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>> doesn't matter who is physically present. or if the door was shut. >> phone was off, andrew. >> that doesn't matter either. the reason you don't allow electronic devices in is because they can easily be co-opted by foreign intelligence services whether they are turned on or off and used as recording devices or in other ways that undermine our ability to review and discuss and contain top-secret material. so there's very important reasons why we don't allow them in to s sk iffs and no matter who does it is a violation. >> normal people working in the government who did that would get written...

Or if the door was shut. >> phone was off, andrew. >> that doesn't matter either. the reason you don't allow electronic devices in is because they can easily be co-opted by foreign intelligence services whether they are turned on or off and used as recording devices or in other ways that undermine our ability to review and discuss and contain top-secret material. so there's very important reasons why we don't allow them in to scifs and no matter who does it is a violation. >> normal people working in the government who did that would get written up and it would go in their security file. >> th...

Longer have a need for your expertise. rich brown called the pentagon shortly after 8:00 p.m. that night just to ask ana a question, but she left. and he thought, well, that's odd. rich thought that her actions in leaving the pentagon early was suspicious. so the first thing i did was take a look at our own records. everybody at dia has a personnel file. everybody has a security file. i reviewed our files on ana montes, and what i found was an absolutely model employee. ana had been working at dia since 1985, and she'd never committed a security violation. she rose through the ranks. very quic...

His, you know, his election is going to be delegitimized, if he feels that and is not willing to put the emphasis on what is really at stake here, we as american citizens have to do that. >> david, before we go, cyber warfare is a silent killer. we did see tougher sanctions placed on russia, but did the government even realize what they are doing given what russia is capable of doing, what they have already done in terms of hacking? are more sanctions just child's play? >> we need a whole new legal regime, we need new kinds of revelations. the chinese did a big hack of the former government em...

Embarrassing piece of news the white house didn't need. >> well, it came as a great surprise to me that the white house didn't know it. i firmly felt that they had that security file. and it seems to me that if the fbi tells the white house the guy is clean, he's clean. >> reagan's chief of staff was fighting with nancy reagan and then his communications director turned out to have been in the hitler youth as a grade-schooler. within days, both men would be out of the administration. john koehler lasted just 12 days on the job, making him the shortest serving white house communications directo...