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Intelligence and oversight committees that her office is conducting an assessment of how classified documents were handled by former president trump. this of course comes after the friday release of the redacted affidavit used to obtain a search warrant of the former presidents home. it ascribed in january, 15 boxes of documents were turned over by trumps team. according to the justice of our highly classified records were found mixed in with unrelated notes, magazines and newspapers. some of th...

Protected by law, who reported on the issue of potential criminal activity by the president. there is no doubt that if any of these individuals names got out, especially if they were anywhere close to the president, employ near him, that they would have been retaliation. that is why the names remain under seal. >> what about the classifications that we learned about on the documents themselves? we learnewhen you saw the eighs designation and the mention of the clandestine human sources, what doe...

Who provide information, that is the basic crux of human intelligence, we rely on it every day, our foreign policy decision makers rely on that information for making choices of national security. the fact of it it had this kind of market on these documents the fact that it indicated -- that is very sensitive information, that should be nowhere near the beach resort in mar-a-lago. >> i got to also ask you, we talk about mar-a-lago as if that is the end of this, the report suggests that there are...

Is at west palm beach, in florida, and gave us more details on the investigation. thejustice department has now pulled back the curtain ever so slightly into the criminal investigation over handling classified documents and presidential records here at mar—a—lago. in its 32 affidavit, that was heavily redacted, the justice department said one of the reasons why they thought there were still classified documents being kept in an unsecured location here in mar—a—lago was because documents ...

Has led people to believe that this could actually be the think that donald trump is prosecuted for. >> yeah, i think there are some things that are disclosed in this affidavit, that makes me agree with you that its more likely today than it was before, that there would be a prosecution. one of the things we now know is that as far back as may of 2021, the national archives was involved in a dialogue with donald trump to get these documents back. so, hes been on notice for all that time. he had ...

These caveats mean. a point i would add is they are not mutually exclusive. so i would suspect that some of these documents at least, which is typical, particularly with hcs, human intelligence control system, could also be orcon and noforn which emphasizes the sensitivity and potential profound damage that could accrue if these are not protected, which they werent, and if they are exposed. of course in the case of human control system, that is designed to protect assets that we have recruited o...

Would that information about human intelligence, what those fisa documents? who has seen them? where they might have been? oh my to photocopy them? we just dont know. it seems dumb, but this might be the most serious thing yet. >> this is very serious. and i say not just as a watergate prosecutor, there was a former general counsel of the army, familiar very much with human intelligence, signal intelligence. and national security. and this is stuff that was, some of it, was in the hallway going ...

Classified at these levels typically contain ndi. im not a national security expert, better than i was a few hours ago. some of those terms used by the doj throughout the affidavit jumped out at me. that last, one ndi, stands for national defense information. and its exactly what it sounds like. its classified information related to national defence. or as its described in the united states legal code, information relating to, quote, essential defence, industrial, and military emergency and she ...

About on the documents themselves? when you saw the eight cs 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 -- they are providing information on foreign governments, foreign intelligence services, this is the basic evidence evidence of -- human...

Work for our government, both assets, foreign assets, who work overseas. and also, our people, who if they were caught in their foreign countries, could be executed. and what this affidavit showed us in particular, we knew about, okay, as c i information, sensitive compartmented information was received. thats bad. but then, to read about these dissemination controls on the documents, such as human, hcs, human intelligence as barbara talked about, thats talking about my clients who could be pote...