that memo was unclassified then. it's still unclassified. it's in my book. the fbi cleared that book before it could be published. that's a false statement. >> bret: what about not telling congress that he was an agent for you or worked at the fbi or somehow was some employee that had you 35,000 fbi employees. >> none of that was true -- i mean, i described you him i hope good friend. expose bias connection to the guy? he had left his fbi job months earlier. there is lots of other connections. i know him because we were prosecutors together. i didn't mention that i taught with him at columbia. i didn't mention that i think i offered to congress a fair picture of of my connection to the guy. >> bret: okay. director comey, stand by if you would. more with the former fbi director after a quick break. including the reaction to andrew mccabe. infamous text messages we learned more about them today and the future of the fbi. ♪ k this case wide open! turns out the prints at the crime scene- awwwww...did mcgruffy wuffy get a tippy wippy? i'm serious! we gotta move f

. >> i sent one memo, unclassified, still unclassified. to my friend dan richman. asked him to get the substance of it to the media. i wrote a bunch of memos about my interactions with president trump and i was what was called an original classification authority at the fbi meaning i had the training and authority to make decisions about what should be classified, what shouldn't. some of these memos i decided should be classified. for others, i wrote them, and i was confident they should not be classified. those four, i kept a copy at the fbi and in my personal safe at home. after i was fired, i put together legal team of three people, one of whom was professor dan richman at columbia university. after i asked him to give this information to the media, i gave my legal team four memos that were unclassified. i see no credible claim by any serious person that violated the law. >> sean: it is like obama saying no serious person thing russia could ever have tampering in our elections. contrary to what comey said, we will have multiple credible individuals including joe

, and they insist that the only ones -- [inaudible] unclassified information. does it have to be a change in the government maybe being more open to unclassified remote sensing data as opposed to mostly classified? >> um, i guess i would challenge the presumption a little bit. i mean, one of the reasons that the agency is a gigantic buyer of commercial data is precisely because it can be widely shared with friends and allies as opposed to classified data. so i think there are already fans of that kind of data. i think the tricky part is finding non-governmental customers for this data. and the government, of course, is quite good at processing the data and producing it into other products that it knows and uses. what has been more of a challenge -- and i know it's been long debated in the industry -- is how far down the value chain to go. so if you switched from looking at this as a space issue but more as a geospatial information technology issue, you find lots of other higher value-added projects. and the question to which satellite companies want to integrat

>> who leaked an unclassified public memo? no. judge jeanine: you give a memo to your pal dan and it's not a leak? and you say, jim, it wasn't classified, but it was marked secret, which is classified. then you say as the head of the fbi, i can declassify. you took a document that was written contemporaneous with a meeting with the president of the united states advising him of an investigation. that's a crime. it's a crime to convey any record of the united states or any department or agency to another person. and your fbi employment agreement bars the disclosure of files electronic or paper. remember when barack obama hired you you signed you will not reveal by any means any information acquired by virtue of my official employment to any unauthorized recipient. so now mr. slick, you tell us your friend dan richmond is a special government employee. pray tell, who made him that. who did his background check? like mccabe and lynch you just throw him under the bus. federal regulations require an employee, even he, should not allow

i was asking for these memos to be released, the unclassified version, before reading them because ie american public should have all of the information. it is one thing for me to read the memos and for other colleagues, and then we all come on here and we're all talking about what we read in the memos. it is better for your audience to be able to read for themselves and come up with their own independent judgment. you read through what are seven memos that are an interesting read, that some people might be able to focus in on one aspect or another. some for entertainment, others for just getting factual background on important points. but i just think it is great that all of of this information is out regardless of what was in it, as long as it was going to be a redacted, unclassified version. i was good with signing off on that before i even saw it. >> but congressman, does it not backfire on the president? let me read you what the ranking democrat on the house intel committee said. house republicans are spoiling to manufacture a conflict with the justice department that would give

