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And theres a lot of talk was it subpoenas from the hunter biden investigation that suddenly turned these lawyers into a cleaning crew to start combing through every document. so, what happened there? i know from my time in the white house years ago that there are logs and theres a tracking system for top secret, especially top secret compartment information that goes to the president and vice president. we should be requesting those and i suspect youll see jim jordan doing that very quickly. and...

>> not at all. its a sensitive compartment information. and the control system. this is dealing with human sources at a level that you might be able to not only know what theyre reporting on, but in the hands of the wrong person say in china, in russia, in cuba. they could figure out who is providing that information, go out, round them up, shoot them, you know, imprison them for life would be the worse case. glue but this is handled at the most restricted. >> and a number of us around the table...

Have our committee be able to review what documents were obtained, and in particular, if there was a danger to sources and methods, and the documents werent top secret, sensitive, compartment information, thats a source of damage. in our oversight responsibility, i think its important for that to be shared with us, but i also recognize the justice department has a deep interest in pursuing justice. we have a deep interest in making sure they can do so successfully. so, it may be more sharing wit...

The FBI recovered several sets of classified documents from the former presidents home last week. The seized materials range from confidential to top secret.

Found of the goods. and before i was acting solicitor general i was national security adviser at the justice department. and i can tell you this is incredibly serious stuff that they found. and yesterday when we were on the program and we learned about the nuclear revelations that the fbi was looking for nuclear information and signals intelligence i said we have to be cautious. that is just what they are looking for. we dont know what they will find. but now we know today lawrence its not just ...

Beyond top secret, and sensitive compartment information. so there is no telling what he has in his possession or what his intent really was. >> you touched on this, but i want to go a little bit deeper, your reaction to the revelation of this warned that the espionage act was one of the legal basis used for the search. >> i know that espionage is hard to prove. usually without trying to prove conspiracy to commit espionage. so whats clear from public record is the documents he obtained which ar...

To walk us through what those different labels mean. and what we can glean from this list. >> theres three classifications in the united states government as you have on your screen. confidential, secret, and top secret. but there are also other controls -- additional controls. thats where the as sihai comes, then sensitive compartment information. it can come from mickelson colleges, it could be from satellite intelligence, but whatever it is, its a special program. and they will refer to these...

The potential conflict between our legal and political realities. here is my thought, lets all catch our breath. step back. let the dust settle and hopefully we can learn what was in the documents trump kept and why did he keep them? were some nuclear in nature? were any properly declassified? and were all less adverse means exhausted by the justice department before the search warrant was obtained? those are my questions. i want to know what you think about something related. go to smerconish.c...

Warrant. if its nuclear-related, jazz fied intelligence material, thats extraordinarily serious and i would understand exactly why the fbi and the department of justice would want that stuff back. >> heres the question. is there any chance, chuck, that that kind of paperwork, those kinds of documents, would not be obviously apparent as being classified? i mean if theyre out of the white house, you know that theyre classified. >> yes, they should be obvious to anyone who has handled classified in...