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Argument youre making, of course, was traditionally made on the left and by civil libertarians and is now being used on the right, which has generally been very supportive of the fbis classification system. preet, youve got 45 seconds before we go to break. your reaction? >> yeah, look, do we over-classify in this country? yes. do people have an interest in making sure that we are very, very careful about what information we reveal? yes. should we overstate how important the information was in t...

And i was not involved in the transition. so in order to keep things straight and not fly under a false flag, i just put out a release saying i was not part of the transition. if they asked me to be part of the transition, i might have set aside some time and done it. but i didnt, and it wasnt right to say i was a senior member of the transition. >> fair enough. did you have tension with him about his vision on intelligence -- >> not on anything related to this, no. >> do you worry about what al...

Reconstruction, indicated that resolute support restricted the public release of unclassified district population and land area control data that had been provided previously. it was not the intent of resolute support to withhold or classify information which was available in prior reports. a human error in labeling occurred. classification system because it incorporates a nato and u.s. nomenclature can be challenging. the data is not classified and no intent to withhold it unnecessarily. the ar...

Because youre concerned about the implications there are legal ways in which you can have whistle-blower protection or go to committee for instance, on oversight and protect your legal rights and not get yourself into trouble. but just because you see something that is classified, you cant just hand that out like its candy and whether or not you mailed it or printed it, youre not allowed to do that and yes, i do believe, regardless of the administration, they should put handcuffs on a person lik...

But a contractor, a federal employee cannot just take it upon themselves to bypass the classification system. >> do you think in this environment where everything seems to be so partisan and political that someone would even feel comfortable doing it the right way as you say with whistle-blower protection? >> we have hundreds of thousands of people with security clearances. again, theres a right way to do it. theres a way to go to congress and have that conversation, protect all your legal right...

Absolute right to do so? >> well, he does have the absolute right. the entire classification system originates from the president, while congress has adopted some statutes to protect it, he really does control it and is the ultimate authority in the executive branch. it comes out of his executive powers under the constitution. so, he appears to me to have thrown his national security adviser under the bus. i dont know what the national security advisers going to say when he crawls out from under...

Information that would allow him to answer the kinds of questions that he raised in the tweets. >> and if a president wanted to declassify whatever was presented to a fisa court, could he? >> he could. he is the declassification god. and anderson, he did. if this tap actually took place -- and we dont know that it did -- but if it did, in the act of tweeting, president trump declassified it. >> it is a classified -- the very application -- >> look, it is very sensitive classification system. so ...

Presented to a fisa court, could he? >> he could. he is the declassification god. and anderson, he did. if this tap actually took place -- and we dont know that it did -- but if it did, in the act of tweeting, president trump declassified it. >> it is a classified -- the very application -- >> look, it is very sensitive classification system. so imagine weve got a shop fbi, nsa, maybe a hundred folks in it, and you do something under fisa? there might be only three or four folks in that large sh...

Hillary clinton was personally involved unless i just havent seen news coverage of that. so im a little bit confused as to why he would think she personally is responsible for this. >> well, whether its hillary or hillarys team, one of the reasons we have seen candidates like bernie sanders and donald trump rise in this country is because americans feel that washington insiders are protecting one another, not the benefit of the american people. what do you say to those people when they look at t...

E-mails from hillarys illegal server. thats a lot of illegality in that one statement, isnt it? >> that was donald trump hammering allegations that a state department official offered the fbi a deal to alter the classification of one of clintons e-mails, allegations the fbi and the state department deny. right now, im joined by texas democratic congressman joaquin castro, a clinton surrogate. steve schmidt just joined me and regarding the quid pro quo deal making, he said its shady as hell. >> w...