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Prosecutor. if i could begin with you, director clapper, as you know in this redacted affidavit we learned these classified materials recovered included material beyond really the level of top secret, very highly classified categories within that level of classification, including clandestine human sources, overseas intelligence gathering. given your decades in intelligence as well as serving as dni, tell us what potential damage could be caused by keeping these in an unsecure environment. >> well, first caveat statement i want to make when we're discussing this is we still do not know the con...

Ridiculous. but on top of that, corcoran's letter also tried to claim that a former president is totally immune from criminal liability because of separation of powers issues. also a faulty legal argument here. and overall, jim, corcoran's letter tries to claim and warn that the doj is being just purely political about this investigation. of course that's a refrain we've heard repeatedly over the past several weeks from trump and his allies. >> no question. and normally a process of declassification involves consultation with intelligence agencies, relabeling and so on, none of which appears t...

Has supported these groups. hezbollah and lebanon for example. -- human. they certainly support some groups in syria as well. i think this is sending a message, certainly, to iran. and appropriately so. >> director clapper, thank you sir, i appreciate it. but >> thanks don. >> it is primarily in america. we've got more results coming in. the race in new york getting tighter tonight. i want to get right to cnn's bill mattingly worries at the match for us. hello, phil you've been watching the votes come in. what's the latest new york? >> we talk about primaries. on a talk about a special electio...

Thanks as always for your time, we appreciate it. >> thanks, jim. let's bring in cnn analyst former adviser to four presidents, david gergen. we were just talking to director clapper about the fbi being inundated with threats. i have to ask you, someone who has worked with presidents both republican and democrat, this is a question that's come up a couple of times on this program, what would a former president of the united states, why would he need, and what would he be doing with boxes and boxes of classified and top secret material at his post presidential compound, if you will? do you bu...

Of that there would be a former president who felt entitled to have a going back and forth to any degree of documents that were asked for by our national archives and beyond. director clapper, thank you for being a part of the show tonight. i appreciate it. >> thanks, laura. >> really kind of stunning to think about that, the idea of what authority the president would have and a former president at that, and what statutes really are governing it. look, the fbi is warning of an unprecedented number of threats against the bureau. a day after an armed gunman tried to breach the cincinnati field o...