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Documents comprising more than 700 pages, some with the highest level of classification, were retrieved back in january and the national archives told the trump legal team it wanted intelligence agencies to do a damage assessment. cnns katelyn polantz live in washington. all this new information came to light just yesterday. what are we learning? >> john, what were learning comes from a newly released letter that the national archives sent to donald trumps lawyers back in may. so may 10th the ar...

Would reveal the existence of this letter, which as we know tells us a lot about the volume and the nature of those documents. to your question, what is behind that request for an investigation, request to look into the potential damage that could be caused is a reference in the letter to special access programs. we havent talked a lot about this. everyone has known there is top secret csi information or sensitive compartment information in the documents, but one of the things weve been waiting ...

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Ex-US president held on to material relating to some of the country's most sensitive secrets and may have obstructed an investigation into the matter, newly leaked letter indicates

Dispossession that intelligence officials needed to do a damage assessment. hard to believe a trump ally actually released this letter. well bring in a, cnn senior legal analyst. but carrie cordero. was a former counsel to the u.s. assisted ag for national security. good evening to both of, you so, early. we now know that trump had 700 pages of classified documents in his home. the information confirmed this letter released by his own team. that is a lot of information. how damaging is it lookin...

Ts/csi, special access programs that only a handful of the highest cleared people would be read in on. >> i guess my follow-up to that, ken, is why are they waiting or what are they waiting for in order to launch the formal damage assessment? i want to read what the dni says about the formal damage assessments, saying, damage assessments shall be conducted when there is an actual or suspected unauthorized disclosure or compromise of classified national intelligence that may cause damage to u.s. ...

Private room, im going to assume that youve seen top secret documents, so from looking at these documents could a trained observer, or even a skilled observer, figure out methods and sources of intelligence gathering. >> yes. >> that would present some danger to operatives currently in the field? >> yes, without a doubt. because very often, intelligence reports -- the lowest level of classification is confidential which is barely classified. then theres secret. then theres top secret. then there...

The archives reached out to lawyers for the former president less than four months after he left office last year seeking help in recovering missing material.

Said that when the archives were trying to get documents back, that it was the former president, donald trump, who personally reviewed the boxes in deciding what to return. that means he also decided what not to return. and we know from the archive, not just from "the new york times," that in those 15 boxes were substantial number of classified documents at the highest level. that is tssci, which is, you know, compartmented program, special access programs. they constituted just within the 15 bo...

At nbc news but theres no reason to dispute it, the letter says that the documents they found in january included top secret, sensitive department information, special access programs. so the most sensitive documents in the u.s. government. were talking about january. so it wasnt as barbara pointed out, until august that the justice department went to the extra step of getting the search warrant and doing the search. so there was a long time that they knew some very sensitive documents had been ...