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He sort of opened up this question of saying that because i declassified the documents and i have the right to do that as president, that i cant be charged with a crime. that is simply inaccurate based on any number of statutes and certainly the statutes that the justice department appeared to be investigating when they searched mar-a-lago. they bolted out what the statutes were and none had anything do with classification. what matters here with that espionage act, was it defense information. a...

Intelligence community. i assume they had. and bear in mind, there could be other documents that are not intelligence. it could be a defense document. there could be one report, for example, on nuclear documents. we dont know if thats true or not. if thats the case well, again, it could be extremely serious. so well just have to see how this unfolds. >> director we were learning just moments ago that president biden has authorized strikes against groups in syria today. what kind of message does ...

To do a comprehensive and exhaustive investigation, you need not record a thing. >> it makes you wonder how much of an investigation this was versus how much of a defense document this was. brian. >> as a criminal defense attorney whose clients walk into court as a two to three touchdown underdog and the notion of criminal justice being like government intelligence or jumbo shrimp, i know the constitution is alive and well in the garden state. props to this judge for recognizing this, what it wa...

Also, its a defense document that christies defense team effectively that has been paid for by new jersey taxpayers. there were a lot of questions today about the price tag of this. >> right. a million dollars is the estimate weve seen. look, the report is not nothing. there are a lot of dee tails in here. theres a lot of e-mails we havent seen before. theres a lot of casualties, some of them pretty dramatic, when cristy calls his staff together after press reports, slams the door, says the conf...

>> the amount of completely ignoring the facts. as you know, this administration has taken every reference to radical islam out of every defense document and denied that that is the source of the terrorist activity thats confronting this country. when they put the fort hood, major hassan shooting all of those people in fort hood? work mraes shooting. >> never mention of radical islam, muslim, nothing, completely sanitized and this is a living in a suspended reality. this building this nuclear fa...

And you confront that threat not just militarily and importantly not just militarily. you confront it first by being honest with the american public about what this threat is. this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. theres -- the word "radical" islam doesnt appear anywhere. why? because we are fighting political -- were trying to fight this politically correct war and not being honest with the american public as to who the enemy is, how virulently they are and why they h...

this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. the word radical islam doesnt appear anywhere. why? because were fight -- were trying to fight this politically correct war and not talking about how they hate us and what we must do to stop us. >> we know you have differences with president obama, but who has the better argument between snoe santorum and huntsman? >> i would send troops back into iraq. >> now? >> i think we start talking with the iraqi individuals there,...

country is ensured. thats what the job of our commander in chief is. you make that decision. not the generals. you make that decision based on an analysis of understanding how virulent the threat of radical islam is. and you confront that threat not just militarily and importantly not just militarily. you confront it first by being honest with the american public about what this threat is. this president has sanitized every defense document. everything. theres -- the word "radical" isl...

Wikileaks prepares to publish another round of documents from the defense document. they are asking them to hand over materials and erase it from the web. jim miklaszewski, pentagon correspondent, how can the pentagon compel wikileaks to do this. >> reporter: thats the big problem. they demanded wikileaks not reveal or post the other 15,000 classified documents it claims it has and did he handed they be returned to the pentagon and demanded they erase them from all wikileaks computers but they r...

His lawyer referred them to the white paper, the defense document they already have prepared n white paper it says, had mr. ray, person until or volunteers heard or understood there to be an urgent call for help they immediately would have stopped the ceremony t is a very carefully calibrated statement. >> yes. >> basically, had they -- had they heard or understood there to be an urgent call for help, not sure what an urgent call for help would be. i mean it is easy to interpret that in many way...