>> Donald Trump shared classified information via Twitter.
Which is interesting because he has been going after James Comey hard, for sharing classified
information in the form of a memo to one of his confidants.
Now in the latest case, Trump was talking about a mishap in Iran and Iranian Safir SLV
set to launch a satellite into orbit.
But it exploded on the ground at the Semnan Site One facility in northern Iran prior to
liftoff.
So there was nothing shady going on with Iran, they were just trying to launch this satellite.
But there was some sort of technological issue, and as a result, there was an explosion.
And so Donald Trump tweets about it using an image that he received from an intelligence
briefing.
So let's go to graphic three, here it is.
The United States of America was not involved in the catastrophic accident during launch
preparations for the Safir SLV launch in Semnan Launch Site One in Iran.
I wish Iran best wishes and good luck in determining what happened at Site One.
Now what's interesting about this tweet is not only the image, which we'll get to in
just a second.
But Trump's tweet was puzzling because Iran had, one day earlier, confirmed a rocket explosion
at the site, which it said was due to some technical issues.
So why would Trump put himself into this conversation and try to clear up the United States and
their involvement or non-involvement, when Iran already put out a statement saying, this
is what happened, it was a tech issue and that's it.
>> So there's two possible explanations, one which is definite and one which is speculative.
So one is, he's a child, that's definite.
So he's like, your rocket blew up.
Well, they already said their rocket blew up.
Yeah, we have the pictures of your rocket blowing up.
Goddammit, we have a child for a president.
>> We do.
>> Okay, and the second possible reason which is more speculative is that it wasn't a technical
difficulty, it was either us or Israel.
And so that's Trump then being a double child and rubbing it in like, you're having technical
difficulties with your satellite, right?
And I mean, who does diplomacy like this, a total, utter buffoon.
And so by the way, James Comey, the Inspector General, chastised him and clarified what
he released was not classified.
Hilary Clinton, lock her up, lock her up, because of emails that might have had classified
information.
Well, this is definitely classified.
>> This is 100% classified, and I just wanna note that the Inspector General's investigation
into what Comey did indicated that the memo had confidential information in it, but it
was not deemed classified.
Right, so there's a difference in terms of the classifications there.
But I wanna go back to the image that Donald Trump shared in that tweet.
Because that image is most definitely from an intelligence briefing that he had right
before he put this tweet out.
Now, I do wanna go to a tweet kind of comparing what commercial satellites can show us in
terms of imagery, and how it differs from what Trump gets in intelligence briefings.
Right, so right there on the right-hand side is what commercial satellites will show you.
And then on the left-hand side, you have what our intelligence has access to.
Now the reason why it's problematic to share something like this is because it allows other
countries, in this case, Iran, to know what type of spying methods our intelligence community
has.
Right, so intelligence experts have been kinda weighing in on this, and that's what they've
been saying.
But Donald Trump is defending his decision to put this image out there, take a look.
>> I just wish Iran well, they had a big problem, and we had a photo and I released it, which
I have the absolute right to do.
And we'll see what happens, you have to figure that one out yourself.
But we'll see what happens, they had a big mishap, it's unfortunate.
And so Iran, as you probably know, they wanted to set off a big missile, and it didn't work
out too well, had nothing to do with us.
>> Okay, so in a best case scenario, he just told all of our enemies how detailed we can
see what they're doing on the ground.
By the way, Iran has a lot of bunkers, why do they have bunkers?
Cuz they're worried about what we can see if they're working on something above ground.
And we just showed them, and the whole world, the level of detail that we can have.
Now, that's the less problematic scenario.
The more problematic scenario is, somehow it has to do with a source on the ground that
might have helped facilitate a clearer picture.
Okay, I don't know the technical details of how that would work, but I read in articles
that people are concerned about that.
And if it turns out there is someone on the ground who's helping us, Trump probably just
got him killed.
>> Yeah, and also, let me just remind you that one of the issues that has increased
tensions between the United States and Iran is our behavior in their airspace.
Remember, they shot down a US drone, the United States claims that that drone was flying in
international airspace.
I don't believe the US, I'm just keeping it real.
Iran shot down that drone, and that almost led to a full-blown war.
Remember, Trump had ordered an airstrike, and then in the last second, he called that
airstrike off.
I bring that up because, in the context of this latest story, he's really stoking the
tensions that Iran and the United States are already dealing with.
It's a disaster, he's a child, I don't know what his motivation was here.
But oftentimes when a president decides to declassify information and share it with the
public, you know what he does?
He talks to members of the intelligence community to figure out what the proper protocol is.
So he's not sharing government secrets or secrets from our intelligence community with
the public, because that could lose lives.
>> So people sometimes are incorrectly saying in articles that the president did nothing
wrong.
That's not true, what is true is, he didn't do anything illegal.
We care about facts here, and the fact is, the president can declassify anything he wants,
so I'm kidding about locking him up.
Although those were the absurd chants when the Republicans claimed that they cared so
much about classified material potentially getting out that people should be in prison
for it, right?
Now the president can't go to prison for that cuz he can automatically declassify things.
But you should be equally concerned when the president does it.
And is it something that is wrong, well, we just explained to you several different reasons
why it is deeply problematic.
Now that leads me to the ICE raid in Mississippi, why?
You know that when ICE did that raid, they refused to tell anyone, including Child Protective
Services, even though they knew there'd be children left behind after they grabbed their
parents from the factory.
Because they mainly didn't want Trump to find out, cuz they thought the child would tweet
about it.
Now ICE is, nobody's liberal, right, I think that raid was abominable.
I think that they've done some terrible things over there.
So this isn't about politics or policy, this is just, everyone in the government knows
the president is an idiot and can't be trusted.
So they must have been having an intelligence briefing, he was like, I like that picture,
I'm gonna tweet it.
Everybody in the room must have been like, no, don't tweet that.
Goddammit, he tweeted it, I can't believe he tweeted it.
>> Yeah, and if you look closely at the image, it appears, and this is speculation, but other
people have noticed this.
It appears that he took a photo using his phone from the intelligence briefing.
>> God, what an imbecile.
So when they were redoing Air Force One, he's like, I wanna get involved, I wanna get involved.
You know what they had him do?
They had him pick out the colors of the next plane.
And then he bragged about it, he doesn't realize.
They're like, good boy, you pick the colors, Donny, you pick the colors.
He's like, okay, I pick the colors, I pick the colors.
And then he came out on TV to say, I was very much involved in Air Force One.
I picked the colors, they only had blue and white, I thought of red, now it's red, white,
blue.
>> Look, to be fair, I am a lover of interior design, so I get it.
But you gotta get your work done, all right, before you get into picking the colors.
Does he even know the color theory, does he?
>> No one knew color theory until Anna just mentioned it.