i sent one memo, unclassified then and still unclassified. to my friend. separately i wrote a bunch of m memos about my interaction with president trump. i had the training and authority to make decision about what should be classified and what didn't. four others i wrote them and was highly confident they should not be classified. those four i kept a copy of them at the fbi and my personal safe. after i was fired, after i had asked him to give this information to the media, i separately gave my legal team four memos which were unclassified. the bottom line, is i see no credible claim by any serious person that that violated the law. the department of justice is all about -- >> one the documents was retroactively classified. lowest level. >> sure. >> so if you are releasing memos which later ought to be classified, aren't you taking a risk that you think you know this is not going to be classified but turns out one of them was. >> you are making educated judgment based on training and experience. >> you did leak memos, is it okay for somebody at the fbi to

>> who leaked an unclassified public memo? no. judge jeanine: you give a memo to your pal dan and it's not a leak? and you say, jim, it wasn't classified, but it was marked secret, which is classified. then you say as the head of the fbi, i can declassify. you took a document that was written contemporaneous with a meeting with the president of the united states advising him of an investigation. that's a crime. it's a crime to convey any record of the united states or any department or agency to another person. and your fbi employment agreement bars the disclosure of files electronic or paper. remember when barack obama hired you you signed you will not reveal by any means any information acquired by virtue of my official employment to any unauthorized recipient. so now mr. slick, you tell us your friend dan richmond is a special government employee. pray tell, who made him that. who did his background check? like mccabe and lynch you just throw him under the bus. federal regulations require an employee, even he, should not allow

>> who leaked an unclassified public memo? no. judge jeanine: you give a memo to your pal dan and it's not a leak? and you say, jim, it wasn't classified, but it was marked secret, which is classified. then you say as the head of the fbi, i can declassify. you took a document that was written contemporaneous with a meeting with the president of the united states advising him of an investigation. that's a crime. it's a crime to convey any record of the united states or any department or agency to another person. and your fbi employment agreement bars the disclosure of files electronic or paper. remember when barack obama hired you you signed you will not reveal by any means any information acquired by virtue of my official employment to any unauthorized recipient. so now mr. slick, you tell us your friend dan richmond is a special government employee. pray tell, who made him that. who did his background check? like mccabe and lynch you just throw him under the bus. federal regulations require an employee, even he, should not allow

i sent one memo, unclassified then and still unclassified.nd it's recounted in my book to my friend dan, and asked him to get the substance out of it to the media. separately i wrote a bunch of memos about my interaction with president trump. i had the training and authority to make decision about what should be classified and what didn't. some of the memos, i decided should be classified. four others i wrote them and w highly confident they should not be classified. those four i kept a copy of them at the fbi and in my personal safe. after i was fired, i put together a legal team of four people, and separately gave my legal team four memos which were unclassified. the bottom line, is i see no credible claim by any serious person that that violated the law. here's a good thing, the department of justice is all about accountability. they're looking at not whether i released classified information, but whether i followed protocol. >> one the documents was retroactively classified. lowest level. >> sure. >> so if you are releasing memos which la

. >> the unclassified encounters, wrote them up on my personal computer.i kept a copy here. i was banned from the property. one of the orders that was issued i was never to be allowed back on fbi property plieklike killed somebody. comey controversially gives a memo off to the friend who read it to "the new york times." >> the president tweeted calling you a leaker because of that. first of all what is your rinse to president trump? >> look, it's true. i mean i am the one who testified about it. that's how people know about it. i gave the unclassified memo to my friend and asked hem to give it to a reporter. that is entirely appropriate. >> reporter: the white house tried to get out in front of comey's book and interview. launching a full-scale counterattack. the president tweeting calling comey a slimeball, a leaker and a liar. >> comey will forever be known as a disgraced partisan hack. >> last friday, press secretary sarah sanders reading from a prepared statement. >> this is nothing more than a poorly executed pr stunt by comey to desperately rehabilit

