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Attempts to shield the american public from information. we've also heard about security levels at the top of the white house. the security clearance does not apply to elected officials. they get to vet their candidate through the electoral process. from a broader category standpoint, the fact this information is being withheld, is problematic and perhaps is something congress should think about in future years, actually requiring some of these disclosures of voters have a right where the problems are before we put someone in the highest office in the land. >> he also said the president would ...

Allowing our agents that do that now to be freed up to go and be redeployed to the line. we will add to capacity using that workforce to raise security levels. steve: okay. ron, are they going to be armed? >> they are going to be protected self-defense. none of the individual assignments we are giving them will require them to be armed because they are not going to be doing law enforcement duties. they will have the ability to defend themselves depending on what the assignments are. steve: sure, one of the reasons the president ordered the national guard out last week in the omnibus bill he di...

Security levels you could have in the u.s. government. there's no position in my organization that was as sensitive as the staff secretary to the president of the united states. this is a position. this is a person who sees everything that goes to the president's desk and deals with from across the u.s. government every sensitive secret that we hold. >> for more than a year he did not have clearance. there's others, dozens in the white house at high levels, including jared kushner. that summit set the table for the ensuing conflict, economic conflict and military embargo. >> the whole year of ...

>> yes, i am. quite frankly i wonder how bad does this have to get before we realize we have to do some things fundamentally differently. i would argue if you look at the internet of things, you look at the security levels within those components, folks, this is going to -- we think the problem is a challenge now, but we just wait, it is going to get much, much more, exponentially from a security perspective. >> director pompeo, north korea is likely to press ahead with more tests in 2018, missile tests. noting that north korea's foreign ministry indicated a test over the pacific may be under ...

And i would argue if you look at the internet of things, you look at the security levels within those components, folks, this is going to order of magnitude. if we think the problem is a challenge now we just wait, it will get much more expo ten usually from a security perspective. >> director pompeo, north korea is likely to promote tests noting that a test over the pacific may be under consideration by pyongyang. what have's the regional reaction this kind of test would be? >> senator, thanks for your question and if i may take one minute to say, i've been doing this a year and i want to exp...