requirements currently remain at the premises. there is also cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premise. the affidavit revealing startling details about improperly handled documents that were marked with the highest levels of security clearance. a former cia guy. it sends chills up and down my spine when i hear there is information in somebody s basement. not secured as it should. hcs standing for human intelligence control system which is a classification designed to protect people around the world for the u.s. government. in 14 of the 15 boxes retrieved in january by the national archives, 184 documents had unique classification markings. 67 marked as confidential. in a marked as secret. and 25 marked top secret. the top secret stuff, and compartmental, can get people killed. it is completely alarming. nobody down there except, well, not even trump any longer, even has a clearance at all. according to doj, the document is heavily reda
they re moving the political response from trump and his allies that really tried to change the goalpost on this issue. what we saw was a continuation what we ve seen from the justice department, which is a meticulous laying out. they went through the process that s were normal and expectant, even above and beyond, considering this was the president of the united states. we re talking about. they did it early. they made sure that they went and proved that to the judge before they went to mar-a-lago. still, i do not expect that to really change what we see from republicans. i saw a tweet from nick mulvany that said this is just about documents. i think they ll try to centralize on that message. it is the one that insulates trump politically. for many folks, that is their number one goal. to protect the person that super charges their base. and psych the next call being, show us, tell us why these were classified.
ahead with sanctions now before russian troops cross the border. you re starting to hear that call being echoed by both democrats and republicans in washington. the line from the biden administration for now is they are holding off on sanctions, but if russian troops do roll across the border, they will look to impose a swift and united set of responses, not just from the u.s., but nato allies in europe as well. a lot of the sunday talk shows had lawmakers saying we want to impose sanctions now. we ll see if the biden administration picks up on that, raf. joining me, senator tina smith, democrat from minnesota. welcome, senator. good to see you again. let me ask you about the situation first in ukraine, your reaction to the latest development from the u.k. and the way the biden administration is handling things so far. are you among those who believe some level of sanction should be
some lingering mysteries from that day. and she s likely going to decline you know despite what that language is we just heard from the chairman. i suspect she s going to decline to answer those questions and that s what subpoenas are for. honestly, watching her under oath and jared under oath is going to be like an episode of succession where the whole family turns into cousin greg. i think it s going to be interesting. i think the investigators today are focusing on two things. one, donald trump s state of mind and actions. general kellogg, who was vice president pence s national security adviser, said that ivanka was in the room and talked to trump at least twice and indeed was in the room for when there was a call being made where trump was pressuring