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in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government theyve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnns sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very import...

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to be blindsided by this announcement to say, hey, court, they want to see the receipts. theyve contacted out that attorney apparently for advice and they are considering asking the judge to even block the request by the doj to make that unsealed. that move would seem a bit odd, wouldnt it? trump himself was publicly revealing that the search even took place and then he blasted it as politically motivated and there was republican allies in congress and right-wing media who pushed his a...

mar-a-lago home. tonight, the washington post is quoting sources who are saying that investigators are searching for classified nuclear documents and other items. that there was some deep concern among officials about material potentially ending up in the wrong hands. sources dont say if such documents were recovered, but this follows an extraordinary move by the attorney general, merrick garland. he asked a federal court to unseal the warned that permitted the search to take place in ...

Just begs the question as to why. why fight so hard for these documents? but i do want to point out. there are some empty folders in here. empty folders that are marked classified. and i dont know about you, but you probably have manila folders somewhere in your office, some place thats empty. this is not the typical case or office drawer most people are talking about. mar-a-lago, top secret classification. does that mean nothing was in them to begin with, theyre being recycled? or does it mean ...

John, if you believed at a point in time there was something as serious as nuclear documents, would there be any reason that you would have either advised or thought it prudent to delay in executing a search warrant? there is that little bit of a gap when there was, hey, i want you to better secure whatever it is you had. do you think something made him say an urgent notion, they found out something very quickly? >> i think either top secret or nuclear material. either one of those would justify...

Which is not mar-a-lago. >> as i say, that very prospect, but there still that disconnect with mar-a-lago not being the national archives. ive been to mar-a-lago, eternal kind of containment units they have, but the presidential records act tells you they refer to where they know where its going to be. i have to ask you, the fact that there is this timeline that youve laid out there, john, if you believed at a point in time, that their words something as serious as nuclear documents. would there...

That? >> all right. karen, sam stein, always a pleasure. coming up, top secret classification has a safe ring to it, but a shocking report from the "washington post" shows hundreds of thousands of people have this level of clearance to our countrys biggest secrets? ill get the lowdown from a former cia officer next. plus, alvin greene just gave his first speech, and the beckster is throwing a dinner party and you could be the guest of honor. ill explain it all coming up in the playbook. stay wit...