instead he said something we ve started hearing a lot from defenders of the former president in the last 24 hours, deflecting from the facts, focusing on the leaks. marco rubio serves on the intelligence committee, explaining away the way the fbi classified documents as a storage argument. this is really at its core a storage argument they re making. they re arguing there are documents there. they don t deny he should have access to the documents. i don t think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they ve done. now senator rubio and others are focusing on apparent leaks. that doesn t seem like the kind of thing you should have in your post-presidential desk drawer. well, let s break this down. first of all, again, we really don t know. let s go back and understand that all of this information is coming from one side and one place. and that is sources with knowledge of the investigation. who are the sources with knowledge of the investigation? the fbi an
documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of that i
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it? well, it s critical for the intelligence damage assessment for them to understand not sort of what his thinking process was but what actions actually were taken with respect to the documents. so, the factual investigation about did anybody else see these documents, were they communicated to anyone, who else had access to them, who was the intention to do with them? so, was there something that triggered the search that was trying to prevent it, or had it just been so long that they had been trying to get the documents back voluntarily that they finally just had to execute the physical search once they got the court order. but now that we know a little bit more details about the nature of at least one of these particular documents and we know the classifications of others, there s consequences beyond just the u.s. national security establishment. as the director was saying earlier, there are foreign policy considerations. there are foreign countries as andy was saying, there are
so much more. just to follow-up briefly on david s comment earlier in terms of the national security implications of the document that was released at mar-a-lago from mar-a-lago. the one additional thing that i would just add to that is that other countries, whether they are allied countries or they are add adversary countries will figure you who they are. whether they are intelligence relationships or foreign policy relationships depends on the united states being able to keep secrets and being able to have information about other countries capabilities that are able to be guarded. so i just want to add that that is one additional reason why the consequences of the severity of that document are so important for our national security and foreign policy considerations. good point. thank you for adding that. great to see you all. thank you very much. coming up, the pentagon is considering how it can support