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CNN counterterrorism analyst Philip Mudd has a well-deserved reputation for being unhinged but on Friday's Anderson Cooper 360 (with substitute host Jim Sciutto) he went completely berserk to the extent of trying to kick another comentator off the show that wasn't even his. Before his actual explosion you can see the absolutely fury building up in him as political commentator Paris Dennard was making good points as to why security clearances are profitable for those who hold them. ...

To this point was in advance of the search, the search warrant, the affidavit, things prepared before. this is a chance now to respond to whats been in public. phil, theres this government review process going on right now of the documents that were seized at mar-a-lago. one by the fbi that began in may, the other by the office of national intelligence. what do each of these reviews determine and how could they affect the investigation? >> i think theres two pieces of this. i can talk to you abo...

Diligent search for records responsive to the grand jury subpoenas. in the storage room or lawn, fbi agents found 76 documents bearing classification markings. all the classified documents seized in the august 8th search heaven segregated from the rest of the seized documents and are being separately maintained and stored in accordance with the appropriate procedures for handling and storing classified information. the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classificatio...

Ultimately the american people are the jury. they need to know what the evidence is against a former president. yes, a former president of the united states is different. we have to treat that person differently. and we need to make sure that donald trump is treated the same as joe biden would be treated if he left office. so the american public needs to go out there. so i think they should absolutely release the affidavit to the search warrant. we need to know the specifics of this case. you ca...

Clinton -- as soon as the department of justice opens a conversation with the press and the public, they have to continue the conversation, and they have to close it about a person or persons not just the former president but also lawyers, for example, who are supporting him who have not been charged. that is potentially doing a lot of damage to people as you raise their names in -- and hear in conversations by the attorney general when they may never be charged. the other thing, and the departm...

Attorney for the western district of virginia and also cnn counter terrorism analyst phil mudd. thanks both very much for being with me. i guess lets begin because this news just came in about lindsey graham. and john, i would ask you, i mean, its interesting because elliott williams was saying last hour to us the speech and debate clause argument could kind of go either way here for graham. right? the question is were these calls to raffensperger about those ballots related to the 2020 election...

A good thing because these investigations need to be with transparency and also with -- move forward quickly. when you have these various evidentiary disputes, it will slow down investigations. >> phil mudd, if i could turn to you on what we learned over the weekend and that is that the director of national intelligence, afvril haines tol the committees they are going to do what is a formal damage assessment on the documents taken from mar-a-lago, not the ones take own august 8th. this is the do...

Attorney and senior investigator for the generations committee and phil mudd, a former cia counterterrorism official, nice to have you here. gentlemen, you heard just go talk about just the alphabet soup and the idea of this being stuffed in different places like almost a junk drawer, phil, when you hear about the classifications on the markings, summit levels that are not supposed to even go to allies let alone just be put with a post-it note somewhere in a box somewhere down in florida, what i...

As well as it red lights to when trump is supposed to respond to the special master request that hes made. well come back to that and give you a chance to get through it in a really good way. for a deeper dive, i want to bring in bradley moss, a national security lawyer, john wood, former u.s. attorney and senior investigator for the january 6th committee, and phil mudd, former cia counterterrorism official. nice to have you here, gentlemen. you just heard jessica talk about just that alphabet s...

Personal activities, if there are photographs i would almost even consider the kim jong-un letters, theyre not personal. theyre state property, but i could see if you want to give him the benefit of the county saying thats a personal letter to me, you weed that stuff out, thats fundamentally different from information that does not relate personally to the president. lets say youre interrupting a foreign governments communications, thats u.s. government information that the president, the chief ...