attested to the fbi that all the records that he had were being kept in a storage room in mar-a-lago. now ourably the most alarming detail in this newly released inventory list. a box found in his office contains, quote, 43 empty folders with classified banners raising big questions about what happened to the classified documents that were at one time inside those folders. in a notice filed with the inventory the justice department says it has already reviewed every item. they add this, quote, all evidence pertaining to the seized items including, but not limited to the nature and manner in which they were stored as well as any evidence with respect to particular documents or items of interest will inform the government s investigation. another key focus today of the investigation how these records which include more than 10,000 non-classified government documents ended up at mar-a-lago, and why these particular records were kept by trump. some of them for more than a year an
pattern here, where a lot of these leaks have come through have been contractors. edward smoednowden worked for a contractor, she worked for a contractor. these are not full-time government employees who have really been inculcated with the importance of holding on to classified information. and you would have thought that with the snowden situation, that the government would have changed this outsourcing of our top security clearances and secrets to people who are consultants. i mean, that just should not happen. i mean, we are outsourcing just too much of our government to private industry, and this is what you get in return, unfortunately. it just isn t right. ken, are you hearing anything go ahead. i was just going to say, that s a really interesting point. it s a persuasive point. but when i speak to intelligence officials about this, they don t agree. there are so many contractors in the intelligence community, and they share the same accesses as government employees. that
pl plus we ve got this cia spill, an enormous wikileaks story and maybe as bad or worse as the snowden situation at the cia. i expect the senate democrats will do everything they can to submit to a prosecutor. can rod rosenstein conduct an investigation impartially? i don t know him but his reputation is of bit as patrick fitzgerald was on the bush administration. so he s got this great reputation and you ve got a tremendous group of people in the aag ranks, they re very confident about justice. it may in fact be the agency which has stood up fastest with the mostnd president trump. hugh hewitt, thank you for joining us on your before new set. hugh talked about self topic,
wikileaks enabled the russian to get this information to a certain place. that is to the left. because of the edward snowden situation, the left had been essentially groomed to accept wikileaks as the unvarnished truth in the same way that some on the right accept other sort of nonnews sources as the unvarnished truth. it didn t go through the filter of the main stream media. it had already been set up with the snowden situation, et cetera, to trust wikileaks. are we not paying enough attention to the fact that this nongovernmental actor julian assange who is holed up in an embassy somewhere to manipulate the election as much as the russians were? i think wikileaks is really interesting, but i don t think it s critical. we saw a website called dc leaks. we saw a hacker probably more a collective of russian hackers as malcolm has written about passing information to journalists right, left and
will ready to confront vladimir putin. correct in. that s right. good morning. you remember that things were frosty back in june, even before the latest drama in the snowden situation. the trip more broadly so far has been dominated by the news conference yesterday in sweden where the president talked about that red line and said look, it was not my red line. it s international community s red line. it s not my credibility on the world stage that s on the line right now. it s the international community s credibility on the world stage right now. what he s trying to do there clearly is spread the responsibility and make it clear to the congress as they weigh this very important decision in the days ahead that in his words, what assad did, what his regime is accused of doing violates international norms. on the putin front, you mentioned back in june, we ve seen those pictures. putin looking down at his shoes basically. the body language suggesting that relations were pretty frosty. l