i told him about it unclassified conversation with the president. >> but it was work products. no, it was my personal memoir. it was always like mine like a diary. >> to austin to give or leak or whatever you call it a memo? we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak. >> it is not. greg: because comey wrote about official stuff in his diary and then related to his buddy it's not leaking. what is it? who share stuff from a diary with a body. you're the fbi director not carry from sex in the city. anyway, a great interview always reveals contradictions and weak defenses. bret did just that. i wish i could get my news from him wherever and whenever i wanted. >> sometimes i need the hard news of the day. other times i just want to cuddle. why can't i have both? >> now you can. he's fair and balanced and unafraid to snuggle. squeeze his tummy and get informed. >> the 41st president wants to go to maine this summer. >> is there when you start your day. with his signature strike tight, but it's where and a flagman he fits in with the most sophisticated crowd. >> jeff sessions will

i told him about it unclassified conversation with the president. >> but it was work products. no, it was my personal memoir. it was always like mine like a diary. >> to austin to give or leak or whatever you call it a memo? we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak. >> it is not. greg: because comey wrote about official stuff in his diary and then related to his buddy it's not leaking. what is it? who share stuff from a diary with a body. you're the fbi director not carry from sex in the city. anyway, a great interview always reveals contradictions and weak defenses. bret did just that. i wish i could get my news from him wherever and whenever i wanted. >> sometimes i need the hard news of the day. other times i just want to cuddle. why can't i have both? >> now you can. he's fair and balanced and unafraid to snuggle. squeeze his tummy and get informed. >> the 41st president wants to go to maine this summer. >> is there when you start your day. with his signature strike tight, but it's where and a flagman he fits in with the most sophisticated crowd. >> jeff sessions will

. >> i sent one memo unclassified then, still unclassified and it's recounted in my book to my friend dan richmond and asked him to get the substance but the memo itself out to the media subsequently i wrote about my interactions request president trump i was an original classification authority at the fbi i had the training and authority to make decision base what should be classified and what shouldn't. the bottom line is i see know credible claim by any serious person that that violated the law. >> you did leak memos. i mean is it okay for somebody at the fbi to leak something, an internal document even if not classified? isn't that leaking. >> well there is a whole lot wrong with your question. first of all i didn't leak memos. i asked a friend to communicate the substance of one. >> can i finish. >> sure. >> one unclassified momo to the media. i was a priet private sin not a fbi employee. >> but it was an internal document a document written by a fbi director. if you tell somebody don't give them the document but tell them in what's in the document that's a leak. >> not to get ta

that memo was unclassified and still unclassified. it is in my book. the f.b.i. cleared the book.s a false statement. >> rick: juan williams is co-host of the five. matt schlapp. thank you for being here. the squirm moment was bret challenged the memos that he wrote after meeting with the president as f.b.i. director in the white house and he called it his personal diary, juan, how do you defend that? >> i think that's what it is according to mr. comey. he was the f.b.i. director and said it was not classified. never was classified and in fact he argued that the f.b.i. had to approve his book and the memos are in the book. >> rick: but it is government business, is it not, matt? >> i worked at the white house for four years. when i left they told me i can take no emails, i can take no memos or paper with me. i was a lower staffer. the idea that he concocted memos for the sole purpose of prosecuting a case against donald trump in the press is a violation of the oath he took, the pledge with taxpayers, and this charade has to stop. this is a disgusting display of explaining what his

i told him about an unclassified conversation with the president and i didn't consider it part of anile, all the things i've talked about. >> you wrote it as an fbi director it was a work product. >> no it was not. >> you said in the memos i said i don't do sneaky things i don't leak i don't do weasel moves, but i mean, we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak isn't it? >> it's not. maria: those comments from former fbi director james comey sparking a fire storm of reaction over the definition of leaking let's bring in james kallstrom stroma former assistant director of the fbi and get his reaction. jim always a pleasure to see you thanks so much for weighing in this morning. you know, if it wasn't important and part of the fbi work then why did it have an intent to get a special counsel? [laughter] the whole thing, your reaction, jim kallstrom? >> well, you know, i think he's lost his mind, james comey. i don't understand what his act is, this book tour and all this nonsense about it's not a leak. of course it's a leak, without question and this conversation with the president

