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has been unsealed we have it you may
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have heard and most importantly as you
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see here
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this is something we don't usually get
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we've never gotten it for a former
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president and we had no idea when the
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week started that we'd be going through
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it a documented list of the things that
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Donald Trump allegedly took or stole
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property of the U.S government and
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intelligence material we're going to get
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into this right now we start with what's
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in here we don't start with the law
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although it is the law that brought us
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this information we start with the
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search warrants property and inventory
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list so let's take a look you're going
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to see at the top how this works search
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and seizure warrant see that right there
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you have that on Trump's Mar-A-Lago
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premises page one of it then on page
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five
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and if we can we'll bring this to you in
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full can we bring that up for everybody
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do we have that ability I want everyone
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to see yes exactly what we have I'm
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telling you this is not the kind of
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thing we've ever gotten before and I'm
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going to walk you through what it means
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right now this is the receipt for
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property according to the FBI the items
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listed collected slash seized in that
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legal process from Mar-A-Lago and now I
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want to break down with you some of what
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we're learning this is all brand new so
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let's go through it together about 21
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boxes two photo binders one leather
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bound box of documents one handwritten
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note this is all new today this was not
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released until Merrick Garland went
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forward as you know and called out
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Donald Trump and then it began to leak
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and now it's out officially unsealed we
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also know that the feds on Monday took
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what they described as Roger Stone's
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Grant of clemency and some sort of
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information much of this secret so we
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don't have the underlying information
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but what they describe for the purposes
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of this seized property list as
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information regarding the French
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president
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let's keep going the FBI confiscating
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classified top secret and SCI documents
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that's the type of information that must
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be stored in a special facility for
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sensitive material often called a skiff
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we heard about that a lot in the Mueller
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days and it is legally and physically
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protected
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and walled off from other top secret
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clearance holders we also now know
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tonight new four entries regarding top
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secret documents seized from Donald
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Trump's Home Three entries regarding
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quote secret documents and three
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regarding quote confidential documents
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now that list of seized material runs
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for about three pages in the search War
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all of this being tracked we're going to
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leave this on the screen for a moment
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while I tell you and you could tell it's
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a different kind of news night because
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I'm just going to leave this up for you
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to look at obviously you can't read
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every word what you are looking at right
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now
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is literally the receipts you ever hear
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people say well we got receipts well
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that's what it's legally called received
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for property but that's also in a very
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real way what is confronting rebutting
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and debunking not only Donald Trump but
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so much of what we heard all week from
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some of his Defenders that this was some
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kind of just wild search for things that
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might not be there weren't there this
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and that no
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this is the fruits of the search it's
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not one item it's not two items it is
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according to the material on your screen
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newly released and unsealed a sweeping
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list of government property National
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Security information and some of it top
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secret which our experts will walk us
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through in a moment now the warrant also
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says this was executed in the probe
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based on three federal laws that's the
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legal Authority now nothing in the
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warrant confirms who is under
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investigation for that and while people
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may draw their inferences inferences are
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different than reporting and I'm going
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to get into that in our breakdown
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tonight for you as well
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so these laws could be violated that's
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part of what is the basis for getting
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the material but who violated it the
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warrant doesn't purport to say it has to
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do with improperly handling defense
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information and the final one regarding
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obstruction
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s will be here later on that the warrant
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also tells us exactly where they were
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searching in those 20 acres of
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Mar-A-Lago noting that there was quote
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the 45 office that's the shorthand for
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the 45th president all storage rooms and
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all rooms are areas where those
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documents could be stored
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now
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I wanted to show you as we try to do
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around here exactly what's in this thing
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we live in the internet agent so people
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can of course download it but we have
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done our reporting to walk through some
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of the different details on the receipt
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on the property list
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but if we take a step back before we get
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to the law and I mentioned we will get
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to that later in the program
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the receipts are the evidence the
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evidence is what they found and what
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they found is a lot
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this is allegedly stolen property and
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allegedly top secret
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now in a court case or an independent
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reporting you want to get more you don't
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want to just take the list you want to
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go in and confirm it but the FBI and the
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doj and the Magistrate Judge who oversaw
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this were all pursuing a single goal
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that apparently Donald Trump and his
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lawyers had resisted first under
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negotiations then under subpoena and the
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goal was to get this stuff back
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and the reason why the release of this
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appears to be blowing up in Donald
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Trump's face regardless of whether
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crimes were committed which is a
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separate entity as I mentioned a
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separate inquiry that we'll get into but
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even before you get to that
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they have the receipts he had the stuff
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on site he was fighting the legal
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subpoena
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it has been quite a week one that
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started with a search and then had a
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invocation of the Fifth Amendment right
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not to incriminate yourself on Donald
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Trump's hump day and by Friday we know
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what they were searching for and what
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they found remarkable
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significant
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now let's bring in our experts Pulitzer
