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Have some concerted characterization over what the documents were. i would not be surprised if there was somebody who was at mar-a-lago whats in the documents or knew about them that was essentially a tip, or an informant, about where they were. so all of that damage assessment and information is important, particularly relating to anything foreign partners, foreign allies that might have shared information with us. and for any sort of human source, or singles and intelligence sources, those are...

As a cia, if i got one of those cover sheets on my desk, i did not at the end of the day pick up and go home. that stuff had to be lowered securely, even inside of cia headquarters in a safe one other thing i forgot to mention that is critically important, the stuff that goes to the president of the united states is not just common stuff. if i collected something at cia from a human source and it ended up on the presidents desk, i get pats on the back. i get promotions. it is top 1% that goes to...

Against osama bin laden during the obama administration. what if that was laying around and in that case, the navy seals would have landed to a whole bunch of al qaeda guys that would have killed them. were talking about national security issues and trying to protect the people actually providing us with this very sensitive stuff. those cover documents, that josh was referring to. its really important when i was sitting at my desk, if i got a cover sheet i didnt pick up and go home. that stuff h...

Long would a review like this take? >> well the primary indication, because we havent seen the documents, is how their marked. and when they bear that sci marking, it means there is a sensitive source involved and if the source is revealed, it could do grave damage to the national security. so, that alone and then of course you have the volume of these documents, the cavalier manner, the reckless manner in which they were being maintained in various locations, in some cases according government ...

But doj took great pains to debunk that in the affidavit. you could see large passenages respond to the argument that these were declassified. in any event, the three statutes that doj is requiring on do not require these documents be classified. i dont think trump has a good defense and the fact he keeps changing his defense week by week to me is consciousness of guilt. >> we know that boxes of documents have been coming out of mar-a-lago for months, even before the search warrant was executed....

Warrant affidavit, they found documents pertaining to the u.s. governments control of human source intelligence. i could tell you having worked in intelligence before overseas, doing joint debriefings with cia of sources, when you gather information from someone and put that in a cable and press send, you pray that that information will be titlely controlled and responsibly handled by everyone who touches that document. here obviously the question is, why would the former president have this kin...

Did go to a foreign country, thats a critical part in the decision by merrick garland whether or not to prosecute trump. its a document -- the defense for trump would be hey, the documents side in the basement for 18 months. i was a sloppy disorganized guy. a jury might sort of buy that. but if he can show that there was real harm, that a key human source for american intelligence, some special method of eavesdropping was exposed to a foreign power, like russia or china, that creates a much stro...

I think as tracey just mentioned, she said it very, well it is important because there are potentially lives at stake. and of, course with things like signals intelligence, communications intelligence, they need to figure out which channels could potentially be compromised. i will say a few things which are is that, to the extent of this couldve been unauthorized access to these documents, they dont need to necessarily name actual sources. all that someone who has that information needs to do is...

About what it tells us and the overall picture that it now creates and most importantly what it means. lets go to our three top reporters, justice correspondent jessica schneider, kristin holmes and kyle cheney. im so glad to see you all here. weve been waiting for this information. although its redacted, there is a lot there. kyle, let me begin with you here, because now we know the tally of classified info just in those january boxes, right? 184 classified documents, 67 confidential, 92 secret...

Reaching out to the trump team to get the documents back. i want to mention, quickly, shawn, david mentioned this, these markings its an alphabet set of acronyms that many of us are not familiar with. ncf, no foreign, it means materials not to be shared with other entities. talk about these markings and why theyre so significant and sensitive. >> sure. well as david mentioned hcs, that really got my attention. that records to human intelligence control systems. and what that tells us is that tha...