some 1,000 e-mails to be released. fact it's taken this long for the state department to release these e-mails is both a disgrace and outrage, but add to all of that a bombshell development tonight. the state department is also withholding 22 e-mails because those e-mails are deemed top secret and deemed too potentially damaging to our national security to release under any circumstance, and that's not all. 18 other e-mails between mrs. clinton and president obama also being withheld, but the state department will not tell us why. >> i'm not going to speak to the content of these documents. i understand there is great curiosity much i'm going to put that right out at the top. i am not going to speak to the content of this e-mail traffic. we're aware there is intense interest and announcing this decision now because the process regarding the e-mails has been completed. lou: we'll have a full report on the state department's obviously grudging release of these clinton e-mails coming up here tonight. >>> also, three days

they're censoring 22 e-mails, saying those e-mails had material on them that were at one of the highestevels of classification. so top secret e-mails on her home server. >> reporter: that's right, kate, the state department saying they're not going to release those 22 documents because they contain classified information. this has been an ongoing issue as the state department has been releasing her e-mails over time. they have upgraded some of the classifications of these e-mails to classified. in this case they're saying they meet the highest classification, top secret. well, the clinton campaign already firing back at this decision, kate. let me tell you what brian fallon is saying. he's one of the clinton campaign spokespersons. he tweeted out, this is overclassification run amok. we adamantly oppose the blocking of these e-mails. they said they were classified after the fact, they didn't have this top secret classification when they were sent or received. they are saying they want these e-mails out there and on the table. but the state department obviously taking a very different vi

seven e-mail chains, up to 37 e-mails were upgraded to top-secret. top secret the highest classification level. so far to this point this hasn't happened before. other e-mails that have been talked about having classified information were at lower classification levels. this is the first time at the top-secret level. the state department says they were not marked as classified information, that's a key distinction, but it's still an open question as to whether the information contained in those e-mails was indeed classified at the time that it was sent. here's how the state department john kirby answered the question as to how the decision was made to upgrade these to the top secret level. >> you guys were prepared to release it until the intel community came in and said, hey, wait a second? >> no, i wouldn't say that, matt. as i said, we had an ongoing discussion about this traffic with them. at their request we have decided to make this upgraded. it's a state department decision, we're doing it, but we're doing it at the request of the intelligence

to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified material. >> reporter: in a statement today, her campaign called the move "over-classification run amok, "" "the result of bureaucratic infighting," arguing, "in at least one case the e-mails appear to involve information from a published news article." kirby would not share the topic of the e-mails or whether clinton was the sender or receiver. debating or discussing candidates one way or the other on the campaign trail. >> reporter: he said the e-mails will be withheld from public view and not blacked out piecemeal, like hundreds of other clinton e-mails that have already been released. the clinton campaign argues these e-mails should be released, at least in part, but an intelligence official tells cbs news that some of the information in them is so sensitive, scott, that clinton and her odds should have known never to discuss it over an unsecured system in the first place. >> pelley: nancy cordes on the road in iowa. nancy, thank you. now to the republicans.

clinton used an unsecured home server for official e-mails while secretary of state. the state department is releasing the e-mails, but today, it said that after review, 22 of them contained top secret information. the state department says the e-mails were not labeled classified back when they were sent, but today's revelation raises questions about clinton's decision to use her private system for public business. it is the last thing she needs three days before iowa. nancy cordes is with clinton tonight on the campaign trail. >> hello, everybody! >> reporter: just before clinton took the stage in dubuque, state department spokesman john kirby announced that seven e-mail chains from her private account, totaling 37 pages, were being upgraded to top secret. >> in consultation with the making this upgrade, and we believe it's the prudent, responsible thing to do. >> reporter: top secret is one of the highest levels of classification, reserved for material that, if released, would cause exceptionally grave damage to the national security. the e-mails resided on clinton'

it's the 22 e-mails the government won't release that are causing the biggest stir. >> seven e-mail chains. 37 total pages of e-mails which the state department says were upgraded to the top-secret level at the recommendation of the intelligence community. keep in mind we've talked about classified information in e-mails before, this is the first time where we've had that highest level of classification top secret involved. and that's what led the state department to refuse to release them tonight. >> hillary clinton is careful to say she never e-mailed material marked classified. the fact they weren't marked classified when she received or sent them, that doesn't necessarily absolve her of any responsibility, does it? >> the state department noted they were not marked as top secret at the time but two open questions. one, the state department looking into whether the information, even if it was not marked as classified, was classified information at the time that it was sent as opposed to retroactively. that's important. if you heard from clinton's surrogate. the intelligence community, t

