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In the case of biden or pence by any means but you're right, absolutely serious oversight is required. and not just of how they handle the documents but we all have a system of overclassification. we classify too much material and probably far too many people have security clearances. i mean, i used to be very frustrated as a member of congress. i would go into a classified briefing, only to learn things that i already read in "the new york times" or on cnn. i mean, that's not helpful and so i think there is a problem with this and, by the way, members of congress are -- i had access to really...

>> so the fbi and the special counsel are investigating what is a mishandling of documents case now. and that question is, were these documents mishandled? the answer is yes. why were they mishandled? was it intentional or unintentional? that's being inquired of. were they disseminated to anybody while they were mishandled? that's another question they have to ask. they have to answer these particular questions to make a determination whether or not this mishandling of classified document documents rises to the level of a criminal charge or whether it's inadvertent and therefore not criminal. ...

We also have national security attorney mark zad, former federal prosecutor michael zoreden, and arne gidur. mark, i want to start with you. you have a lot of experience dealing with classified documents and so forth. what do you make of this latest development, six more classified documents found at the president's residence? and how could this impact the investigation? >> it's embarrassing, let's put it plain and simple. this has been mishandled from day one. i'm not concerned, even with the discovery of additional possibly classified documents, because just because they're still marked "cla...

Politically going to be fodder for the republicans, and more importantly, unfortunately, it could, though it shouldn't as a matter of law, impact how the justice department deals with president trump. because as you've been saying, so many people are trying to make a comparison that this is apples and apples, when it's not even close. the two situations are completely factually distinct. >> the bottom line, and you're absolutely right, there are key distinctions. most of all, there is an obstruction investigation with trump where evidence was developed, documents have been moved out of their p...

>> yeah, i've heard that complaint for years and years, covering national security and doj. i just want to be really transparent with our viewers of just how much we don't know in this case too. while the president's attorneys now seem to be more open and transparent with us about what is being found, there is a lot we don't know. i learned -- you were my national security professor at gw. i've learned a lot about how lawyers, how they write letters and certain words that they use. i'm going through this letter, mark, and i'm looking at the way they say six items consisting of documents with c...