from dublin. hi, peter. dana, we have been told today on the record by a white house official here in dublin the president biden is having the time of his life. that is not something you usually hear about the work trip. and a few minutes ago president biden down played the significance of these document getting leaked. president biden: there is a full blown investigation going on with the intelligence community and justice department and they are getting close. how concerned are you about this leak? i m not concerned about the leak i m not concerned that it happened but nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of that is of consequence. the accused leaker is a man in his 20s who works on a military base and uses the moniker o.g. online according to the washington post , which talked to an unnamed member of a chatroom where classified materials were shared weeks before the pentagon realized it was out there. a chatroom that counts as members some foreign nationals
attorney to oversee the review of the evidence confisicated from his home. so walk us through this heavily redacted affidavit. ned reeka, good afternoon to you. it was heavily redacted, but you know what? there was a lot of stuff we got to see, which is great because this is such an important investigation. transparency is critical. so this was what the fbi was telling the judge why they needed to do a historic search of the former president s home down in florida. they were making the case that basically classified documents had been found before and there might be more to come. take a look at these numbers. this is what they said were recovered from mar-a-lago earlier this year. 67 confidential documents, 92 secret. and going in order from the least classified to most, 25 top secret. and all the experts have said that it s those 25 top secret documents that really made their skin crawl because of what else was in that affidavit. that affidavit explained specifically some
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according to these reports, on our allies, isn t helpful. it is incredibly difficult to engage in these alliances when we have that kind of stuff out there. what i think general keane was making a distinction between what s embarrassing and then the actual sources and methods. whether it s naming human sources or naming collection programs. i haven t received the full briefing yet. i haven t seen how much of that latter was actually exposed. i think that s what he is speaking to. i want to look at the protocols how the stuff got out and how much money we re spending or wasting to try to hide it. vert one other topic. this week the white house said it will introduce sanctions to combat the dealing of fentanyl saying they ll go after the accountability measures including financial sanctions on key targets to obstruct drug trafficker access to the u.s. financial system.
si, those markings indicate special intelligence often related to signals intercepts, stuff the nsa handles from its collection programs and some of the documents at mar-a-lago had fisa on them related to foreign threats, foreign counter intelligence and things like that. some of the most closely guarded secrets that the government does not want hanging around in unsecured locations at a club down in florida, so that s why they asked for the search. yeah, it s pretty significant, you know, the findings had already taken place and then the suspicions ongoing. so are are you able to tell us more specifically, you know, what the fbi was able to tell the judge about what they were expecting to find? right. so what everything i just laid through, that was what they had already got their hands on.