it is -- it does appear that some of the information that he originally wrote as an unclassified memo has been retroactively classified by the department of justice. of course he was originally, i believe, as fbi director would have been an original classification authority so if he wrote a memo that he thought was unclassified and it was not derived from some other document, these are memos that he was creating himself, it seems to be a stretch to allege that there was classified. but again, i think there's more reporting that we will see in that area. >> well, there is reporting from the "wall street journal" that comey gave classified memos in two of those memos to this professor at columbia law school and we always have reporting here from cnn that part of what this ig investigation is going to look into is the additional people he may have also shown those memos beyond those he has already spoken of, which is his professor as well as the fbi investigators who are involved in robert mueller's probe. and then of course the lawmakers who have seen them. but josh, i have to ask you t

i gave that unclassified memo for my friends and asked him to give it to a reporter.t is entirely appropriate. >> sean: james comey line? all signs now tonight points ts. listen to how comey's story is changing during his recent interview with jake tapper. take a look. >> senator grassley, chairman of the judiciary committee, said there are seven memos. four of them are classified. is that right? >> i don't know because i don't have the memos. i don't knowe exactly how many there are, so may be memos, so maybe email sprayed somewhere between five and ten, maybe seven, maybe each. when i created some of them, they were classified, i don't know how many. >> the classified what is obviously for them when you told president trump in trump tower about what was in the two page and ask about the summary in the steele dossier. what were the other classified about? >>re i can't answer that if they are classified. >> sean: another damning sign that he leaked the information comes from the memos. out of the dutch department released only the redacted version. why redact informat

one unclassified memo to the media. i was a private citizen. i was not an fbi employee. >> it was a document while you were fbi director. if you tell somebody don't give them the document, but tell them what is in the document? >> a leak is an unauthorized disclosure of unclassified information. we investigated leaks. >> semantic debate. comey repeated that donald trump is morally unfit to be president. when anderson asked if he was thinking of running for office one day. he said never. >> he sold a lot of books. this has been quite a book tour. i wondered if he is speaking so much to so many outlets. is he giving up the book? why buy it? 600,000 in the first week. >> more than "fire and fury." >>> regulators say the largest online lending misled customers of fees and took money from accounts. lending club connects borrows to investors. the ftc says lending club lures customers with the promise of no fees and deducts hundreds of thousands of fees up front. they accuse lending club of withdrawing payments from accounts twice and charging custome

that memo was unclassified than it is still unclassified. the fbi cleared the book before it could be published. that is a false statement. heather: bret baer talks about the newsmaking interview and tom brokaw, car up in the me too movement, details on the allegations against him coming up. it took guts to start my business. but as it grew bigger and bigger, it took a whole lot more. that's why i switched to the spark cash card from capital one. with it, i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. everything. what's in your wallet? dray, when he was younger, he loved to smile; and we knew he would need braces because his teeth were coming in funny. that's when he had the bunny rabbits. we called him the bunny rabbit. now, those are the same two front teeth, there, that they are now. then dray ended up having to wear braces for 5 years because he never made it to appointments, because he was busy playing basketball. if he missed practice, he don't get to play in the game. this is the picture that was on the front page of the newspaper

i told him about it unclassified conversation with the president. >> but it was work products. no, it was my personal memoir. it was always like mine like a diary. >> to austin to give or leak or whatever you call it a memo? we can argue what a leak is but that's a leak. >> it is not. greg: because comey wrote about official stuff in his diary and then related to his buddy it's not leaking. what is it? who share stuff from a diary with a body. you're the fbi director not carry from sex in the city. anyway, a great interview always reveals contradictions and weak defenses. bret did just that. i wish i could get my news from him wherever and whenever i wanted. >> sometimes i need the hard news of the day. other times i just want to cuddle. why can't i have both? >> now you can. he's fair and balanced and unafraid to snuggle. squeeze his tummy and get informed. >> the 41st president wants to go to maine this summer. >> is there when you start your day. with his signature strike tight, but it's where and a flagman he fits in with the most sophisticated crowd. >> jeff sessions will

