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It looks for former president donald trump. before the search of mar-a-lago this month, the fbi believed that trump held on to classified documents related to national security and was obstructing the investigation. the warrant was based on what they found in the 15 boxes trump returned back in january, including 184 documents with classification, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top secret. and they contained an alphabet soup of some of the most sensitive materials availa...

Officer. i spent a lot of time around highly classified information, special access programs, if i took even one piece of that home, you would expect that i would have federal law enforcement officers at my door, knocking down, seeking to get that back, let alone, hundreds of that. the threat here is that we cannot hold one person about the law or a law for this ongoing threat and potential compromise of national security information. we talked about this with your other panelists, with the kind...

Under seal. >> what about the classifications that we learned about on the documents themselves? when you saw the hcs designation and the mention of the clandestine human sources, what does that mean to you? are we talking cia operatives? how do we interpret that? >> not cia operatives, more likely human intelligence sources, for individuals who the cia, any number of agencies have recruited. individuals that we have -- that are providing information on foreign governments, foreign intelligence ...

>> as you can see, these lawmakers are not being quiet about this. while they are so back on these august recess, we expect those voices to grow even laterally return here to capital in september, alex. >> im sure, they will all raffa. thank you so much that. joining me right now to join this conversation, lisa regan, legal analyst for the -- show and douglas adams, former cia chief for southwest asia and also was a top counterterrorism official during the trump administration. he is also the au...

Act. something that may come out in that investigation. what actually happened with those documents? did trump or any of his team do something intentionally to expose those documents to other places that would put our country in danger? >> and we dont know a lot here, steve, in terms of what exactly these documents revealed, what was in them. we just know about how they were marked according to the affidavit, that there was information that contained clandestine human sources. do you fear that t...

Carry out this kind of damage assessment and sent the same day that the fbi affidavit was released that revealed that trump had kept documents at his home that appear to include information about human sources and other extremely sensitive intelligence sources and methods. now, according to that affidavit, the fbis preliminary review of 15 boxes of documents that trump returned earlier this year revealed that 184 of the documents contained classified markings, including 67 marked as confidential...

Affidavit before the search of mar-a-lago earlier this month the fbi believed trump held onto highly classified documents related national security and that there was evidence he was obstructing its investigation. the warrant was based on what they found in the 15 boxes that trump returned to the national archives back in january, those included 184 documents with classification, 67 of them marked confidential. 92 documents were marked secret. and 25 were marked top secret. and they contain an a...

Minutes. si, those are electronic intercepts, the most sensitive things that our intelligence community cannot do, and the techniques used. it could be singular nature. conversation could be one of these documents that only one person overheard. if someone saw the document, they would say, theres only one person i told that to. i know the sources working for the u.s. government. the same goes for the noforn, not a lot for any foreign national to see. orcon, original agency control, dont give thi...

Special access programs, if i took even one piece of that home, you would expect that i would have federal law enforcement officers at my door, knocking down, seeking to get that back, let alone, hundreds of that. the threat here is that we cannot hold one person about the law or a law for this ongoing threat and potential compromise of national security information. we talked about this with your other panelists, with the kind of information that is obtained in these documents, human intelligen...

Memo last year about more informants getting killed worldwide. we could not, of course say that the uptick is linked to trumps handling of classified documents, but i think we look at the headline in light of what we are learning and it helps put the danger of what is on the line in a bright light. >> there is several scenarios. lets just think about the actual assets. the human intelligence collectors that are out there. you saw the markings on the documents. in the affidavit. agency. esthetici...