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What may or may not have been released at mar-a-lago. >> what are your concerns about that? as secretary of defense, you were read on to some of these programs that only, you know, a dozen or so people in government had access to. when youre looking at that kind of information, if that fell into the wrong hands, if that became public, what kind of risk would that put people, sources, methods in? >> well, you dont want your adversaries to know that you know what they have or what they can do beca...

Intelligence community. dont forget former president trump undermined the entire intelligence community in favor of russian president putin. so the damage is being done. and has been done. and thats why i quoted from joe who will said the former president constitutes a clear and present danger to democracy and this country. >> mr. secretary, when word broke of these documents that were recovered there at mar-a-lago, there were two main camps of concern. one, weve been talking about these nuclear...

Theres generally nothing on the cover sheet other than a standard format indicate that the contents are classified, if there are in fact contents in them. so, we may or may not know. what we do know is that those who were in the white house with him, people like john bolton have indicated that they tried not to give classified records to the president. because they were concerned of what might happen to them. but sometimes they acknowledged they failed. and they forgot to get the records back. a...

Club. four dozen empty folders marked classified and found in trumps mar-a-lago trade. you have that high level of security clearance. when your sussman of all this? >> look, alex. the headlines in those pictures are scary and dangerous. this should outrage any person regardless of their political ideology or their party affiliation. this is sensitive information it is gathered through very sensitive methods. using sometimes human intelligence sources to provide it to the u.s. government. and th...

Armed police officers. and also they take inventory of these documents. they have people standing, watching as you reviewed these documents to make sure they retrieve them upon completion of the review. theyre often related to covid programs, human intelligence sources. the electronic monitoring of foreign communications and the like. this is whats called the most exquisite of intelligence that the intelligence community keeps. >> congressman, you could see. you think of me with us. especially o...

Damaging to the country. im glad to see the results of that poll, because in many ways, not vindicates merrick garland s strategy of quite patients, keeping his head down, doing the right thing, having the right justice department uphold the rule rule of law. and hoping that the american people, overtime, will observe that and get it. it looks like thats being off. >> the david cay johnston, you literally spent a lot of time sifting through documents about donald trump, trying to get questions a...

Presidency, but what about how he did that while he was president for those four years? i want to follow up and ask you, in that vein, how concerned are you that more top secret records are hidden summer? >> i think what i am most concerned about is what we dont know in terms of who else has seen the documents in those unclassified environments. mar-a-lago is a free-for-all. we have known that it was a counter intelligence target over many years, where there are many incidents there, who had a c...

Comparing it to, quote, an overdue library book. were talking about the nations most highly guarded secrets. is anyone going to buy that? >> i dont think so. its like comparing him to clarence darrow in his closing. it just doesnt -- its not a good analogy. its really distorted, and i dont think anybody thinks that a document that is above top secret that has human intelligence, signal intelligence so sensitive that very few people are even cleared to get it, thats not a library book, don. >> ph...

Intelligence collection and this last part here, talent key hole. not a household name but that is a reference to a highly classified u.s. government satellite program. again, we dont know what was exactly in these documents but looking at the cover sheets, we can tell this information was potentially highly sensitive, don. >> steve hall, what can happen if some of these top secret documents were exposed? >> nothing good. all sorts of bad stuff. i think a lot of people are confused, don, maybe w...

Allies, american civilians whose lives could be put at risk or the people who collected this information. >> reporter: and after each heading marked secret or top secret, the letters sci for sensitive compartmented information. >> and additional category of classification that we apply to documents that you dont get to see just because you have a top secret clearance. they are essentially need to know documents. we keep them compartmented, we restrict the handling of them because the information...