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one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and "the new york times" reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in t...

According to multiple sources familiar with the investigation. on the recording, trumps comment suggests that he would like to share the information but is aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records two sources said. this feels like a lights out indictment of any sort of baloney that he has been saying about i thought i declassified them. he didnt even declassify them in his imagination. >> if this reporting is true, and im not trying not to use hyperbole, this is ...

And trumps comments suggest that he would like to share the information but he is aware of limitations on his ability post-presidency to declassify records. it gets straight at what he understood and there is reporting anybodying around nibbling around the edges, but this reporting seems to put a whole lot of new information in the public side of what we understand in terms of the strength of jack smiths case and understanding trumps true intent. >> yeah, and i think this is really interesting b...

With this information which is that donald trump was at the very least lax in how he was handling it and it is going to have huge repercussions within the intelligence community in terms of making sure that this is not the only thing that was disseminated. >> mary, there is distorted sequencing of our understanding of jack smiths cases. we learn about it when it becomes public, but this is quite possible this is one of the first things that jack smith new about or maybe even merrick garland. and...

Going to senior trump aides in the summer. but this firing of krebs is trumps act on twitter feed and trump is ranting and ravening in meetings with a slew of witnesses that have been in and out and in and out to the jack smith grand juries. what do you make of chris krebs, and his decision of firing him and being at the heart of jack smith? >> what i can tell you, its not just a development thats happened in last two weeks, actually going back at least several months, jack smiths team has ask t...

Milley about the incident. the july 2021 meeting was held at trumps golf club in bedminster. including communications specialist margo martin. attendees did not have security clearances that would have allowed them to access classified information. meadows did not attend. let me read this one more section of this report and mary im coming back to you. investigators have questioned general milley about the episode making him one of the highest ranking national security officials from trumps admin...

Disposal for a long period of time information into if he used that information to advance an agenda item, it could have devastating consequences to national security. i cant think of a simpler way to say why i think this moment is so difficult and that is because there is no justification in knowing who he is and that he doesnt fully understand but he may not decide to protect if he wanted to do something different. >> sue gordon chooses her words so carefully and i hang on to every last one of...

Charges. it also is a separate crime to disseminate versus just possess. andit differentiates biden an pence. so from a political perspective it is huge because there is no evidence this happened with respect to president biden or former vice president pence. the information is not just classified information, it is one of the most sensitive types of classified information which is war plans involving potential attack on iran. so from every single aspect of this, if this reporting is accurate an...

You about either way his intent and knowledge was revealed. whether he was making it up or not making it up, he was acknowledging i dont have authority to have classified information or to share it with you. but i do think that it is interesting. he sort of seems by this reporting to say id sure like to share it with you so i can rebut what general milley is saying but i cant. >> and now i get to read more of this fantastic reporting because there is great context i want to share with our viewer...

Into the espionage or mishandling. this youre saying is you think game over on an espionage charge or what is the charge? >> absolutely. so there is espionage charges. this is basically it is a crime to -- >> violation of the espionage act. >> yes. so it is a crime to possess national defense information without authority. it is a crime to disseminate that, that is to share it. and here there apparently is shared with people who dont have clearance to get this information. and again this, is not...