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>> i don't think it's safe to have hillary clinton be briefed on national security because the word will get out. one of the first things we must do is to enforce all classification rules. >> all classification rules. joining me is bobby jicon and alexi mccammen who has been covering this story. bobby, sometimes the first question is straightforward. as then candidate trump just said, are they enforcing all the rules? >> clearly not. the fbi is enforcing all -- it's doing everything it can to speed up these and expedite these clearances, but you only have the sf-86 to go on. that's the form fl...

Resolve these issues. and so the country is going to face another short-term continuing resolution. we're going to go on for another few weeks. i think this is totally irresponsible because here we are more than halfway through a new fiscal year, and they still have not approved a budget for this fiscal year. it really damages the ability of our defense department to be able to do what it needs to do to prepare for all of these crises we're confronting. it undermines programs throughout the government because there's total uncertainty about what the budget is going to be. this is no way to run...

Years. i've done national security cases since reagan. there's no sources and methods in this. this is a fairly clean memo. in fact people have said it doesn't really contain much. but what should concern people is that classification laws were used to keep this under seal. the fbi has said that they obtained to it being declassified because it was inaccurate by omission. that's not an argument of classification. that's an argument, you don't like how the facts are being portrayed. those of us who have been critics of fisa and the intelligence communities see this document as very important in...

That. i've done fisa work for many years. i've done national security cases since reagan. there's no sources of methods in this. this is a fairly clean memo. in fact, people have said, it doesn't really contain much. but what should concern people is that classification laws were used to keep this under seal. you know, the fbi has said that they objected to it being declassified, because it was inaccurate by omission, that's an argument how you don't like how the facts are being portrayed. those of us who have been critics of fisa and the intelligence communities see this document has very imp...

Of these members saying that it's horrible that this memo was declassified. it's really chilling for those of us on the civil liberties side. for years, i'm talking about decades, we have argued that the committee should use the rule 11g to push back on overclassification. for years. many of us, and i've testified in both the intelligence committees and in both classified and unclassified session. i've seen stuff that has been clearly unclassified, that they held on through classification rules, to keep the public from seeing. and so 11g is an important rule. what is surprising is not that it ...