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One. >> joining us now is john mclaughlin, our national security analyst and former acting director of the cia. it is a real pleasure to have you on today. >> great to see you. >> you have the job she currently has and she's going for the top gig. sa sara ra -- sarah sanders quoted you yesterday. we know where you stand. people say the cia is hiding behind the classification process and they've selectively declassified the record to show the good parts and not the bad. >> these are always tough calls for the cia, particularly with someone like gina who spent her life in the clandestine service...

Happens, if you need to remember something, well, you write it down. and it strikes me that the conversations that jim comey had with the president were memorable. and i'm glad he wrote them down. >> another aspect this has to do with the classification process of this. it was i have to say as a journalist, feeling truly like a fly on the wall i was intrigued by then director comey's sort of speculative nature at the top there. for now i'm just going to choose secret for the classification, and perhaps others will decide where it belong. how does that process work? director comey had one decis...

Known as orejones which means big areas, so we'll see tattoos of an actual ear somewhere on their body, or a playboy bunny, if you know how to read the tattoos you find out this guy's a member. >> gang inspectors like officers rodriguez and rocha identified thousands of gang members, no system is perfect. neither is shooting lockup "extended stay". >> when shooting "extended stay", you will shoot for several weeks, and you'll be down a week or so and then come back. we shot our first couple of weeks, we saw the gang tension but it was pretty much under control. we went away for a week, and dur...

General relative to temporary classifications. clearly with the new administration in particular we're trying to fill a lot of new slots and the classification process and security clearance process has been mentioned. >> i'm only speaking with regard to folks who may have had issues raised as opposed to being in the matter of course of going through the long process. >> well, i'm not in a position -- we can talk about this in the classified session, but i'm not in a position to discuss what individual situations are for specified individuals. i might just say that i think sometimes it is nece...

Classifications. clearly with the new administration in particular we're trying to fail lot of new slots. and the classification process and security clearance process has been mentioned. >> yeah. i'm only speaking with regard to folks of issues raised opposed to just being in the matter of course of going through a long process. >> well, i'm not in a position and we can talk about this in the classified session but i'm not in the position to discuss what individual situations are for specified individuals. i might just say that i think sometimes it is necessary to have some type of preliminar...