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Know, ten documents sets and three were secret, three were confidential, so that is probably not anything that juicy. and then the four sets were top secret. but there wasnt anything marked as you said previously as restricted data, which would be nuclear information, or special access programs, so do you think that much like hillary clintons emails, that, yes, there was some top secret information, but it turned out to be pretty under-whelming, do you think there is a chance what is in these do...

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V violations of the espionage act, obstructing justice and criminal handling of federal documents. after months of back and forth with the former presidents team, in january the national archives and records administration, known as nara, retrieved 15 boxes of materials from mar-a-lago, releasing a statement saying some of the records it received were, quote, torn up by former president trump. according to a source familiar with what the archives discovered in the boxes, some of the materials we...

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Then there is something above top secret, which is compartmented, or special access. its thin, for me, for nerds with regard to -- the highest you can gos top secret. but maybe compartments within top secret when special access programs, they have to get right into. i, during my fbi career, was read in an out of certain special access programs. i had situations where i had to be polygraphed into a program and polygraph out of a program. thats how sensitive they are. they often involve sources an...

Because these are viewed -- these documents that the government believes were taken, you know, were being stored improperly at mar-a-lago are so sensitive, theyre tssci, they are things that are classified as special access programs. we know for a fact that at least some of the documents that were taken from the -- from mar-a-lago were in that category. these are again the most closely-guarded secrets. even if you have top secret clearance, you need additional reason to be able to get access to ...

To walk us through what those different labels mean. and what we can glean from this list. >> theres three classifications in the united states government as you have on your screen. confidential, secret, and top secret. but there are also other controls -- additional controls. thats where the as sihai comes, then sensitive compartment information. it can come from mickelson colleges, it could be from satellite intelligence, but whatever it is, its a special program. and they will refer to these...

Documents that were labelled as top secret sci and that is always the concern for the government for these documents which should never leave the premises of the secure place of the united states government ending up at his home in palm beach. >> and as it pertains to the sci documents, top secret, could those things be declassified by a president and taken like he has? >> well that is what hes saying. he says that i de classified them. it is a little more complicated than that. we have to focus...