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The process by which they looked at this material. but i would guess, a big guess, that somebody had to be deputize and multiple people had to be authorized and were given the need to know authorization and read into the special access programs so that they could review the documents, as part of an ongoing and increasingly more alarming criminal investigation. >> carol leonnig, washington post national investigative reporter, bombshell reporting that will have repercussions i am sure. we will he...

Mar-a-lago that the former president lied about having possession of and loathed to give up? >> well, its hard to be surprised about anything we learned that donald trump might have done. still, this is quite shocking. now, i dont know about the documents that were found, but based on carols description, it sounds as though these are documents that are part of special access programs, s.a.p.s. these are the documents most highly sensitive and highly restricted within the u.s. government. and som...

They should be able to find someone who can do this and the request he is which of these saps do they need to be read into to even look at these classified documents which inherently are not subject to executive privilege or attorney/client privilege. we can just put that aside, but the special master in theory would look at all of them and would need to be read into some of these very fightly held compartments. >> david, in the doj filing it made last week one of the things things it said in it...

The washington post tonight a document that says a foreign governments -- including its nuclear capabilities was found by fbi agents who search former president donald trumps mar-a-lago residents and private club last month. according to people familiar with the matter, underscoring concerns among u.s. intelligence officials about classified material stashed in the florida property. some of the seas documents detail top secret u.s. operations so closely guarded that many senior national security...

Level where its a very limited number of eyes that are permitted to see that information and how those standards were clearly violated here? >> yeah. the reporting last night from "the washington post" talks about two different things which may or may not be coterminous. you got the report first on a foreign countrys defense systems, including nuclear capabilities, presumably, that means active capabilities, but it could be other developments or a developing nuclear program. we dont know. then t...

Still, its quite shocking. i dont know about the documents, but based on karens the script in, it does sound as though these are documents that are part of special access programs. these are documents that are the most highly sensitive and highly restrictive for the new u.s. government. some of these programs still specifically with nuclear capabilities, whether its our own, the nuclear capabilities of our allies or our adversaries, these documents usually are kept in safe inside of gifts. its n...

Classification called formally restricted data. thats a designation that concerns nuclear weapons. and now, tonight, the reporters at "the washington post" are at it again. headline, material on foreign nations nuclear capabilities seized at trumps mar-a-lago. here is the leak. quote, a document describing a foreign governments military defenses including its nuclear capabilities was found by fbi agents who searched former president donald trumps mar-a-lago residence and private club last month,...

Subpoenaed productive search, and his documentary described as one of the things they found in the search. >> it is fascinating, devlin barrett, appreciate the reporting that you and your colleague carol leonnig did at the washington post on this. jennifer, just in terms of what we have just heard, what stands out to you? >> well i mean again, these are very, very serious documents, theyre not the sort of thing that should be anywhere outside of the proper places inside the scif. so it seems to ...

Obviously, any information about the nuclear secrets of any country, there are a lot of people who would be interested to know those nuclear secrets. >> sure, i think its such a sensitive area that there is categories in sub categories of that kind of information. some of it is essentially department of defense information, that falls under the classified system and perrella. when you talk about special access programs, nuclear capabilities of foreign military agencies, those are things that the...

Been referred to earlier. as devlin was saying, this is not just top secret, but s.a.p. programs, special access programs, or programs that you are read into individually. just because you hold a top secret clearance doesnt mean youre -- all these programs are on a need to know basis. so youre read into these individual programs and only certain people are qualified based on their need to know. so it is a very, very, very small subset of people who are even authorized to handle, deal with this t...