richman a copy of a two-page unclassified memo and asked him to get the substance out to the media. >you called him a good friend and a professor but you didn't reveal he was special government employee for the fbi to work on special projects. why? >> because it wasn't relevant. he was an fbi special government employee until february of 2017. >> did you leak other things to mr. richman? >> yeah. i was smiling, brett. i don't consider what i did a leak. i told him about an unclassified conversation with the president. >> jon: let's bring in leslie marshall and lawrence jones, editor in chief of campus refor reform.org. thanks for being here. is it a leak or not? >> it's not whether it's a leak or whether it was a criminal offense. we're getting into the weeds with semantics on that. i do think the information was leaked. but what was the intent of james comey? when we look under the current actual actually obama executive order, he had the power to declassify attorney. was it a threat to national commit? if it's not been proven, he has not committed a criminal offense. might have been

cold war vietnam era and peacetime era individuals that were unclassified jobs in their branches and their superduper secret. i understand what you've gone through. what would you advise some individuals who may want to write a book and i've been talking to defense review. what i'm considering doing something like that. how difficult it is and what are the pros and cons when you're not an author to try to do something like that. i will take your answer off the air. have a great day. it doesn't matter if you're an author or not. if you're gonna be applying for that freedom of information act request that is the beauty of our law. you don't have to be anybody can do it. and of course lots of citizens make for those requests. they talk about the great law that makes his agency available. i worked on this for three years from start to finish. this request that you place two years agord let us know if you're still interested. thank you for taking my call. my question is where there any african-american women doing the code breaking?g? the code breaking. they were very paranoid about backg

i think that means this is unclassified. this letterer serves as conformation under my authority as an fbi official -- excuse me fbi original classification authority, that your hand written notes from your conversation with former director comey are unclassified. understanding they were marked as top secret without your consultation, this letter memorializes a dually authorized finding that contents of your note are not top secret or classified lat. you're getting the importance here. that very start of january, boente asks for legal representation or a commitment to pay legal fees. couple of weeks later, he gets a certification that his notes, hand written notes from specific conversation with james comey should not be marked top secret. now we don't know for sure because these are the've got. what we surmise is that he's getting his ducks in a row while preparing for his interview with muellerer or preparing to hand over those notes to muellerer as part of this interview. we have also obtained those hand-written notes fro

in one of the unclassified memos, it includes a famous conversation where trump allegedly told comey quote i hope you can see your way clear to letting this go. to letting flynn go. there is new information, including a claim, that president trump told comey at a dinner at the white house in 2017 that he had quote serious reservations about michael flynn's judgment. and reince priebus asked comey if flynn was under investigation days before flynn was fired. and lawmakers jumped on the news. like minority leader nancy pelosi tweeting the release of the comey memos are further proof of trump's contempt for the rule of law. republicans say the memos are more indicative of what the memos don't say. they don't say and former director comey never felt obstructed and never wrote he felt threatened. dave and christine. >> thank you, laura. as for the salacious details, those details about the visit to moscow that bothered him so much. here is just one quote. he went on at great length explaining he has nothing to do with russia. this is comey speaking of trump. has a letter from the largest

i told him about an unclassified conversation with the president. >> you give him nothing else ever tore? >> that indeed is the former fbi director, james comey, on the special report denying he leaked classified information. he decided to share memos with the president. this comes as the wall street journal reports at least two of james comey is memos that contain material that is considered classified. his comments left there's a sparking firestorm of reaction including accusations of a double standard. let's try to pick us apart. we are bringing robert driscoll. former deputy assistant attorney general. welcome, good to have you. i will start with a word and become a definition of the word. you heard it there, leak, how do you find that? >> i was at a leak is any unauthorized mission of information from a company or government to a reporter. and i think the reason the former director spokesman is not necessary the classification issue as it is testimony before congress where senator grassley asked him directly have you ever essentially information related to the clayton case or the

