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>> hi everyone. happy friday. it has been building all week long, you can feel it, the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smith evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today the new york times is naming names. new york times today reveals the workers who removed boxes caring white house documents ahead of a meeting between don trumps legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. the times reports that the two employees wer...

long. you can feel it. the drip, drip, drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel jack smiths evidence in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. and today, "the new york times" is naming names. "the new york times" reveals the workers who moved the boxes containing white house documents ahead of a meeting between donald trumps legal team and doj at mar-a-lago. "the new york times" reports that the two employees were a maintenance worker and trumps va...

Canister teaching value. and there are partners in play there are at risk when it gets revealed. but can i talk about the stifel classification piece a little bit? so i, also, in my last position, i had declassification authority. i had it for a set of things. in my tenure, in fact in my career, when i had the authority, i dislike laugh declassified exactly one piece of information, went through a whole bunch of paperwork to do so, and the decision was overseen to make sure that it was for an of...

Ukraine conflict, which is on one level and information war, and you have to say that we have an advantage in that when. the real stakes here. the second thing is, it isnt information handled by -- is not to be casually done. im not sure that former president trump understood the craft discipline significance and strategic implication with each piece of information that he got. and if you dont understand that, then i think you can convince yourself that what you are reading the headline of a new...

>> yeah, i mean, i think its important to remember whats going on in the big picture and for about 20 months both the national archives and eventually the justice department have been trying to get back presidential records and classified documents from donald trump in mar-a-lago. they began to increasingly feel that they were being jerked around and theres so much evidence of this in all the court filings, months and months going by where they cant get the documents back in theyre asking for th...

Trump. in this case the basis for access to information is need to know. what i wrote down and what i would say now is, i dont see a need to know that would warrant access to that information. now you could always decide. the president could always decide, someone in the future could decide that there is a need to know. but right now all you have to do is apply that standard that is the foundational standard that is part of the protection of classified information. do you have a need to know? if...

Insurrection is so essential. every child should have access to that message. >> not only should every child have access to the message, they deserve the context that it provides. i was in elementary school when the challenger accident happened. i can imagine what it would have meant to have someone not exactly my age, but in my age range, articulate the pain and grief i was feeling. that is what books, poetry, and access provides. we have to remember that school libraries are often, for many ch...

Subject to the freedom of information act to be turned over to the press. it could be handled in open settings. and this is really sensitive stuff. this is stuff that people give their lives for. alliances depend on keeping this material confidential. its about sources, its about methods, its about all sorts of stuff that cannot spill out into the open, which is why for dozens of years america has had a classified information regime protocol that makes it so you cant do this kind of thing. and t...

Page of a pdb. but there is also a personal agenda that hes made no secret about pursuing. what do you make of what is public facing in line of an investigation looking at trumps ties and business relationships with those nations? >> so his intention, and those activities are not my area of expertise, but what i will say is as holders of classified information and responsibility for national security you understand that the people with whom you deal have their interests and their interests may g...

Covering and processing all of this utterances. hes not denying the central question that has been handed to jack smith, which is one of his handling of classified material into the instruction of the investigation into it. he says things like, i can declassified by thinking it. he simply describing his version, which isnt accurate or true or precedent id, of declassification in a frame of avoiding criminal exposure. he has never once said what you just said. but i understand, these are secrets ...