his personal charges? well, this is the example of the attacks against marco now that he s rising in the polls. that was litigated in the 2010 election. he answered it in his book and has been very forthcoming. he ll release more of the records to ensure that the american people can see what s happened there. but he paid for his personal experiences. mar marco s already addressed that. the attacks are coming. why? because hard coamarco rubio is in the polls and will likely be the next president of the united states. of course, donald trump started that attack. thank you. thank you, andrea. coming up, new information about the death of an illinois police officer. you re watching msnbc.
0 miles away from washington. an nbc investigation finds there are nearly 5 million americans who hold secret clearances. of those, 1.4 million hold top-secret clearance, and one-third of those clearances are held by outside contractors. the wall street journal reports that america relies on spies for hire and notes the number of private intelligence contractors has ballooned from 140 to 6,000 in the five years since 9/11. government contracting is big business and highly lucrative. in the series top secret america, dana priest and william arkin write about the contractor class. nearly 1-% of booz allen hamilton s business is with the federal government, making it a profit making nonunionized version of the federal workforce. having millions of contracted employees with high-level intelligence access poses read out. it s interesting to wonder from a legal perspective how a government program to take telephony meta data from verizon could be tangible to a investigation. it really ra