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It's not shocking to me that many of them have classified material. is it to you? >> now, it's not shocking. and it's not just former government officials, its current ones as well who are using these documents just in the regular course of business. they may have to work at home, may have family demands, they may have traveled that puts them away from a classified systems and facilities i mean secure systems and facilities that they're supposed to use for classified documents. we're learning that accidental mishandling of classified information, which at least as of now appears to be what hap...

There are some in my bookshelf. there's nothing like that. shouldn't there be some record? again, particularly pertaining to one of the points to make here, there are classified and really classified. there's a huge system. it does seem like some of the trump stuff is way up that chain a very secret. >> that's true -- >> but you would also think there would be a record. >> you would think there would be a record, and it's also true that maybe the stuff trumpet was very secret, or maybe it is very secret at the time he took it, but the secrets became stale. the thing is, one consequence of the ...

Federal civil rights investigation into the death of tyre nichols. what the u.s. attorney said in just the past hour. homes ripped apart and cars flipped on their sides after tornados tore through the houston area. the latest on the damage. and what to make of the new revelations that former vice president pence also had classified documents at his home and whether the classification system needs to change.

We're also going to drig into the tricky test that sets up for house oversight and what options republicans have from here, joining me now on the reporting, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, nbc news senior white house correspondent, kelly o'donnell, and nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent, garrett haake, and to explain what might be broken about our classification system, to help us understand what in the world is going on, director of the michael d. hayden center for intelligence policy and international security at george mason university, larry pfeiffer. ...

The current president using that information when he shouldn't have been? >> right. and just for viewers at home, joshua, you know, you were the head of the intelligence division at the fbi. you know, we don't know what was in these documents. but what is your biggest concern? had and there's also a lot of discussion about overclas overclassification, right, that documents are often over-classified, they shouldn't be top secret, so forth and so on. how do you assess it? >> there is an ongoing effort and has been for years on the classification system in the government. are documents overclassi...