The political consequences of the document discoveries are overstated by the media.

“The politics of the document stuff is dramatically overstated for Biden and Trump”

He suggests the discovery of classified documents is likely due to mistakes and poor record-keeping rather than a deliberate scheme.

“I suspect it was just mistakes poor record keeping poor organization more than anything else was probably staff level work if we’re being honest”

The political impact of the classified documents controversy is currently being exaggerated.

“The politics of the document stuff is dramatically overstated for Biden and Trump”

He indicates that he personally possesses no classified documents.

“do you have any classified documents in your house no”

The Presidential Records Act allows a president to retain classified documents, making Trump's handling of them different from others.

“she didn't mention at all that of course there's the Presidential Records Act and the president can take classified documents and every president has taken classified documents.”

Ministers are generally not trained in the management of classified documents, which leads to security risks.

“but the thing about ministers though ministers don't really get trained in the management of papers there's an assumption that they know what to do no so ministers don't get trained and as you say even civil servants who are highly trained can make mistakes”

The primary purpose of government document secrecy is to protect individuals, such as agents in the field, from harm.

“one of the main reasons we have it and it's incredibly important is to protect agents in the field so if you are producing agent reports in the old days on russia the last thing you want is that report coming up because the report could be used by the russians to try to work out where it came from a”