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the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agents most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted th...

that you miss whats really important. thats whats happening right now in america. our president and the rest of the democratic party have their priorities all wrong. in a new fox poll, 41% of the potential voters said inflation is their most important concern. with no other issue even coming close. and if you ask joe biden and the democrats, they will tell you inflation is their top priority. >> and i have said many times tackling inflation is my number one priority. >> jesse: but acti...

Against the president squarely fits a very popular, very highly used federal corruption statute that basically says this -- if youre a public official and youre seeking something of value in return for a promise of an official act by you, youve violated the law. so, the thing of value would be seeking an investigation of your political opponent, biden or his son. the public -- the official act you could hand them in return for that personal favor would be $250 million in military aid. it doesnt ...

Intelligence, what alarm bells go off? >> two of them. i want -- the big question were missing is obviously why? why did he do this? what did he expect in exchange? what did he expect the ukrainians to do with the information? did they expect access to him while -- that is manafort while he was influencing policy on the campaign? thats a counterintelligence problem. the second -- and thats why manaforts cooperation is significant. hes cooperating, i suspect on money issues because he doesnt see ...

But im sure people you talk to are telling you the same thing theyre telling me, which is if this -- if there was a real huge counterintelligence problem in -- with jared kushner in muellers shop, that that would make it harder to get clearances, too. so that coupled with the news that the lawyer for jared kushner said today that hes now -- that kushners now met twice with the office of special counsel for several hours and given interviews and is in full cooperation. again, if youre in team kus...

Word with lawrence odonnell." >> so tuesday who will the national security advisor be? will john bolton get the ethics clearance and take the job or will h.r. mcmaster sit there until bolton clears or never clears? whats next? >> if it were any job other than national security advisor or any potential conflicts other than hey, maybe youre in the middle of the mueller counterintelligence investigation you might expect they clear whoever it is through. i think the prospect you have a counterintell...

The transition when theres no legitimate claim to executive privilege. >> i think a question a lot of americans have right now is whats the point of having congressional investigations right now, particularly the house intelligence committee, if theyre not going to push for certain answers given that robert mueller is doing his own investigation and has already heard from hope hicks? >> i think its important to separate the different roles of the rob mert mueller investigation on the one hand an...

Administration with respect to reporting requirements, whether what we call the sf-86, the national security questionnaire or testimony before the hill and their confirmation hearings, everything that continually seems to be omitted has to do with russia. so that is the definite counterintelligence problem and its a credibility problem for sure. and it keeps tracing back all the way up the chain to the president. >> does it strike you as it did a lot of people yesterday, and i thought it was one...

Service community made of that bizarre meeting. >> those, again, were images that took peoples breath away. the counterintelligence problem of having a russian official photographer with god only knows what in his camera equipment marched into the oval office was shocking to people. the fact that those were the images the american public and the world saw was just one more bizarre footnote to this. i think as people watched this, they have been -- they have been troubled by each piece of it. my ...

Requires documentation, and he would have gone through immigration, and so it is not possible that he would have been secreted into the country by the intelligence authorities. frankly, wolf, he had to have some relationship to agree to come into the united states, and he changed the mind. i think it is pressure on the family. if he came here without them, they are in the most danger by virtue of his video. >> well, if he had gone back to cooperate with the u.s. intelligence community, the irani...