Code Level News Today

FOLLOWING incidents in the Red Sea and the Bab El-Mandeb Strait since Nov. 19, 2023, the International Bargaining Forum (IBF) has agreed to designate the southern section of the Red Sea and the Strait as a High Risk Area (HRA) beginning Dec. 22, 2023.

Like most of you, my family handled the 2020 COVID-19 situation the best we could with grace and determination, while using all the time together at home to strengthen our

Tto -- letter to ig and they are asking the intelligence community, they are complaining basically, they write that at no point in any of the following information provided to the house intelligence committee related to this issue did you indicate that your office found any of the whistleblowers allegations to be based on firsthand knowledge during the preliminary review you underfood to determine whether the complaint appeared credible. they are still quibbling with the second hand knowledge. b...

State mike pompeo demanding documents related to the ukraine call and the suspension of aid. those committees also announced their intent to depose four state department officials who were mentioned in the complaint, including all rec bretmule who again we are told was not involved in any of this. bret? >> bret: okay, john roberts live on the north lawn. john, thanks. lets dig in a little bit more. learning additional information about that whistleblower complaint that ignited this latest impeac...

Intelligence matters. ie, not politically sensitive and potentially damaging phone calls. joining me, two reporter whose have been following this angle of the story, nbc news correspondent cara lee and politico contributor natasha bertran. the moving of the notes from the call to the place theyre normally stored to this code level intelligence server, how does that happen? >> well, according to the whistle-blower, he says this happened as part of that effort to, quote, lockdown this transcript, ...

Said. we have a panel with us now. the complaint from the whistleblower says that politically sensitive information, meaning this phone call which was not classified, was moved to a standalone server, right, housed with the nfc on white house grounds, was moved into this highly classified system to keep it from certain eyes. what would that have taken, sam? >> this was classified. typically when the transcript is drafted by members of the situation room, distributed to members of the nfc staff a...

Here. either the president did know he was doing something that jeopardizes the safety of the united states and u.s. allies, et cetera, and seems to boast about it, breaking about it, got great intel, he said, or he didnt know it was problematic what he was sharing. arent those both really big problems. >> youve got two issues. lets cover intelligence issue. theres typically three tiers, confidential, top secret, code level is above top secret. its super secret intercepted communications that te...