have two relatives of mine that are cold war vietnam era and peacetime era individuals that were unclassified jobs in their branches and they are superduper secret so understand what you have gone through again. congratulations. what would you advise an individual who may want to write a book i have been talking to defense review i have a good relationship with them. and considering doing something like that. and how difficult that is and what are the pros and cons and i will take your answer off the air. >> guest: it doesn't matter if you are an author or not if you are applying for freedom of information act are mandatory declassification act that is the beautiful part of the law that you don't have to be anybody as anybody can do it a lot of people put in the foia request file that request and take advantage of this great law that obligates the federal agencies to make this available and also will be patient because some of these requests can take years. >>host: years? how long did you work on code girls? >> guest: three-year start to finish i did get a loss of records declassified but i'm

i gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked him to give it to a reporter. that is entirely appropriate. >> sean: all right. so is james comey lying? all signs tonight point to hey. listen to how comey's story is changing during his recent interview with jake tapper, take a look. >> senator grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee says there are seven memos. he says four of them are classified. is that right? >> i don't know because i don't have the memos, i don't know exactly how many there are. some may be memos. some may be emails. there is somewhere between 5 and 10. it may be 7. it may be 8. i don't remember. i think some of them -- i know when i created some of them they were classified i don't know how many of that group. >> one of them the classified one is obviously from when you told president trump in trump tower about what was in that two-page annex about the steele dossier, the summary of what was in the steele dossier. what would be the other classified ones be about? >> well, i can't answer that if he are classified. >> sean: now, of

that memo was unclassified then. it's still unclassified. it's in my book.ared that book before it could be published. that's a false statements. >> joining me now, ben with it -- wittes. >> what do you believe james comey's goal was with this book? >> i would have to ask him that. i think he has a story to tell. and he has an argument that he wants to make about what ethical leadership is and is not. and he wants to talk about that in the context of both decisions that he made in leading the fbi and in other context and in the context of looking at the incumbent administration and its behavior. >> do you rememberious wh >> do you rememberious what you remember about this critique from susan collins about comey's book. >> is it potentially disruptive to the mueller probe? >> that's what worries me. i cannot imagine why an fbi director would seek to essentially cash in on a book when the investigation is very much alive. he should have waited to do his memoir. that critique specifically, he should have waited. >> i don't know the details of mueller probe. so

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i gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked him to give it to a reporter. that is entirely appropriate. >> sean: all right. so is james comey lying? all signs tonight point to hey. listen to how comey's story is changing during his recent interview with jake tapper, take a look. >> senator grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee says there are seven memos. he says four of them are classified. is that right? >> i don't know because i don't have the memos, i don't know exactly how many there are. some may be memos. some may be emails. there is somewhere between 5 and 10. it may be 7. it may be 8. i don't remember. i think some of them -- i know when i created some of them they were classified i don't know how many of that group. >> one of them the classified one is obviously from when you told president trump in trump tower about what was in that two-page annex about the steele dossier, the summary of what was in the steele dossier. what would be the other classified ones be about? >> well, i can't answer that if he are classified. >> sean: now, of

and even the unclassified version of the strategy is unmistakably blunt, a characteristic i share. the -- the strategy calls out areas of current practice that need to be addressed, but it also calls out ten or a dozen areas of modernization priority, areas in which the department and the national security community in general must modernize to get ahead and keep ahead of our adversaries. that modernization is exactly -- that set of priorities is what has been handed to the research and engineering establishment to address. my job is not f-35. my job is what comes after f-35. what are we doing to modernize our way of war and the weapons we bring to it that we don't have today. so those ten or a dozen or so priorities that are called out in the national defense strategy, everything from artificial intelligence to micro electronics to directed energy weapons, to more comprehensive missile defenses, to more comprehensive space, offense and defensive capability, across the board, those are my priorities. and that's why. the history lesson is why they are priorities and why i believe an

