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Found of the goods. and before i was acting solicitor general i was national security adviser at the justice department. and i can tell you this is incredibly serious stuff that they found. and yesterday when we were on the program and we learned about the nuclear revelations that the fbi was looking for nuclear information and signals intelligence i said we have to be cautious. that is just what they are looking for. we don't know what they will find. but now we know today lawrence it's not just the warrant. if the documents that the fbi seized. and the documents on that list include sci sens...

Beyond top secret, and sensitive compartment information. so there is no telling what he has in his possession or what his intent really was. >> you touched on this, but i want to go a little bit deeper, your reaction to the revelation of this warned that the espionage act was one of the legal basis used for the search. >> i know that espionage is hard to prove. usually without trying to prove conspiracy to commit espionage. so what's clear from public record is the documents he obtained which are themselves damaging to our national defence, and could aid foreign adversaries, but did he have t...

To walk us through what those different labels mean. and what we can glean from this list. >> there's three classifications in the united states government as you have on your screen. confidential, secret, and top secret. but there are also other controls -- additional controls. that's where the as sihai comes, then sensitive compartment information. it can come from mickelson colleges, it could be from satellite intelligence, but whatever it is, it's a special program. and they will refer to these are special access programs. or sacks. the point is we are protecting more than anything is the ...

The potential conflict between our legal and political realities. here is my thought, let's all catch our breath. step back. let the dust settle and hopefully we can learn what was in the documents trump kept and why did he keep them? were some nuclear in nature? were any properly declassified? and were all less adverse means exhausted by the justice department before the search warrant was obtained? those are my questions. i want to know what you think about something related. go to smerconish.com. answer this week's poll question. did the search of mar-a-lago boost trump's odds of being the ...

Warrant. if it's nuclear-related, jazz fied intelligence material, that's extraordinarily serious and i would understand exactly why the fbi and the department of justice would want that stuff back. >> here's the question. is there any chance, chuck, that that kind of paperwork, those kinds of documents, would not be obviously apparent as being classified? i mean if they're out of the white house, you know that they're classified. >> yes, they should be obvious to anyone who has handled classified information. i have. when i was in the department of justice and the fbi. and it's very clear, al...