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From then candidate donald trump. and the white house, i suppose, is thinking that over the next six months that some of these questions will be answered by these various national security agencies that have some kind of say in all of this. but this is becoming, anderson, a promise made by the president -- if all of those files are not released by the end of april 2018, the president will have a promise he didn't keep with the american people. >> jim acosta, appreciate it. thanks very much. joining us with his take is cnn presidential historian, tim naftali. tim, i know you're interested to se...

American people. >> joining with us his take is cnn presidential historian, tim naftali. i know you're interested to see these documents. how much do you think the vail will be lifted? >> well, i'm waiting to see if national security agency materials are open. the review board, in its final report said they looked at national code breaking materials, decided they were not relevant to the lee harvey oswald case. one interesting document that i noticed, i haven't looked at all of them, is a document from two days after the assassination. 23 you want to see examples of federal bungling, this is a...

I assume you watched the " 0 minutes" report last night. it was frightening, keys to the kingdom? >> carol, it's grim, it truly is. i think what we're starting to see coming out from snowden is from what we call code breaking. he's been talking about the codes we can break with common cell phones, but i think the assumption that the national security agency now is that he's gotten into the crowned jewels as it was put and that is diplomatic communications and things like that. i cannot exaggerate enough or i can't tell you enough how bad this compromise has been. this has been a total disaster...

Important you keep on the computer at home would keep the government from spying on you, think again. according to a report from "new york times," and "the guardian" the nsa has employed several techniques to get around inscription, it includes using superfast computers to crack codes, but another technique that might surprise you is that the nsa actually is working with, colluding with, whatever word you may want to use, american and other companies to make their encryption programs weak enough so they can get access to the data. a former deputy director at the nsa said code breaking is essen...

Investigation, as far as i'm concerned as far as why he went to china and why he planned this. even if it's just by happenstance, he is giving informs, that's added felonies, to make clearly a series of felonies. >> what about this glen greenwald, who wrote the article in "the guardian"? >> i think first of all, people who call themselves journalists shouldn't have a blanket immunity. if during world war ii, journalists, under the freedom of the press, released information regarding the code-breaking with the japanese or the germans, that -- i don't see how that could have been tolerated f. jo...