top secret, by the way, which would have limited it even more. and never in my memory did it go into this secret compartmentalized information that you re talking about. that s a special direct rat of intelligence that keeps that special information. like what? what would you say would be appropriate to put into that directorate. i can t talk about it. that s the point. highly sensitive information about covert operations, information we have about weapons systems that have to protect our sources for gathering it, not a phone call with a head of state. i want to emphasize one other really important thing, at least in the obama era, if you re working on ukrainiae yanish use those phone calls are important for the conduct of policy. even when i was not allowed to
code word system, and that s only used for highly classified material including covert operations, you know, other things that, you know, should have a tight close-hold system, but if you look at many of these calls they don t actually have classified information on them. do we know it doesn t have classified informations? when it is classified at this point? you mentioned in reporting there at politico it is a stark departure from how the servers normally is used and how memos of the president s exchanges are typically handled. the question you mentioned it was after those leaks with the mexican president and the australian prime minister, but how unusual is it now for this white house? i think it s pretty unusual, because, you know, of course, president trump has hated leaks from the beginning, but the reason that they were putting these call transcripts into these much more locked-down
officials are explaining where these were stored? a white house official acknowledged a key graph of the whistle-blower was accurate. in a statement it said nfc lawyers directed the classified document, talking about the transcript between zelensky and trump, be handled appropriately. what the white house is saying according to the senior official is, yes. nsc lawyers directed it be listed in the code file, nothing wrong with it and making the argument the transcript was classified as every head of state transcript is, but, brianna, the code word system that the crypt was moved into is reserved for highly classified transcripts that include information like covert operations. it s not typically used to house classified information like a call with a head of state that
the afghan cost and just have the united states pay for u.s. costs. i think we can get that worked out. mike: is worth noting almost 75 years after the end of world war ii we still have troops in places like germany and japan. 66 years or so after the korean conflict we still have plenty of troops keeping an eye on north korea. is there any reason why the united states shouldn t keep some troops in afghanistan to keep an eye on things and make sure there s not enough to make another 9/11? that s a great question people ask me even today. i had an official asking me to the end look like? how does this turn out to while the fact is radical islam is a multigenerational war. we are not close to the end of it and we are only interested in certain pieces of that war. i would suggest pakistan promote conducting covert operations, with got their foot on their neck. afghanistan is another place we keep a model or atomic modest investment in. they may not know that we go into yemen, libya an
you said the information will curl your hair. i ve got pretty straight hair. how does why does my hair become curly? well, i think what happens, every time and sarah was just talking about what may be coming in some of this, but when we talk about spying on a trump associate, what i m talking about is spying in the sense that the american people believe what spying is, that is secretly recording, taking down notes, making sure that they do covert operations sean: did jim comey spy? well, you know, he actually he was aware of improper things that were being done, certainly. sean: all right. and how soon can we expect last question, exit question. sara, we will start with you. i think within weeks we are going to get information, and as it comes on, it will be an avalanche of information for the american people. i think they will be very disturbed at what they learn. sean: mark?