Adam Schiff on the Intelligence Briefings: Hope They Will Dumb Down the Briefing for Trump

‘Give him no more information than absolutely necessary’

EXCERPT:

SCHIFF: "Well, that is the practice. But we've never had a situation where one of the candidates for president has been so criminally negligent when it comes to handling — if not worse — when it comes to handling classified information. So I have to hope, and knowing the intelligence community as I do, that they will dumb down the briefing for Donald Trump. That is, they will give him no more information than absolutely necessary, nothing that would reveal sources or methods, because we can't trust that he will do the right thing with that information. He's been so reckless. So, yes, it does concern me. It is part of a long tradition. They will be wary of what they share with him, and they should."

Video files
Full
Compact
Audio files
Full
Compact