protected and what kind of potential damage they could have done if they were released as an important piece. the thing i worry about is brief to congress, you have members of the intel committee that have been notorious leakers including adam schiff and i m concerned that this is going to politicized even more this case when it should be above politics and just, you know, ultimately be about the facts and circumstances. arthel: who bears the burden of proof at this juncture and why? matt: well, there s no criminal case. it s integrity issue, arthel. the fbi needs to demonstrate and they haven t yesterday that they are playing it by the rules and they are not putting their thumb on the scale of justice. arthel: why do you say that because from what i understand in the process thus far and, please correct me if i m wrong, the ag says you have paperwork that we want to have back because it belongs to the united
residence, mar-a-lago. 184 recovered documents had some sort of classification, including 25 that were marked as top secret. joining us now is cnn s jeremy erbst. w what does a damage assessment entail? this means the intelligence committee is going to find out what potential damage to u.s. security occurred by the nature of having these documents held at mar-a-lago. as you said, some of this was very heavily classified intelligence, including intelligence involving human sources, signals intelligence, foreign intelligence, and that s some of the most closely guarded secrets in the intelligence community. so what this assessment effectively is going to do is try to determine whether they sources and methods have been compromised as a result of these documents not being properly held. now, the two chairs who have requested this assessment that led to the avril haines letter, what they said in a joint statement is that the affidavit
prosecutor. if i could begin with you, director clapper, as you know in this redacted affidavit we learned these classified materials recovered included material beyond really the level of top secret, very highly classified categories within that level of classification, including clandestine human sources, overseas intelligence gathering. given your decades in intelligence as well as serving as dni, tell us what potential damage could be caused by keeping these in an unsecure environment. well, first caveat statement i want to make when we re discussing this is we still do not know the content of any of these documents. what we do know, though, are the ascriptions that characterize them from a classification standpoint. you gave a very good explanation at the top, jim, about what
material beyond really the level of top secret, very highly classified categories within that level of classification, including clandestine human sources, overseas intelligence gathering. given your decades in intelligence as well as serving as dni, tell us what potential damage could be caused by keeping these in an unsecure environment. well, first caveat statement i want to make when we re discussing this is we still do not know the content of any of these documents. what we do know, though, are the ascriptions that characterize them from a classification standpoint. you gave a very good explanation at the top, jim, about what 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
the eu is urging russia to immediately withdraw its forces. the un s chief called for the same. i remain gravely concerned about the unfolding situation in and around europe s largest nuclear power plant in zaporizhzhia. common sense must prevail to avoid any actions that might endanger the physical integrity, safety or security of the nuclear plant. the area needs to be demilitarized. we must tell it as it is any potential damage to zaporizhzhia is suicide. while the kremlin hasn t agreed to withdraw any forces stationed at the plant, it has agreed to let the un s nuclear agency inspect it. in a statement on friday it confirmed its readiness to provide agency inspectors with all necessary assistance. but ukraine says russia must first withdraw its troops. here s a spokesman from ukraine s defence ministry.