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Nicholas wu is a congressional reporter at politico. welcome reporter at politico. to the programme. if donald trump welcome to the programme. if donald trump declassified everything, why are his lawyers arguing in court this afternoon that the special master should have top secret sci security clearance? the master should have top secret sci security clearance?— master should have top secret sci security clearance? the concern here is that although _ security clearance? the concern here is th...

About what we were seeing donald trump, true thing out on his social media platform thats failing. he was basically just freaking out all day, and the reason is this evidence. this evidence shows, he is guilty as sin. he did this. >> evan -- >> he did these documents, he had the lawyers lie about it. its incredible. >> evan, i understand you wanna point something out quickly. >> yeah, don, look, the photograph that we keep showing is, these are documents that are recovered from, according to thi...

I assume that the president staff had scooped up maybe some relatively modest documents in terms of classification. but let me give you an interpretation of this, especially if you look at the photographs at the end of the document. a couple of things to say, and i will make this very simple. these are at the highest level of american national security classification, top secret sci, which is the classification you seen the photographed, typically re-first intercepted communications. it is hard ...

Trumps desk. why would he have them in there? >> you tell me. look, all of this is alarming and like we were talking about, there is a photograph thats list add ds one of the a damts to the document that is itself alarming because there you see kind of for the first time the kinds of markings that were on the documents like top secret, top secret sci, secret compartmented information, these are all incredibly secure documents and we know that. in the desk there is no argument to be made that som...

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...

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...

Author of "midnight in washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could." congressman, thank you for joining us. or mr. chairman, i should say. youre also chairman of the house intelligence committee. you asked for a damage assessment and a classified briefing from the intelligence community last week regarding the raid on mar-a-lago, the search warrant on mar-a-lago. have you heard back from the intelligence community? and do you have any concerns about the potential for this preced...

Documents of varying levels of classification, including some deemed so sensitive, theyre only meant to be viewed in a secure location. we know the fbi reviewed security camera footage from the former presidents estate and what they saw on that video may have raised concerns about who had access to this material that shouldnt have. >> and one more quick question before you go. where does the investigation go from here? >> there are multiple directions for this investigation, linsey. i think two ...

Likely to become important facts if criminal charges are materializing here and investigators try to narrow down who exactly mishandled these documents. alex? >> katelyn polantz, thank you so much for that. im joined by a legal analyst and former los angeles county prosecutor lonnie kooms. what do you make from what we just heard from katelyn there about this letter from a trump lawyer claiming in june that all the classified documents had been returned to doj. we now know that was not the cas...

Chair of the house intel committee, is now asking the nations top intelligence officer oavril haines for a damage assessment on all the documents seized. he wants to know the fallouts from the classified documents being kept essentially at a private residence. he says, quote, the former presidents conduct potentially put our national security at great risk. >> now the call for more information comes as sources tell cnn that one of trumps lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classif...