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we spoke this morning with david sanger of the new york times who said trump was significantly more interested in the nuclear weapons efforts of north korea and iran than other countries. to be clear, we don t know from this report which country this is talking about. do you expect that this was information about the military, though, of an american adversary? well, we simply don t know exceptional interest in the nuclear capabilities or aspirations of north korea and iran, we all did for national security purposes. but we don t know whether it was a friend or a foe, and the issue is not just about the content of the report, but what it may reveal about our sources and methods and capabilities to find out and learn about another country s military capabilities. so that is a particular concern as well, which why i think it is all the more important that the intelligence community quickly conduct its risk assessment of what may or may not have been released at mar ....
Though clearly they have been suspected of doing worse than trespassing. do you worry they would have been able to gain access to classified information like this that was there? sure. look, you don t know what you don t know. and several of our adversaries have very capable intelligence operations. and so we just don t know the extent that these documents were available, exposed, discussed, maybe taken out of the storage rooms, who knows. that s why it s important to get to the bottom of this very, very quickly. i want to ask you about something else, which is a letter that you signed along with several other former defense secretaries, and former chairman of the joint chiefs, warning of vulnerabilities to a hallmark of american democracy, which is civilian control of the military and how these two roles relate to each other. i want to read part of this letter. it says, politically military professionals confront an extremely adverse environment characterized by the div divisivene ....