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Activity, including the arrival of helicopters, ground attack aircraft and fighter bomber jets at forward locations. joining us, forward chief of staff at the cia and department of defense, nbc news national security analyst jeremy bash. good morning, jeremy. that breaking report comes from state media about the roared pull back of troops. it conflicts with what a lot of people are seeing on the ground, what surveillance aircraft are showing as well. how do you square the two reports? >> i thi...

Substantive things, theyre not reading e-mails, to extent anything was going on has nothing to do with what we think of as communications. >> people had the analogy it was the next watergate. watergate involved people breaking in trying to go through filing cabinets. when you look at the analogy here, if you want to call it watergate it is that the security guard while being paid to do security, observing who was coming in and that person was then paid to send the information to somebody else. i...

Think, is also very important. and risky. lets be clear. its also risky. but the biden administration has leaned in to declassifying information. remember, they have different leadership, the dni, hanes, used to work with the obama administration in a policy role. bill burns is the head of the cia, he used to work in the state department in a policy role so they have a different relationship right now in the biden administration about declassification. but lets be clear. theres a political risk ...

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Exercise their oversight responsibilities and look into this. when we strip this down and look at what we actually know, this is not likely to be something that we can easily dismiss: we know that the president of the united states has wide authority to declassifying information. if he says something classified to another leader, hes declassified the information. this is not a complaint about classified information. when we think about whats left, people dont often make promises without getting ...

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Our democracy which they claim they do you would immediately disinfect the fbi with sunlight. james clapper has no interest in doing that, and neither does the rest of official washington.es the only principle they care about is self-preservation and they will say anythingco in its service.li congressman adam schiff of california responded to the declassification order this way, quote: while trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, trump and barr cons...

They do you would immediately disinfect the fbi with sunlight. james clapper has no interest in doing that neither does the rest of official washington. the only principle they care about is self-preservation and they will say anything in its service. congressman adam schiff of california responded to the declassification order this way, quote: while trump stonewalls the public from learning the truth about his obstruction of justice, trump and barr conspire to weaponize law enforcement and clas...

Something quite dangerous and thats that ordinarily whenever we think about sources and methods and classified information and what information the united states government wants to protect, the concerns that were worried about are national security concerns and not political concerns. one of the things thats so alarming is that the president has decided to shift this authority from the director of national intelligence to the attorney general. the director of national intelligence sits over an ...

Information that he may need for yet this new russia investigation, this one yet another investigation into the origins of the russia investigation from the department of redundancy. does it -- as someone who spent years in law enforcement, are you happy that we are all going to be able to see, hopefully, the classified information and know the truth, or does this concern you? >> this concerns me greatly. you know, first of all, declassifying information, particularly when it relates to counteri...