. >> ambassador stevens e-mails, no other member of congress looked at. patrick kennedy's e-mails, so we have 100,000 documents, if my colleagues are not smart enough to find something new in all these documents, they either need another line of work or they need to read them a little bit more care efully. >> you're fo ethe former distri of new york, he's got this case, do you think it's going to have anything to do with the e-mails, there's admittedly top secret information, admittedly top secret information in some of these e-mails. >> i trust director comey, i think he's a straight shooter. i don't want to interfere with his investigation, it's not my job to interfere with his investigation. i'm in a different branch of government, it's his job to investigate potentially -- we're just going to have to wait until the investigation is over. >> you and i are on the same page, i know him, i trust him completely. marco rubio, why did he have to jump out so soon? i mean the guy has a terrible record, he's a smart eguy, but a terrible record when it comes to

the state department says that 22 e-mails from seven different e-mail chains will be withheld from public release at the request of u.s. intelligence officials, because they contain top-secret information. here's state department spokesman, john kirby, just a short while ago. >> i can confirm that as part of this monthly production of former secretary clinton's e-mails, the state department will be denying in full seven e-mail chains found in 22 documents, representing 37 pages. the documents are being upgraded at the request of the intelligence community, because they contain a category of top-secret information. these documents were not marked classified at the time that they were sent. >> and there's the important quote, there, that the clinton campaign talks about, not marked classified at the time. clinton campaign responded swiftly with a statement from spokesman brian fallon that read in part, "we firmly oppose the complete blocking of the release of these e-mails. since providing her e-mails to the state department more than one year ago, hillary clinton has urged that they may be

e-mails to deal with mrs.. and you know the state department didn't want to have to do this. they were forced to. i think it is deadly serious. and i think she is, people say nothing will happen. and maybe that will be true with the justice department. but anything in this administration, hiding and covering up for one of their people would cause a massacre. and last thing about hillary, she's endorsed by the new york times, prior to friday, the entire establishment of the democratic party is terrified of bernie sanders and trying to help her out. and when she said in the town hall. lincoln was her favorite president. by the way, he was the most inexperienced president. and the most experienced president she's compared and endorsed for is the new york times was richard nixon and they share one thing in common. untrustworthy and dishonest, so i don't think this e-mail thing is a disaster. >> when have we ever seen a presidential candidate on network on cnn on monday night and a young man said most of my friends

in these e-mails.give you the broad overview, the bulk of the communication here is about the message. how to handle the message. a lot of these e-mails are between staffers in the communication department and the law department, trying to figure out what message to put out. this is after the shooting of the -- of laquan mcdonald, before the release of the video, before and after the indictment of the police officer involved. let's talk about one particular e-mail just to give you a sense. now, here's the timeline. this is before the laquan mcdonald shooting video was released. there's an attorney who has worked with the city. and he sent this e-mail to one of the mayor's top staffers. i'm going to quote here. it says, i'm concerned that the city may erupt when and if the video gets out. again, this is laquan mcdonald shooting video that shows laquan mcdonald being shot and killed by a police officer. i'm going to continue here. what if the mayor and some community leaders such as father pfleger lead a

for the first time labeling 22 e-mails from her private server top secret. the highest level of classification as demanded by the intelligence agencies. >> none of this traffic was marked classified at the time it was sent. >> just minutes earlier, lester had asked clinton about how the e-mail investigation might affect her campaign. >> anything could happen. indictments could happen. why shouldn't people, if they weigh the electability question, hanging over your head as you march forward. >> because the facts have remained the same. there was never any information sent or received that was marked classified to me. >> for people who are watching this play out and know the republicans will come at you on this with an open investigation, shouldn't people have some concern? >> no, they shouldn't, lester. i just don't see it as anything that will in any way cause any voter to -- a voter with an open mind to have any concerns. >> reporter: clinton's campaign called it a bureaucratic turf battle. >> these e-mails should be released to the public can view them. th

her personal server. >> i did not e-mail any classified material to anyone on my e-mail. there is no classified material. >> reporter: news broke just three days before the iowa caucus. the start to the presidential election year. in a statement, clinton called overclassification run amuck. arguing if at least one case some of the contents appeared to involve information from a published news article. when pressed about the e-mails, state department spokesman john kerby wouldn't say much more. >> i'm not going to get into debating or discussing candidates one way or the other on the campaign trail. >> reporter: while the state department won't release even small portions, they want the e-mails reported to the public. david spunt cbs3 "eyewitness news". >>> in iowa the candidates are crisscrossing the state. making a final push. clinton competition on it dramatic side bernie sanders rallied with supporters in eastern iowa. on republican side ted cruz met with the voters. he has promised to meet with all 99 counties in iowa es on television and ill bring only on cbsphilly d

