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Secured? where were they before that year before they made their way into this office? i would remind people these were top secret intelligence memos about ukraine, iran, around the united kingdom. first of all, the former vice-presidents were not authorized to possess those and cant declassify them. he is dealing with these highly sensitive documents. apparently, for six years, they have been stored in some closet. it goes back to, like you mentioned earlier, who brought them earlier? who saw t...

You would be more concerned about a potential leak to the media than the potential leak to classified and top secret documents. it occurs to me if youre talk about a dni assessment of what could compromise our national security, is the judge saying she wants to have the proof as opposed to the probable cause and the investigation at this point in time? >> shes sort of saying, you know, look, im not just going to take the governments word for it that these documents are classified, that there has...

Forever and he cant declassify them. and if he were to say, i declassified it, that is not necessarily a defense to those crimes which have nothing to do with whether it is classified or declassified. they prove impropering handling government documents. this is not taking a stapler from your old employer or a stack of the post-it notes, were dealing with the nations most sensitive secrets and apparently volumes of them. so his only defense is that i was negligent or it was an accident and negli...

The top secret level. stephanie tkpwgrisham is here t talk about this. she is author of "ill take your questions now." what did you make of this report, and tell us how this is how he handled documents when you were at the white house? >> you know, i wasnt surprised when i saw the report. i think whats important is this is another example of a white house and an administration that we had no rules. we followed no rules. obviously, with this, i do think it should be looked into. but theres going ...

The forms. we would have to know the question it was asking for because it doesnt seem to be a conflict of interest. >> because she was working at fusion gps, the firm tied to the dossier, which christopher steele was doing all the digging on the dossier for. if the president doesnt -- i mean, wi would he then, chan, declassify them. youre saying this is a political maneuver if it happens. if it doesnt look good for him, why would he do it? >> i think he has his own notion of what looks good for...

Can tomorrow they can declassify these documents. take them to the full committee if youre concerned about unmasking but clearly this is more about distracting, slowing things down, being very upset about how this process is going. its not about finding the truth. so for me to comment is prejudging, clearly whats important information, but if theyre that fascinated with the american public knowing what took place, declassify them. >> you keep saying dont prejudge but obviously this investigation...

Leader, the chairman of both the senate and house intelligence committees. that assessment does not measure up the facts. for him to characterize it this way is not accurate. that point of view is one that the president himself held and publicly expressed many times during the campaign, even during the transition, although he has mod rated on that. >> erik prince lives in the uae most of the time. the meeting took place in the seychelles island. remote islands that the arabs have bank rolled. iv...

Place you can have a good time away from the eyes of the media. now action the question is if theres nothing to hide, why the secrecy here? >> yeah. i know, i think thats the central question here. its a question that we are asking ourselves time and time again. why did flynn not just come clean about his communicationcommunications with the russian ambassador. why didnt sessions decide to err on the side of transparency. you can sort of understand in the context here leading up to this meeting ...

And detract. the first open hearing was a nightmare for them where director comey announced there was an investigation. he said that there was no evidence that trump tower was wiretapped. he said 24r5 the russians were absolutely trying to influence if -- the elections to hurt trump and hurt hillary clinton. i want the american public to learn exactly what took place. >> on that, some of the information youre trying to get, some members of your committee have been briefed on the wiretapping docu...

Donor. the secret sit down taking place on a excluded island. it involves a person kwekted to vladimir putin and the founder of the controversial security firm blackwater. erik prince is the name. his connections to trump is pretty tight. tom foreman is out front. >> watch out. let me get a shot. >> reporter: in the middle of the fighting in iraq and afghanistan, there was black water. in the middle of that private security force, its founder, former navy sale erik prinsz. >> i disagree with the...