Marco Rubio: the truth has been hidden from presidents (The Age of Disclosure, clip)

0:03 I think there's this assumption that presidents can walk in the Oval Office on day one and say, "All right, take me to Roswell. Show me the alien bodies. I want to see the video of the autopsy. I want to see the whole thing. Open it up." I think that really is a um a uh naive understanding of how our government works. Even presidents have been operating on a need-to-know basis. The rationale, the justification was the president shouldn't know about these things because that way the president always has deniability. All they need is a nod in this direction or in that direction. But, that begins to ramp out of control. Frankly, I don't even know what president would know who to ask. You could go to the director of the CIA, nowadays [music] uh the director of national intelligence, and ask them. And even that person may not know because those people rotate. But, the people three layers underneath them that are there for 30 years, to them it's like, "I've seen these people come and go, and unless they ask, I have no obligation to tell them it exists."