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Prize winning colonists from The
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Washington Post Eugene Robinson David
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priest former CIA officer who publishes
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on law fair and is the author fittingly
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of the president's Book of Secrets uh
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David
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based on your knowledge
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did they find a lot of material that
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shouldn't be there and how big a deal is
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it when you look at the classification
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levels invoked
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they found a lot of material already I
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mean we're not just talking about a
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document or two and even in your summary
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it's hard to say but I think you
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underestimated it because each one of
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those entries about confidential
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information secret information top
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secret information the three levels of
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classification each one of those were
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characterized as miscellaneous documents
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so we're talking about probably dozens
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maybe hundreds of different classified
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documents here and including let's slow
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down on that for your point we've got it
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up on the screen so you'll walk us
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through this that's why you are here uh
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absolutely when we see on the screen
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an entry or more three or four entries
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of those documents explain that to us
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please and each one of those entries on
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the receipt the entry actually says
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miscellaneous top secret documents or
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miscellaneous secret documents so we're
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not talking about four top secret
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documents here we're talking about four
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different entries of miscellaneous top
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secret documents now that doesn't tell
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us everything but it does tell us
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something important that this was not
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one document that somehow got misplaced
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and even after being reminded of it and
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getting a subpoena it could not be
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located we are talking about a lot of
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material here including some of the most
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sensitive material for the National
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Defense that the US government produces
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we know that just from this list here if
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you were involved in the recovery of
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this amount of material
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and you were told that somebody had been
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holding this for months while there was
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an active subpoena out for it uh what
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would your response be about the pace of
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the probe if it was just a citizen
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it it blows my mind how patient
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investigators and law enforcement have
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been on this matter listen there are
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cases where people inadvertently bring
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home classified material when they work
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in the Intel Community as I did it
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happens sometimes and when that happens
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you immediately give up the information
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often there's a damage assessment to
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figure out who could have accessed that
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document in that limited amount of time
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we're talking about August 2022 the
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president has been out of office for
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many many months with repeated efforts
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to get this information this is one of
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the most serious violations I've ever
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heard of now do we know who was
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responsible for covering up or possibly
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delaying the delivery of this material
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as you said we don't know this material
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does not say who is culpable here but on
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its basis on the the facts in front of
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us this is a very serious violation of
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both the presidential records act but
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also each of the statutes that we're
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used to justify the search and seizure
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and how many presidents did you serve in
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your role dealing with intelligence
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well I talked to two more than I served
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when I wrote the president's book of
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secrets about their intelligence use and
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I worked under two different
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presidencies and honestly it didn't
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cross my mind back then Ari that this
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kind of thing could happen because
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presidents who got elected and saw the
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nature of intelligence information and
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the risks that men and women took to get
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that information to try to contribute to
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National Security decision making they
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were very careful with this material and
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I can't imagine a previous president
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being this Cavalier with it or allowing
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his people to be this Cavalier with it
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it is truly unprecedented and in brief
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before I bring in gene who has been
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listening intently to you like like some
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presidents may have
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um have you ever seen anything like this
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no uh the closest I've heard is a story
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from the Reagan Administration when a
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White House staffer who was so
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overworked that he didn't have time
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during the day to read the most
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sensitive intelligence made photocopies
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of the president's Daily Brief and took
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them home and stored them in his garage
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the National Security advisor found out
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about that and put a stop to it and no
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charges were filed that's the only
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comparable case to this one but in this
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case it's Mar-A-Lago it's not a National
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Security Council staffer down the road
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from the White House
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Gene people come to you both in your
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writing and and here when we listen to
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you for your vast knowledge having
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covered many administrations this is one
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of those weeks in one of those nights
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where I'm really curious what you think
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about the objective facts of what we're
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learning about this material in the
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context of how many people risk their
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lives in the service to United States
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um I'm wondering if there is a way and I
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know it's hard to do but just as they
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compartmentalize some of this
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intelligence Gene I'm wondering if we
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compartmentalize away everything that
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people feel about Donald Trump good bad
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or in between and take just this
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information imagine it was President X
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where does this fit into your view of
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the significance of this story as
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someone who we rely on to understand
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this national news
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unprecedented
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um unthought of I mean every every
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president I've ever known or watched or
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observed or reported on uh every
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Administration has has been very
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extremely
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meticulously careful with top secret
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information with classified information
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now administrations governments
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generally speaking classify too many
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things there's a lot of stuff that they
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put they stamp you know confidential or
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whatever on that doesn't deserve to be
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but but when when you get to Top Secret
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you get to Top Secret slash SCI that
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that most sensitive information that
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stuff doesn't lie around in a White
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House it doesn't lie around in the Oval
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Office it doesn't lie around anywhere
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much less in the basement of of
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Mar-A-Lago
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