that former vice president pence is considering a run for the presidency and so the idea is they can finish this up and then he can turn his mind or sights to that goal which is in the future. makes sense. evan, thank you for explaining. joining us now andrew mccabe, the former deputy director of the fbi. andrew, after the three biden fbi searches, how much does one investigation influence the other? was the pence search inevitable? absolutely, victor. the pence search was inevitable. we have to remember that for the government and for the fbi, the first principle issue in any one of these questions of the misplacement of classified material is to recover that material. they want to get out to that place and make sure they have everything that could potentially be there. the searches were certainly the right way to go. sounds like the pence team has
environmentalists. and if you doubt tha that, take a look at what s happening off the east coast of the united states . so-called green ngos are supported, of course, by thee people who give money to inf mass the bush administration are backing the construction of that theoffshore wind turbines that appear to be killing las large numbers of whales in just the last two months, at leaste 10 dead whales have washed ashore in new york and new jersey. on a monday,ain. it happened ag. a thirty five foot male humpback whale died and washed e up on the beach in nassau county on long island, which blakeman is the county executive of nassau. he joins us tonight. misplacement, thank yondu so muh for coming on . so this seems this seems like one of those stories that w since liberals want to save the whales or did when i was a kid, you d think we dion. be getting an awful lot of attention. but it seems likeike nobody wants to talk about it. why is that? o well, first of all, i became ver
case? so for the vast majority of people who work in the intelligence community, the answer is, no, you cannot take documents out of a scif, particularly ts or stci documents. they work with the things that work and don t take home things with them. if something comes up they hop back in the car and go back to the office. if you re a principal, president, vice president, of course, but also the heads of the executive branch agencies that run national security. those folks actually have a need to have access to classified material or to be briefed on classified matters 24 hours a day. right, if the north koreans send a rocket launch off at the middle of the night, somebody in the defense department is going to have to be told what happened. what do we know about it? so the mere need to have access to that information at all times means it s constantly traveling around with you and that creates opportunities for misplacement or inadvertence, things get
the copy of the draft report that was ultimately published. they went and looked at hardware, like printers that belonged to court employees, to try to find out was there any evidence. no one confessed. no evidence surfaced that identified that court employee. and what this report goes on to say is that there are many kinds of steps for securing these highly sensitive documents that should take place. ways to put sort of an electronic key chain on important work that the court and the justices are doing, to prevent it going out the door. they also indicate that they don t have evidence of a hack, so someone getting into the computer system, from the outside. it also leaves open the possibility that there could have been an inadvertent misplacement, although that seems hard to imagine, but they acknowledge that could have happened. someone leaving a copy of the draft in a place where it could have been scooped up, taken out the door, and found its way into the hands of reporters.
that s very inciteful. what i would say is that the content of these documents matter dramatically as to whether they were unintentional misplacement outside of a secure facility or to be shared. remember, david petraeus got in a lot of trouble for sharing classified information with someone that didn t have clearance. that is something that i think is drilling as to what is is the contents of this these documents? carley: feels like the popular opinion when all is said and done neither president biden or former president trump are going to face any sort of legal ramifications for this or be indicted whatsoever. one within a sells out the other. but if regular american mishandled classified documents, the outcome would be much different. how do you feel about that? it s true.