government said were bound by the classification system. >> yeah. there was one other case that involved apac that fell apart but otherwise, yes, thats right. they were leakers, government employees or bound by the governments classification system. this is not that kind of case. it really is crossing a new and in my view very da...

Government employees. >> thats right. >> who the government said were bound by the classification system. >> yeah. there was one other case that involved apac that fell apart but otherwise, yes, thats right. they were leakers, government employees or bound by the governments classification system. this is not that kind of case. it really is crossing a new and in my view very dangerous frontier. >> adam, it strikes me as a message indictment. its not an accident that the president who says look a...

The cell phone come for the most part. things that are not, you know come outside the sources and methods that they normally look at. so they might not be the need to, and its up to those agencies to figure out what needs to be redacted. but it might not be what democrats are demanding to keep so much of the secret. we should just see it all. >> emily: i do think that the reliance on technology, having exceeded the structure, is not a good defense, here. i think that the scope and the presumptio...

Thats been kind of the standard pattern here. to me, the issue isnt so much johns clearance or mine or anybody elses. thats kind of small potatoes. the bigger issue here to me is using the presidents authority over the classification system and granting or revoking clearances as a political weapon. and that, to me, is a much larger issue here and has huge implications. for example, and im just positting this, suppose the president, given his version to the mueller investigation decides to revoke...

Judiciary committee. if congress finds what he did was a leak, they can make a referral for a false statement. >> how they find if it is not a leak? is it wasnt classified at the time? does that stand up at all? >> leavy does have anything to do with it being classified. it is a separate problem. if you distribute the information is clearly a crime, is a felony. all the documents were not marked, he created them, they are not marked. documents are more classified when they fit into a classificat...

Steve: incredibly, james shaw jr. suffering only a minor injury. just last year, ryan king was arrested by the secret service in a restricted area near the white house. and dan bongino joins us right now secret service guy host of the dan bongino show and nra corinther as well. so this guy was stopped near the white house by the secret service a while back. his guns were confiscated by the police ultimately. i guess resul ultimately crimins dont follow gun laws do they? >> no. thats only shockin...

As a result. you see what john is saying, the president will say something illegal and all of a sudden theres folks on the hill who want to do an investigation. its important that the president have a consistent standard about classified information and we know from last summer that he himself disclosed classified information that was then traced back to our allies in israel. he is not himself that careful with this information. here he is raising all these things about the comey memos, which by...

Requests for follow-up inquiry and we did the follow-up and provided that information in november, and that we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> okay. let me turn now to the two recent arbitrary and inconsistent decisions that affect the politicizing of the classification system. the first was the public release of the nunes memo. the second involved the report that the congress requir...

And we did the follow-up and provided that information in november and that we administratively closed the file in january and then earlier this month we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> okay. let me turn now to the two recent arbitrary and inconsistent decisions that affect the politicizing of the classification system. the first was the public release of nunes memo. the second involved the report that the congress required on russian oligarchs, their relat...

And the intelligence committee when they decided to release the original republican memo. >> and we are in unchartered territory as you brought up the there. but my also understanding is that based on the laws that the, this could end up going back to the full congress for a vote, right? that it could end up out of the presidents hands at some point? >> well, it could go back to the full congress, but this decision of the supreme court in 1988 which is called the "navy versus evans" says that th...