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Contraband fruits of crime or other items illegally possessed in violation of 18 u.s. code section 793 2071 or 1519. that string of numbers i just read is actually a set of federal statutes. 793 for instance is part of what is known as the ex pianist act. it deals with the quote gathering transmitting or losing defense information. this specific session of the espionage act that federal authorities cited the search warrant concerns collecting transferring or losing information relating to national defence. quote, with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury...

Up and down. you c can't use the espionage statute was used against ellsbergspio, everybody else. now, the same people who oppose the espionage statute are jumping up and down saying, wow, we have the espionage statute. we can now get trump. we might not have been able to get him previously, but we're going to use this statute which we hate and oppose for years tow try toe get trump.in and we're going tost try to disqualify him because we're going to amendry the constitutin and say the criteria for president running for office goes beyond the four criteria in the constitution. and congress can...

Intelligence. and i want to start with you, frank figliuzzi. the espionage act. you are our counter intelligence guy. what is your take? >> i was looking for that as soon as i laid eyes on the warrant. and sure enough, there it was. it was really startling to see that with regard to a former president of the united states. you explained it well up top, stephanie. this is not 790, for which actually involves the transmission to an adversary, of defense, national information. but it's very close. it's 793. it's one of the most serious crimes the united states can charge someone with. it will inv...

Act and not be spying in the traditional sense, but it does cover the misuse of classified -- basically what's called closely-held information in that statute. it was actually enacted before the classification system. and i expect that that statute to be listed on the search warrant. >> evan, you noted the likelihood that some of these documents may contain information that is sensitive in a national security perspective. will we ever find out exactly what's in these documents that were seized? >> look, you can look at previous cases where people were charged with this statute which is u.s. co...

Secure facilities in mar-a-largo. so there's no way that president trump violated the espionage act by declassifying these records and taking them with him. he was the president of the united states when he declassified them and they're safe in morgue, this is a political hit job by attorney general merrick garland and the biden justice department. >> sean: i'll come back to that in a second. chris, going to you. how serious are the statutes that were cited in this warrant? >> sean, these are heavyweight statutes. the first, 793 is basically the espionage statute. it talks about things that he...