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>> its a good question. it should be done immediately. it should have started quite a while ago. but there could be a lot of legal reasons here as well, but i can tell you whats already happened as part of the damage assessment because ive had to do things, certainly not like this involving a former president but my guess is when we see classifications like "h" for human sources and top secret and special access programs and orcon there have been likely sobering discussions where the fbi has had...

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...

Special access programs, or tc i, what goes through your head when you read that in the newspaper? >> what goes through my head is that there are two very sensitive subjects that could be revealed in the documents. one is a source of information. a human source, lets say, that there was someone close to kim jong-un who was a source of information. if you look at documents, you could tell, that this application only come from someone in this room, and that is, obviously, a big problem. there is a...

14 of them had classified materials in them, and we know theres more. take me inside what that looks like. >> i think "alarm" is the right word, and actually, part of the reason we know that, in fact, there was an alarm is because, based on this search warrant, we know that it was approximately may 16th when the fbi began reviewing these 184 classified documents from the archives, and just two weeks later, the department of justice was at mar-a-lago, on june 3rd, the reporting is that the chief ...

A magistrate judge in Florida will now decide whether to unseal portions of the secret affidavit.

Theyre letting the justice department run the investigation. if theres other evidence to the contrary, you know, i would second-guess that -- i wouldnt second-guess that. one other thing i want to know about these s.a.p.s, these special access programs, for americans who are trying to understand the bureaucratic speak in this, this is what we call code word programs. some of them, i wasnt even allowed to say the code word to other people. they were unacknowledged programs. this is the highest le...

A letter for the national archives from trumps legal team was published online by trump ally, confirming hundreds of pages marked classified and special access retired in january. the nature of the classified information was raising concerns among federal investigators about the potential damage to national security. cnns erin press has more now, reporting from washington. more than 100 documents mark classified, more than 700 pages in total. that is how much sensitive information the national a...

Amid new revelations about the highly sensitive character of the documents Trump illegally removed from the White House, the Justice Department appears to be expanding its investigation into the ex-president’s violations of national security procedures.

Least some of that but what do you think of what he said? >> yeah, well, look, it certainly is the case that those of us who had a security clearance for a long time occasionally you have a situation where someone inadvertently takes a classified document home and there is a process for dealing with that. the idea you throw multiple documents, classified documents into a box, particularly at this volume and take those out of the white house and then be asked for those documents to be returned an...

Here is what they found, this is the different levels of classification. they found documents that were classified at this highest level, sci, sensitive compartmented information, sap, special access programs. that is the tippee top of the top secret pyramid. >> thats a legal term tippee top. >> and in the letter archives says thats two things we have to do now, first, conduct an assessment, meaning fbi has to go through these documents, figure out is there any source who is exposed, is anyone n...