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This is all about. but, in the last hour, ben rhodes made the point that information about nuclear arsenals, whether it is in the united states or for nuclear arsenals is really valuable. where there are nonstate and state actors trying to get their hands on nuclear weapons, at. that raises the question of donald trump, a man that has always tried to profit off anything he has ever done. was there some motivation here where he mightve tried to cash in on these documents? i ask you, with your kno...

The categories of documents, i want to know what was behind some of those documents. what is in them? what mr. trump was planning to do are already did with the information that he had. >> so, we had a conversation in the last hour about one of the most intriguing entries in the inventory. then rhodes clarified for us. it is number 2-a. this is a little bit more about what is in it. it says various classified tfs ci documents. as ben went on to describe has to do with documents that are supersec...

The -- whenever you edit something its like the ghost biline. you make everything you touch so much better. olivia troy -- >> its not quite that, but thank you. >> 20 boxes of items, binders of photos, a handwritten note, stuff about emmanuel macron, got knows what donald trump wanted to know about macron. got me in my -- the curiositys killing me. all of those things are all in donald trumps possession. the question has been throughout this has been thats been for donald trump why did you take ...

>> okay. really, it is just what you said. it was combined with the warrant, they could have everything. so, i think it became pretty clear by yesterday, they needed to just get those documents back. now, it is a different time and law enforcement folks will be poring through quite a treasure trove of arterials that could bear on other kinds. second is espionage. over the course of the week, leaks were coming out. that is what i was surmising and others might as well. could the former president ...

Forgotten about, this was just a few days ago when donald trump started this whole thing by saying they broke into my safe i dont see any mention of the safe anywhere in these documents. what do we make of that? >> well, i think what he said was they broke into the safe, and that i think has been set at one point there was nothing in the safe, maybe. so, it could be one of the bundles of documents that is referenced that might have been taken from the safe. but, it is a little bit unclear. this ...

From mar-a-lago. i mean, remember, this follows on the heels of a couple of dozen or so boxes that were removed previously. the former president was in possession of a wide range of documents that he should not have been in possession of, just under the presidential records act. but, now, we see in this warrant and the receipt, that there were many documents that were of highly sensitive nature. i know i am someone that i held secret clearance in my previous life and is a member of congress. tha...

Conceal or destroy this stuff. finally, the level of security. some of the documents here, especially that word says binoculars, compartment. you see the department of justice, your head goes 360. what is is even doing here? that has to be in a special room that i cannot even enter. so, no way you can do that casually. somebody probably had to help him print it out and take it away. that person is very nervous today. >> i stick with you to ask you two questions. you talked about leaks and report...

Are calculating that the fbi would not have searched the former presidents home in private club if they did not have something of really serious and substantial national security importance. they are not searching for it throwaway documents. they are searching for important stuff. there was a really significant step for the department of justice and the fbi to take, clearly. you know, i obviously cannot speak for senator mcconnell and i never would. but, i assumed that one of the reasons they ha...

A special place to look at them, right, is that what youre saying? >> well, i think for any of these documents. certainly anything that is top secret you need to be in a certain facility to be able to review those documents. >> right, but -- >> sci is just a different level that is more restricted. >> okay. thats -- i got that right then. phil rucker, i want to come to you. you know, the thing that we all woke up to this morning was two pieces of reporting. one before the "wall street journal" g...

Of boxes that said -- theres no information whatsoever. and then all the sudden you hit these repeated references to either con any dental document or documents, secret document or documents, and top-secret document or documents. that gets you all the way to the 28th entry down here which is, again, miscellaneous, it says tope secret documents, they had to cut the e off there. olivia, you came across documents, we talked about in the last block. but you came across documents at all this level of...