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Classified briefing its come out, and be in there and say, i read this in the new york times the other day. or, is it a combination of the two things? joyce and then harry. >> i think it is exactly the right question. yes, we have an overclassification problem. everyone in government knows that. i would echo clear. i have been in briefings were subsequently, within days, the information was. public and that is a situation we need to reckon with going towards the future. but we cannot say enough ...

Sitting, president president biden and the former president donald trump. my question is, is its a problem of elected officials mishandling classified information? or is the question of overclassification of documents, that is at play here? or is it both? >>, well jonathan, theres a couple of main points here. number, one i take and i know roger takes very seriously the headline of classified information, that sometimes these are operational secrets. americans lives can be at stake. this is very...

Unforced political error after political error. it helps trump. hes, you know, he exaggerates what he did was worse. but he will say this is, you know, a two tiered standard of justice. >> some democrats think that they should have done the search biden properties back in august when the documents were found at mar-a-lago just to be sure. speaking of classified documents, you said the u.s. has an overclassification problem. >> again, all the documents should have gone back to biden or trump. the...

Because those were fbi agents who did a more thorough search yesterday. sorry, on friday. and they found six more classified documents. drip drip drip. the more the states in the headlines the more damaging it is to biden and his family. >> on, thursday the president talked about this for the first time listen what he has to say. >> i think youre going to find there is nothing there. i have no regrets. i am following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do which is exactly what we are d...

Were talking about a document at the highest level, that should have never left the west wing, but we know there are other documents that can be labeled classified that often have fairly mundane information that dont necessarily merit those classifications. there is an overclassification problem in the federal government that i think this whole, both situations here is exposing. >> and the trump team has argued that as well, that there is an overclassification issue. susan, the white house has k...

At the biden penn center and presidents home in wilmington, delaware, they give congressional investigators a full menu of things to look into, and we can guarantee that theyre going to make the most of it. >> neil: all right. a lot will be said about the classified nature of the documents, where why theyre classified, the severity and sensitivity of each. we just dont know. we know there might be a lot more involving donald trump, but dont know that for sure. this has the makings of something t...

Away in a storage room at mar-a-lago. so according to the justice department, the fbi, thats the reason for that extraordinary search. paula reid just got a reaction from a member of former president trumps legal team and this person says to paula this whole issue were now talking about is indicative of the larger problem of trying to keep track of classified documents. overclassification problem. weve heard this from trumps legal team. thats one of the many things they have brought up as part o...

Referring to the entire world coming down on president trump for the classified documents found or potentially classified documents found at mar-a-lago. your thoughts on this, ben? >> obviously theres going to be the normal accusations of hypocrisy and i think that they probably have merit to them here. one of the things i think is important is to understand what the content of these documents are. we have an overclassification problem in america generally. a lot of people use that frankly as a ...