Pelosi: Trump documents issue 'very serious'

(12 Aug 2022) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington DC - 12 August 2022 1. Cutaway of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks into press confernce 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "As you probably know, I have about 30 years of experience in intelligence, one of the only leaders in Congress, and as far as anybody can remember, bringing security and intelligence to the office. So I watched this very carefully. Rather than some of the aspects of your question, as worthy as they are, I think what is important now is to know the seriousness of what these documents were about, alleged to be about. We don't know. Hopefully we'll see more, but we don't want to see too much more because that might endanger our security." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "When we talk about this, there are laws against the improper handling of of this material. There are laws against that. And the, and we have to recognize that. The this, this information as it is coming across, and we we don't... we'll know more later, is highly classified, well above top secret. It is again higher than top secret. It's top secret SCI. It is, it's about our national security, as we are told. And we'll see how deeply it goes into that." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "Our concern is always to protect and defend and protecting and defending means we do not frivolously treat the documents that relate to perhaps as they're saying, and we'll find out again, all alleged at this point, I don't know any more than is in the public domain. Everybody's holding it very tightly that that that if the nature of this of these documents is what appears to be this is very serious." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "The president can declassify anything. Shouldn't be able to declassify the matters of this seriousness. This isn't declassified. It's just improperly handled. Now, what is it? We'll see. We'll see in the unsealing. And that may not tell us everything still because of the serious nature of all of this." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "Unemotional, serious way, recognizing that this inflaming of of situations that have no basis in truth even and or in disregard of the responsibilities of law enforcement. So, yes, but we again, we have to be no, there are no guarantees. We sign up for this. We have to do our jobs. I know very well how vicious they can be. For a long time now, but certainly enhanced, if that's the word, exacerbated by the statements of the president." ++SEPARATED BY BLACK++ 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House: "You would think there would be an adult in the Republican room that would say, just calm down, see what the facts are, and let's go for that instead of insisting, again, instigating assaults on law enforcement." 8. Cutaway of Pelosi walking out STORYLINE: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the retrieval of documents from former President Donald Trump's Florida estate is a "very serious" situation. "Our concern is always to protect and defend and protecting and defending means we do not frivolously treat the documents that relate to perhaps as they're saying," said Pelosi Friday on Capitol Hill. Pelosi's comments come on the same day a federal judge was to decide whether to grant the Department of Justice's request to unseal the warrant that authorized the FBI to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...