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Trump. first of all, the government made every effort, back and forth, first with narrow which is the national archives, then with the justice department in the fbi, to recoveries documents. to, his attorneys at some point misrepresented that there was still more confidential information. in fact, when they walked out of the box, with those boxes, i think that they found lots of documents that confidential information. and the third is that he is kind of slip his own neck by making this silly ar...

Searched because they were occupied by third parties. i think another outstanding question here is whether the government actually got everything back given this long series of efforts of obstruction on behalf of the former president. >> phil, help us understand the sensitivity of these top-secret documents that were intermixed with the newspaper articles and notes. we discussed hcs, human intelligence control systems that refers to actual foreign spies, but also documents noted no form, which m...

And just to be honest, a lot of it was redacted, pages and pages and pages were redacted of this document. but getting the specific classification markings about human intelligence, about fisa intelligence, signals intelligence. im not an expert in this. i only know what the government tells us about this information. i dont have a classification privilege of my own. but that takes it pretty far. >> these are a number of documents that theyre talking about, the way it was stored, the sort of cha...

Intelligence information derived from clandestine human sources. im ready from the affidavit -- the hcs control system protects human intelligence-derived information, capabilities, techniques, processes, and procedures. i mean, you dont have to watch "homeland" to know how incredibly important this is and how important it is to protect these sources overseas, their safety especially, considering the position theyre putting themselves in. >> in english, it means its a report from a cia officer a...

Subjects are. it doesnt tell you whether or not anyone will be charged with a federal crime. it tells you that you have a serious ongoing investigation and the government was absolutely appropriate to redact the most sensitive information in the affidavit. >> clint, many of our guests in this panel have already underscored how important it is to keep these documents secure, because they contain some of the highest-level secrets of our government. but how serious to you is it that this informatio...

About seven — seen so far, theres this section of about seven pages, completely blacked — about seven pages, completely blacked out. these are human intelligence sources. this is what were _ intelligence sources. this is what were told. — intelligence sources. this is what were told, in other words, theyre spies— were told, in other words, theyre spies and — were told, in other words, theyre spies and active in the field. why he needs— spies and active in the field. why he needs them...

Governor of georgia standing up and saying the election was not stolen, hes lying, he cannot accept defeat and saying to look to the future, to not relitigate 2020 and, again, this sense of fatigue. i think there are moderate republicans who are tired of all this and then the details from today, human intelligence, the crown jewel for the cia is having a confidential human source and donald trump, that information was sitting in donald trumps basement for at least a year. >> is anybody else pote...

Of information that was highly classified, but for anyone that has held the security clearance, that has been inside a secure facility, when youre talking about special access programs, its a different level of protection. there are different layers of protection. there are restrictions, and you can see them. in fact, oftentimes, there are secure facilities within a secure facility to see these, and so it just really does raise the prospects of some real harm to national security with the fact t...

The cia you need to think about ex-filltrating this human source before he gets killed. >> because you think about, frank, that compound -- i want to get into that letter i mentioned. but if you think about the compound, lets bring up the images of mar-a-lago that we were just showing, guys, as i talk to frank here. its not a secure location. i mean, its stated in this affidavit, right? and when you have human intelligence sources that are so incredibly vulnerable -- and also, by the way, helpfu...

The unlawful concealment or removal of government records. i suspected, the document, the ifu dated —— affidavit was heavily redacted, but we learned some of the reasons why the department wanted to search mar—a—lago. one reason was because documents provided earlier by donald trump at mar—a—lago included over 180 instances of classified information mixed in with a hodgepodge of magazine clippings and article, that included human intelligence gathering and even court ordered surveill...