and plug the leak. we take this very seriously and we will continue to work closely with our outstanding allies and partners and nothing will ever stop us from keeping america secure. we will continue to investigate and turn over every rock until we find the source of this and the extent of it. dana: this comes as top congressional leaders gain access to classified documents found at the homes of former vice president trump, pence and biden. bill: congressman jim hines joins us in a moment. first to chad pergram who leads our coverage live on the hill. good government is apparently no better at keeping secrets than a click of students in junior high. top house and senate leaders demand all member briefings about the latest batch of documents which were leaked. the pentagon and the intelligence community want answers. deeply unfortunate leak of classified documents is certainly as intense as anything in that now part of the in box as well. we need to learn lessons fr
intelligence committees. they seem to be willing to give everybody a lot of money and they are reasonably supported and they do oversee. this kind of stuff has happened again and again and again. the leaking of information could be a byproduct of 9/11. agencies were urged to share information after those attacks. bill: chad, thank you. chad pergram on the hill. dana: connecticut congressman jim hines is the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. take a listen to secretary blinken who was trying to explain what they are doing from the state department point of view. we have engaged with allies and partners at high levels over the past days, including to reassure them about our own commitment to safeguarding intelligence and, of course, our commitment to our security partnerships. dana: how do you describe your level of concern about the scope and scale of this leak? well, it s very high, dana.
may be a very difficult conflict that could come and wanting to protect american lives. all of us lived through the afghanistan exodus and all of the difficulties that happened there, and the unexpected and unforeseen chaotic developments that happened. so they re trying to put in place some of the basic steps that are fairly standard from a state department point of view and preparation point of view of telling americans to leave the country of ukraine now if they are able and the other kinds of messages they put out, to reduce the risks to americans and reduce the risks to nato partner countries and to try to calm things down from an outer perimeter. those are things the u.s. may have greater control over, controlling what is in the mind of vladimir putin or his intentions much harder to do. and so the message from the u.s. at this point is trying to extend the time for diplomacy, hoping that that will calm things down. but as we understand it, the message that the president gave
the question is will the taliban be open to coordination. and is that safe for the u.s. to try and the u.s. government is dealing with those questions right now. it almost looks comial the way they want to pass the buck to each other. andrea, answer it from a state department point of view. if it is non-military lead, does that mean military contractors to help with evacuations? there are no military contractors. the military will be gone. extractions taking place will be done by helicopter and the muss buses are being told to turn back. people are accepted at risk identified afghans, lawyers,
believe is alan weisselberg. alan weisselberg. that s signed by alan weisselberg. are there other people we should be meeting with? alan weisselberg. among the names that michael cohen dropped, alan weisselberg. he s been described as the one man who has all the receipts including trump s tax returns. the house intelligence committee wants him to testify. tim is back. we know weisselberg s signature is on one of the $35,000 large check that was issued. we know he s not cooperating. i don t think he has much of an interest in cooperating at this point. the extent of what he knows is going to open a pandora box of problems of the trump organization if he begins to