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They were telling the government our goal is to ensure our government doesnt have these secrets, pushing information out. we looked at this and stared at this and realized this was a threat to national security. i was part of the task force that went through and tried to determine was there a damage assessment we needed to do and what was the impact. that said, we also learned the u.s. government overclassifies information. so at that point good people can debate the spirit of what wikileaks was...

Host of the beat. former assistant u.s. attorney and ron a former assistant director at the fbi. ron, let me just ask you this, there are two kinds of leaks, right, the kind that are national security dangerous things that tell you where spies are and who they are and stuff like that. then there are the leaks that tell us that president trump was dishonest about the conversation that he had with the mexican president. the kind that say he was dishonest about the conversation with the australian ...

Critical of those leaks. >> the president here, its much more intrigue type of things. yesterday, lets be honest, the information leaked about the phone call with medidnt tell u anything. just trump being trump. it really did launch mistrust about the media. distracted or changed the conversation, which the white house wants it to do. change the conversation to a new investigation and away from president trump around the russian hacking. >> thats true. theres truth to that. in fairness, trump ha...

Condensing and to consolidate the number of people with access to classified information. just any time youre looking at administration with giving fewer and fewer and fewer people access with the information. i think you have a consolidation of power thats trouble sglg . >> to that point, its widely believed in the intelligence community and the legal community that the united states overclassifies information. all sorts soft stuff. you know ali well. wrote a book that contained material that h...

Overclassify overclassify. its trying to find the right balance. trying to strike the balance between what the public ought to know, managing more closely that very sensitive information. that is trafficked in government. that is held by government. managing that information that needs to be really closely guarded. and the number of people who have access to it. and the machinery by which they get access to it. and can share it and view it. so that internal infrastructures can manage and defend ...

Of the intelligence community, the armed services and those who serve overseas. they give our adversaries knowledge of our activities. they impede our ability to share information with our allies. there is also a real cost in dollars to compensate the programs and most importantly, as i have previously noted, these unauthorized disclosures endanger the safety and security of americans across the country. id like to point out, however, that these national security breaches do not just originate i...

And were in a day and age where we see so much more information at our fingerer tips. this shouldnt be a surprise, but it is. >> we should point out there is a couple seconds delay. then, given that you want to talk so much as do we about the agenda and getting jobs back and infrastructure, last night, i hope you had the opportunity to watch the president at a rally in west virginia. when he talked about hillary clinton who lost the election possibly being investigated. he thought she should be....

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