the director of national intelligence, admiral haynes, told congress on friday she s conducting a damage assessment on the risks to national security of the documents taken from trump s home that were not supposed to be there so in the wake of this most recent disclosure, actually the same republicans decided to let trump get away with being held to account back when he used our national security trying to dig dirt on the bidens. they re not still protecting him, are they? they should be very careful with classified documents. i m incredibly careful. i was wondering if i was listening to that discussion if the same things were said when secretary clinton had documents when director comey had documents. you re not answering the question. you were critical of the senator. he turned over which she had turned over when we have here is a situation where the president did not turn over these documents. can you say whether that was right or wrong? he should have turned the documents o
congressman adam kinzinger says looking into the money behind the attack is a crucial factor. i think one of the more intriguing things is going to be some of the financing, right? some of the fundraising. the fact that a vast majority of this money was raised under political stop the steal with no intention of doing anything to so-called stop a steal. it was all about just raising money. turning back now, to the fallout from the redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search at mar-a-lago, national intelligence director admiral haynes has announced her office will conduct a damage assessment related to trump s handling of top secret documents. writing in a letter to lawmakers on friday, haynes says her office will quote lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. house oversight committee chair carolyn maloney and house
after multiple requests from dozens of lawmakers, democrats and republicans on capitol hill, lawmakers received this letter from the director of national intelligence admiral haynes. saying that her office was going to be working and coordinating with the justice department to assess any national security risk opposed if those classified documents taken from mar-a-lago, that we now know because of an unsealed affidavit, contain details about human sources are disclosed. we started to hear, yesterday, some reactions to this letter, to the squinting of this request from house oversight committee carolyn maloney. and house intelligence committee chairman adam schiff. lawmakers really lead this effort and requested this action two weeks ago. they said in a statement yesterday that they are pleased with this response, i think that the affidavit unsealed and confirms their, quote, grave concerns among the government stored at mar-a-lago for those that could endanger human sources. they say i
to ohio leaders seek approval rating remains underwater it s not clear if congressman tim will be there to greet him, arthel. sweep up for it lucas tomlinson live at the white house thank you, eric. eric: federal judge has announced preliminary intent to grant the request for president trump s lawyers to appoint that independent special master to review documents that were taken by the fbi. from the mar-a-lago state by the judge to hold a hearing on this on thursday. today there are new concerns about white mr. trump had the highly sensitive and top-secret intelligence of the first place but congress asking if it led human intelligence sources being compromised. or perhaps worse. citing quote grave concern the document stored at mar-a-lago or those that could endanger human sources. alexander hafez moore from washington. the director of national intelligence admiral haynes has informed lawmakers on the house
documents and that was the first and foremost objective to try to regain possession of them so there would not be any further damage caused and now since there were calls for damage assessment admiral haynes and others will have to look at carefully at how damaging this information might be to our national security interest given that it was unsecured and it was illegally retained for this length of time. we talked since friday about the top secret sci designation which means that it s sensitive compartmented information which i believe means basically you from to look at it in a skiff. you as head of the cia saw a whole lot of those kinds of documents. you have a window as to the kinds of documents. without in any way suggesting you know what these documents are because i know you don t, what are the kinds of documents that get that kind of designation? well, as your other panelist