joining us now are former special counsel to the general counsel department of defense ryan goodman and rebecca roissy. thank you both for being here on what we said was definitely no shortage of news this morning. i wonder what s your reaction to this first filing that we got from trump s legal team today. it took two weeks for them to get there. and they are now asking for this third party attorney. but i think, we re wondering, if it s too late? it does seem too late. it s two weeks after the search began. so you d actually think it should be filed hours after the search began. and it s a reasonable request in some sense to ask for something like this from a third party. why is it reasonable? it s reasonable, because we might think we don t necessarily trust the way the fbi would conduct it. we want an objective third party institution to view things to sort out what they should have versus what they shouldn t. but the content is as quite bizarre. what they re saying
controls and sensitive information without adequate oversight. zatko also alleges some of the company s senior most executives tried to cover up twitter s vulnerabilities. cnn s donie o sullivan is here with the exclusive details. what are we seeing, what are the main headlines out of this disclosure? that s right, kaitlan, a lot to break down in this. this disclosure is in the hands of multiple u.s. law enforcement agencies, including the s.e.c. and the department of justice and today zatko is speaking out for the first time to cnn. have a look. ready? yes. why are you coming forward? all my life i ve been about finding places where i can go, and make a difference. reporter: this is peiter zatko. until january this year he was head of security at ftwitter, bt now a whistle-blower. he said the problems are so grave, they re a risk to national security and democracy. twitter is a critical resource to the entire world. i think it is an extremely important platform.
twitter poses a threat to national security and democracy. the cnn exclusive this morning, coming from a new whistle-blower report. i m john berman, brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins with me this morning with big news. massive news. it is interesting to see how elon musk is responding to all this. we have a new response. it is all about alleged security vulnerabilities and recklessness. the disclosure obtained by cnn and the washington post comes from twitter s former head of security, peiter zatko s claims were sent last month to congress and several federal agencies. in this 200 page disclosure, zatko portrays a chaotic environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many staffers access to central