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Legal analyst. ken, i believe you have new reporting confirming what was reported by "the new york times." walk us through it. >> thats right, katy. in the last few minutes weve gotten confirmation from a letter of the ak conservativist that was written back in may that sheds a lot of new light on the extent to which classified documents were found even back in january and the furious efforts by the fbi and justice department to try to get other documents back. this letter says that in the janua...

The letter, which was sent to the former president’s lawyers, described the state of alarm in the Justice Department as officials began to realize the nature of the documents kept at Mar-a-Lago.

The letter contains new details about what concerned the National Archives about the White House documents Trump was keeping at his Florida estate.

Confirm the details by "the new york times", but youre reporting that documents marked classified at a level suggesting that theres some of the governments most sensitive secrets were among those found in the 15z boxes turned over in january. what else can you tell us today? >> thats based on a letter from the national archives to president trumps lawyers that was first dus closed by conservative journalist with ties to donald trump. that letter provides a lot of new information that even goes b...

National archives to representatives of former president trump. and it is an extraordinary letter because it describes for the first time now publicly we can see what they say they found when they retrieved the 15 boxes of documents in january from mar-a-lago. 700 pages contained, 100 pages with classified information, and including information under this very, very sensitive category, the special access programs. this is stuff that even if you have the top security clearance, you need additiona...

The letter from the National Archives described the alarm in the Justice Department as officials began to realize the nature of the documents kept at Mar-a-Lago.

Documents. thats because this was a defense he came up with after the search. >> jonathan, i do want to get to the classification of these documents, as we just heard from dave, many of them had some of the highest levels of classification, marked top secret sci and special access programs as theyre known, knowing these documents, again, more than 700 pages, were in boxes at a resort down in florida. how worrying is that to you? >> its very worrying. and the reason being is that the government h...

Sensitive compartmented information, tssci, and special access programs. these are documents that, alisyn and victor, even if you have the highest security clearance, you need additional clearance to be able to get access to some of these very sensitive programs, essentially the most sensitive secrets of the united states government. its interesting that this letter was released because, you know, obviously the trump team is trying to claim that this shows that the fbi was out to get the former ...

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Involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. im hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trumps attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. tal...