them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c
cite is according to their investigation at one point there was a total of 36 state department officials on the ground at that airport trying to evacuate those afghans, to process all of their information. at the height of the withdrawal, so that is about one of those state department officials for every 3,400 evacuees. they also point out the fact that because of that there were only about 50% of those planes taking off at capacity, leaving the airport five days into this withdrawal. essentially making the argument that there just wasn t enough planning that was going into this and that resulted in this very chaotic withdrawal that we saw. the other thing that this report shines a light on is what they say was the biden administration misleading the public about what was actually happening. what they do is they juxtapose what state department biden administration officials were saying about this withdrawal,
conflict between nato and russia. right. just heard jasmine s reporting from the white house. the biden administration made is clear they don t want boots on the ground or in the air, as it were. you re adamant a no-fly zone is not a good idea, creating one a tantamount to going to war buy russia. walk us through that. tell us why you believe that? so a no-fly zone sounds easy in principle. in practice what it means is putting up american planes, nato planes, over ukrainian air space. striking russian air defenses that could shoot those planes down, and if any russian planes violate the no-fly zone, shooting them down s in its practical implication talking about sending american forces into a no-fly zone into war and why this isn t going to happen. right. where they have to defend that air space and then you are in essence going to war with
ukraine as it faces this onslaught further aggression from russia. remember, president biden has promised continuously he will provide ukraine with military support and humanitarian support in faith for this russian aggression. look at the $200 million release from the state department stockpile as him doing just that. an official told cnn yesterday including anti-armor, anti-aircraft systems and small arms in support of ukraine s front line defenders. this is the second such release from the state department biden ordered in just a few months. earlier this year he ordered another $350 million. at the time u.s. officials told cnn that was the largest president s drawdown ordered in history and went to ukraine as the u.s. tried to support its sovereignty. an official told me yesterday that last payment of $350 million plus this latest $200 million basically comes to about
calculus and start deterring rather than reacting. that would include, one, making it clear to everyone in that chain of command down to the private pulling the trigger up to senior generals they will be held accountable for war crimes, but importantly, the president should put all options on the table when it comes to response. putin doesn t want a war with the united states either. he knows he would lose and he knows where that would go for his grip on power, but if we continue just yesterday the president said, well, we ll have a very serious, a very tough response to the use of chemical weapons but in the same breath, said no u.s. forces at all in ukraine. i think you tell him all options on onthe table and deter him fr going down that road up front rather than reactions after