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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...

them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at...

Any such order, procedure or policy when i came in. if trump were to say something like that, you would have to memorialize that so people would know it existed. he says, bolton, it was almost certainly a lie. so, steve, the substance of all of this, though, just go back to the idea that there may have been information at mar-a-lago that should not have been at mar-a-lago. there was one box carried out that was labeled ts/sci, top secret, sensitive compartmented information. which means what? >>...

Talking about it but only because its corruption which leads it a very basic question. have you ever heard of the u.s. government asking another government to investigate its own citizens? >> no. i dont know of a case. certainly in my incumbency in the intelligence business, i cant recall a case of that. >> right? i mean, if you had a legitimate question about, you know, a member of congress, you know, let alone a vice president and what he was doing in another country, you guys would take it up...

That. >> if you had a legitimate question about a member of congress, let alone a vice president and what he was doing in another country, you guys would take it up yourselves, right? you would either make it a counterintelligence question or it would be a reference to the d.o.j. >> exactly. that should be done internally. you know, with our own investigatory apparatus, not ask another country, which, by the way, if youre concerned about their corruption to go and investigate. on its face its ki...

Counterintelligence question. the fbi tried to determine whether the president of the united states was compromised or influenced by a foreign adversary, my russia. congress has a right to know the results of that information under a separate intelligence reporting statute. the intelligence committees argue the fbi should come to them and tell them what they found. that would have to be in a classified setting and nancy pelosi has apparently said today thats not acceptable to her. she doesnt thi...

Release. if youre going to say, well, were not going to talk about our findings because it doesnt reach a criminal threshold thats a mistake because this is answering a counterintelligence question. what did russia do with us? and to what extent was our president involved in that? and thats not criminal. and what im watching carefully for is what im going to call a speaking declination. mr. president, we have good news, the good news, we chose not to seek your indictment. the bad news is, were g...

Possibly be emerged from a southern district investigation if you had direct links and indictments from the trump campaign to high level figures in the russian government, that would be the number one thing going on. >> steve, lets all remember that the start for the whole special counsel investigation was an fbi russian counterintelligence investigation. and that seminole question still needs to be answered. and here is my concern. if we apply criminal metrics and standards to what gets into th...

World, evidence can become stale. well, he refreshes the evidence almost on a weekly basis, that he is compromised in some way. whether that feeds into a criminal charge by the special counsel or others or whether that goes towards impeachment or whether its straight-up counterintelligence question that needs to be answered, its got to still be going on. look, this national intelligence report from the dnis office, this just sets up the stark contrast between the geopolitical realities of the sp...

With russia, he said, i dont know. kaitlan, im sure you freaked out when he said he wasnt going to nashville. what does the white house think about this moment? >> reporter: theyre furious about it. you saw that reflected in the statements they issued this weekend after that flurry of questions came out. clearly the president is bothered by it, too, because not only did he deny working with russia, he said the question was absurd. the reporter only asked the question because of the series of que...