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To what the potential purpose or motivations might have been. but one of the, you know, unanswered questions here. >> right. and we now know that among the documents recovered from mar-a-lago, one set of documents, mark, to top secret sci, four set of top secret documents and three sets each marked secret or confidential. help us out, director clapper, could you explain this sci classification for our viewers as well as these other categories, why is this so important? >> well, there are three l...

Of course, that spasm of violence on that day, which obviously is the subject of the january 6th investigation. and all of that is sort of not really on the front page right now because were focusing so much on what occurred at mar-a-lago a few days ago. lets clear something up, if it were any other person not named trump who had eleven sets of classified documents at their home, including items marked top secret sci, how would you be treated by fbi? i mean, its almost because trump goes after p...

Taken to declassify material like it. this is information collected by the united states intelligence community. some of the documents that have been retrieved reportedly include top-secret sci, thats compartment information, probably including signals intelligence collected by the national security agency, possibly human source-related information. and we dont live in an authoritarian regime where the ruler by fiat or, you know, impulse can do whatever he or she wants. we live -- at least for t...

May that there was sensitive material in that room, one might think they should have acted sooner. >> this top secret sci, do you know, maybe you dont, its just something i considered on the walk-up here, if a former president retains the clearance to view information at that level? of course when he is the executive, he has that clearance. but after he leaves the office, does he retain it? >> so he likely -- yes, he retains his clearance level. but in order to have access to classified informat...

Some marked at top secret sci, so thats sensitive compartmented information, so that is really among the highest levels of classification in that system for national security, and we also know that that is one set of the documents, there are also three sets of confidential documents, three sets of secret documents and four sets of top secret documents. those are the three different levels of classification that the u.s. government uses. the "wall street journal" report also says in total there a...

And what the attorney general did was put donald trump in a bind. if he objects, then he looks like hes hiding, makes it look bad for him. if he agrees, you get this information out into the public, and even though we wont have the mother load, the affidavit supporting the search warrant, the attachments, we will have some detail and well have an inventory that will see if it confirms the reporting on these eleven steps of classified documents, so, you know, the more the details come out, the wo...

Violation. how far -- how difficult is it to prove that the former president is guilty of these statutes? >> well, three points, victor. technically, each of these three crimes as to which probable cause has been found by a court, has a set of elements. and technically, yes, its as simple as that. but its never really as simple as that when youre going against a former president. theyre going to have to show serious offenses. and thats why the volume of what we have here, these approximately 20 ...

Merrick garland to come out and do this type of situation so that he could get the prebuttal in. hes sort of, you know, priming the american public for his defenses here. >> theres been a flood of reporting on what was seized from the former presidents home. we have a reporting from the "wall street journal," the eleven sets of classified documents, incoming some at the very top. one set of this top secret sci documents, four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and thre...

Relations, description of plans or intelligence operations, or compromise of technologies. top secret information, dana, thats the unauthorized disclosure of what could r reasonably be expected to cause, quote, exceptionally grave damage to national security. you know, i take a different view of this. having been involved in these kinds of things, and knowing whats in them. when youre talking about top secret sci, the sensitive compartmented information, which by the way, is not a separate categ...

>> yeah, the people who are trying to defend trump are basically desperate. they have been making all sorts of insane arguments, arguing that the fbi planted documents, arguing that somehow, you know, like carmac the magnificent he held them to his forehead and declassified them like that. none of this makes any sense at all. he had these documents. he had them for a long time. in order to have taken them from the white house, he probably brought them up to the residence. he had no business brin...