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cnn's natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. >> she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we're learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren't sure whether the...

Assessment that part of the maga movement, much of the maga movement is semi fascist? >> i actually think that's the perfect term because it takes a lot from the leader cult, even though the leader's no longer in office, to the loyalty quotients to the party line, the gop has a pert line, party line and that's the big lie, right? it's acting like a fascist party and more broadly an authoritarian party. the semi part is interesting because today you don't shut down elections. you hold elections and then you fix them, right? so that you -- you know, you have the appearance of democracy like orba...

Pursuing. in many ways, they continue to pursue them, where they don't wander off in other directions, donald trump doesn't, because steve is always pressing this agenda. >> but their conversations are through intermediaries or smoke is signals, correct? they don't actually speak? >> that is -- that's what steve says, they don't actually speak. >> and haven't spoken? >> that is what steve says, yes. >> i want to ask you some specifics about what steve bannon said, again, on the record, because this ises if nating. this gets into the investigations into the preside president's businesses. there...

Agenda. >> but their conversations are through intermediaries or smoke signals. they don't actually speak? >> that is what steve says, yes. >> i want to ask you. it is fascinating. this gets the suggestion the president's personal company is a semi criminal enterprise and bannon responded to you, i think we could drop the semi part. so was he joking or what do you think he meant there? >> i think that he's, he's perfectly straight forward about this. and he's perfectly straight forward about i think the way that most people who have been around donald trump believe. they believe that, you know...