journalists, and especially editors running newspapers that deal with leaks, especially involved in classified information, have to think very carefully about what they want to publish, what documents they want to publish, how they want to describe these documents, if they want to share these documents with the government, and they need to think about ways to protect the people providing them information. they have to be extremely careful. what are you doing differently? we spoke earlier this week and you used terms like source protection, operational security. this sounds like spy craft. i ll take a page out of the government s play book. i don t talk about sources or methods, but i will say this. you know, i had my records seized, phone records seized in an investigation that the government conducted against someone they believed had leaked me information. so i have been very careful for years now since that happened. how i handle information and how i contact people. you know, t
former british intelligence officer. he has written an interesting document. one thing that s making it difficult for journalists and others is that he has written for what we call source protection. he has gone to great lengths to try to disguise who he got this information from, probably because a lot of them are in russia and stand to get into a lot of trouble or worse, end up dead, if people find out who they are. which makes it difficult for the legal system and for journalists as well. as a legal matter, you want as much as you can. this probably is not enough. there has to be more there than just this dossier. appreciate it. phil, steve, thank you. just ahead, ivanka, questions about her business ties with china. live to georgia s sixth congressional district for late results in the election being followed closely by national democrats and the president of the united states. here are the numbers as they stand right now. they have been fluctuating. votes are still coming in