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i gave that unclassified memo to my friend and asked him to give it to a reporter.appropriate. >> that's very issue is in dispute. the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee grassley -- if that number is true, that means at least one of the disclosed memos contained classified information, bill. >> bill: thank you. a lot over there. catherine herridge in washington >> sandra: pete king of new york, a member of the homeland and security committee. howard kurtz. let's start with congressman king first. thanks to you both for being here. the i.g. report, what does it tell us? >> it's devastating as far as andrew mccabe. the number two person in the f.b.i. accused of misleading testimony or not telling the truth. this is serious from the number two person in the f.b.i. especially on such an important matter as the clinton investigation. but it also raises real issues about jim comey. the director of the f.b.i., here his number two person, the person he relied on, has now been accused of lying and has been forced to -- he has been fired. been an obama poin

i think that means this is unclassified. this letter serves as confirmation under my authority as a fbi original classification authority that your handwritten notes derived from your march 30, 2017, conversation with former fbi director james comey are unclassified. quote, understanding that your notes were marked as top secret by an employee of the justice department without your consultation, this letter memorializes a duly authorized finding that the contents of your notes are not top secret or classified at all. okay, you're getting the importance now of what we've obtained here. at the very start of january, day after new year's day, boente tells justice department he's going to be interviewed by mueller. he asked for legal representation or commitment to pay his legal fees. couple of weeks later he gets a ke certification that his handwritten notes from a conversation with james comey shouldn't be marked top secret. that was improper, they are not classified as all. now, we don't know for sure, because these are the d

which have advanced chemical programs carry out such research for defense as we showed there is unclassified information the u.s. britain france the czech republic and others carry out such research that might come as a surprise given what boris johnson and others had said earlier but you need to know. about the difference between body britain. and the government let him appear to. side seriously they make novacek. we make light statements one is a hideous weapon specifically designed for assassination the other is a implausible theatrical project with a mysterious buzz they would normally but perhaps not the entire truth or if a thing was they identified the substance very quickly which would mean with absolute certainty that porton down has the substance which it could compare structures samples with not so we innocent of the rule put in down has its secrets for the snow we have and a feeling like that would never have come from us or you know leave the four walls of our facilities would you say to the the theory that it's this is somehow a british operation and you've waved it out of the

have given to the intercept just a few years ago was not classified or interest rate this was unclassified information that just recently the f.b.i. has decided to retroactively classify so i would say that had he been willing to fight this thing he may have had a case where about a career that's interesting that no one what qualities are barkers whether it be you know something like the intercept or an individual reporter what markers should a whistleblower look for in a journalist or organization the ok i know i can trust these people i know. dot their i's and cross their t.'s and i know i'm safe first with what they look for. the technology has gotten so good that the government has weapons that they didn't have even two years ago. and so really the only safe way to do it is to send it to wiki leaks well now if you if you want to give it to a specific journalist here in the united states you're taking a risk in a couple of different ways we know for example that reality when or when she allegedly sent a document to the intercept what the intercept did was they made a copy of the documen

the justice department releasing to congress redacted unclassified memos written by the former fbi director. the details some of his private conversations with president trump and those close to him. and within minutes of the memo's leaking to the press, comey sat down with msnbc's rachel maddow telling her why he felt compelled to record his dealings with the president. >> i also was worried that i was meeting alone with the president to talk about things that were relating to him and to the fbi's core responsibilities and given the nature of the person, as i understood the president-elect, he might not tell the truth about those if it ever became an issue and so i needed a written record. >> the material in the memos is already public record or in comey's new book like trump's demands for loyalty which trump denies doing, but there is some new information, including the president's thoughts on former national security advisor michael flynn. in the memo dated january 28, 2017, comey writes, trump said of flynn, the guy has some serious judgment issues, after a phone call between flynn and