e-mails found on clinton's personal e-mail rver from her days as secretary of state contained information so secret they fell under the highest level of classification. nbc's andrea mitchell has details. >> reporter: as hillary clinton was campaigning in iowa, the state department dropped the e-mail bombshell. for the first time labeling 22 e-mails from her private server top secret, the highest level of classification as demanded by the intelligence agencies. >> none of this traffic was marked classified at the time it was sent. >> reporter: just minutes earlier lester had asked clinton about how the e-mail investigation might affect her campaign. >> anything can happen. indictments could happen. why shouldn't peop, as they weigh the electability question, worry about this hanging over your head as you march forward? >> because the facts have remained the same. there was never any information sent or received that was marked classified to me. >> for people who are watching this play out and know the republicans will come at you on this with an open investigation, shouldn't people have so

they haven't mailed out dvds or disks. they have actually mailed out the machine. what jeb bush just fedexed -- overnight fedexed out to voters in new hampshire this week is a video player, which automatically starts showing his jeb bush movie as soon as you open it up. it's not the video, it's the video player. apparently, it's too cold in new hampshire right now to literally light money on fire, so they have decided to do it this way in instead. it's almost like jeb bush doesn't know what to do with his $100 plus million which was raised for him when he is supposed to be a competitive nominee. now they have decided they don't want to have any money left over in the coffers, so they're just trying to spend all their money as fast as they can, and any way they can so there is none left to be awkward about. if that is what's going on, the people of new hampshire would probably be happier if jeb bush just mailed everybody in the state a new set of snow tires or a bottle of whiskey or just gave everybody 50 bucks. if you really have to get rid of the money, there's ni

on her e-mail server had 22 top secrets e-mailed.ell, that actually is an act rat station. >> i can take it to hillary clinton because my life is an open book. her life is closed book. her life is one of mistrust of never actually telling the truth when it's important to do it. >> hillary clinton put some of the highest, most sensitive intelligence information on her private server. maybe she thinks she is above the law and it's convenient to read this stuff on her blackberry. this is unacceptable this is a disqualifier. >> msnbc is on the campaign trail with a number of reports. we cover all the angles in iowa. first this report from correspondent andrea mitchell. >> reporter: as hillary clinton was campaigning in iowa, the state department dropped the e-mail bomb shells for the first dumping-to-22 top secrets, the highest level as demanded by the agency there none of this was marked classified at the time it was september. >> minutes earlier, they asked her how the e-mail investigation might affect her campaign. >> anything can hap

mail theft is a serious crime. heister: "the theft of mail is a federal felony. it's punishable by two years in prison for each count." and each piece of stolen mail is potentially a separate count. and while fedex and ups don't have their own investigative arm, the postal service does. heister and other postal inspectors are fully with all the powers that implies. heister: "so throughout the entire year postal inspectors all over the country respond to and follow up with reports of individual mail theft." these boxes are being replaced with stronger, more secure units and residents are being told to pick up their mail at the stead post office in the meantime. the thief remains at large, a reminder the mail is not as secure as we might wish. pearce: "how does it feel to know your mail box was broken into?" pefley: at the stead post office in the meantime. the thief remains at large, a reminder the mail is not as secure as we might wish. pearce: "how does it feel to know your mail box was broken into?" pefley: "i'd like to catch them." in stead, ed pearce kolo 8 n

what would be the kinds of e-mail that would be in a top secret e-mail?hen you typically have top secret, you're talking about things like a drone program for instance that is very secret or intercepted communications. this goes to what the intelligence communications community calls sources. doesn't necessarily means top secret information includes that stuff, but it could. the clinton administration has said one of these e-mails that has come up referred to a "new york times" article that was already in the public domain. do all of these fall into that category? that's still an unanswered question. >> thank you. i want to go straight to brianna keilar. this is coming just 72 hours before the iowa kcaucuses. how are they responding to this bombshell announcement? >> we've heard this is overclassification run amuck. of course they're saying she did nothing wrong, but there's a concern on the part of the campaign how this looks here just a few days before the iowa caucuses. the white house had to answer for this today. president obama has not endorsed a ca

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