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>> bringing these boxes to mar-a-lago would have required just trump and mark meadows and a u-haul. many people or could be implicated in this, michael. >> of course. hes always surrounded himself with people who will do the bad thing that he wants them to do. they may even do it before he asks them to do, it because they understand what those standing orders are. the standing orders are protected him. protect the conspiratorial culture. >> but that wont work when it comes to the legal argument ...

Is a very confusing statute to people because when you hear it, youre like, oh, that means that the person is a spy. sure, it could. but the espionage act which dates back now over a century has multiple provisions. some of the provisions deal with old school spying, robert hanson, albert james, spying for the russians. other provisions deal with leaking classified information to the media. other provisions deal with the mishandling of classified information which would pertain to what were talk...

Search warrant. talk to me about them, because the whole issue of whether he declassified or didnt declassify really is immaterial to those three laws that they cited. >> yeah. thats absolutely right. i do think it is worth noting that with respect to the espionage act, although it is technically immaterial, it does require it to be national defense information, and there is an argument that the classification system is what fills in the -- and provides gloss to what that means. so thats probabl...

Could you have such a standing order. what if the president in his head said this document is declassified but never tells anybody. that is what john bolton was getting at. it raises interesting almost metaphysical questions. the president does ultimately control the classification system, it is a product of executive order that systems from the presidents power as commander-in-chief. and it exists in parallel and separate from the most part legal controls on disclosure of national security secr...

Act and not be spying in the traditional sense, but it does cover the misuse of classified -- basically whats called closely-held information in that statute. it was actually enacted before the classification system. and i expect that that statute to be listed on the search warrant. >> evan, you noted the likelihood that some of these documents may contain information that is sensitive in a national security perspective. will we ever find out exactly whats in these documents that were seized? >>...

Documents tell us about the ongoing investigation. >> reporter: on friday a federal court in florida released seven pages of documents that represent that unprecedented search and seizure that took place, the home of former president trump in south florida. so what we learned from these records is that there were 33 different boxes or items carried out of mar-a-lago that become evidence in this ongoing criminal probe into the handling of federal records. that includes a leather bound box of docu...

Vigilant when working in and around fbi facilities. a closer look now at the documents unsealed on friday and what they reveal about the justice departments investigation. >> on friday a federal court in florida released several pages of documents that represent an unprecedented search and seizure that took place at mar-a-lago, the home of former president donald trump in south florida. so what we learned from these records is that there were 33 different boxes or items carried out of mar-a-lago...

Whether a document has been deemed classified. instead, it makes it a crime to obtain, without authorization, documents related to the national defense that could be used to harm the united states or aid a foreign adversary. so, whats he is arguing doesnt even matter charlie. doesnt even matter charlie. >> thats right, all three of the criminal laws cited in the search warrant do not turn or depend on whether the information was classified. so, maybe trumps lying, maybe he is telling the truth a...

Beyond top secret, and the special access program for nuclear when i was deputy director of national security at the fbi, i could not see. that tells you if the reporting is right how sense this have at the stuff. thats about as high as you can get in the classification period. >> and theres good reason for that. from a natural security stance, just how dangerous is it if this kind of material was taken to his privacy residence? >> absolutely. republicans are parsing the classification system at...

Material and reportedly information relating to nuclear weapons. theres no plausible basis under law for that material to be residing on the private residence of anybody, even a former president of the united states. >> i just want to linger, tssci information, these are terms that are not in the recollection -- lexicon of americans. if you can explain what sort of material that is. >> in a classification system there are three levels, confidential, secret and top secret. each are defined in law...