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Against osama bin laden during the obama administration. what if that was laying around and in that case, the navy seals would have landed to a whole bunch of al qaeda guys that would have killed them. we're talking about national security issues and trying to protect the people actually providing us with this very sensitive stuff. those cover documents, that josh was referring to. it's really important when i was sitting at my desk, if i got a cover sheet i didn't pick up and go home. that stuff had to be stored securely inside of cia head quarters in a safe. this is really -- by the way, one...

Unprecedented whether it's a republican or a democratic former president we have never seen one holding on to this type of sensitive information. >> can we dig in a little more, josh? can you talk about what kind of information these documents labeled like these -- that you see there, what would it contain? >> this here is a cover sheet. this is what my former doj colleague talked about in the last segment. this sits on top of classified information and tells the person holding the document what is is behind it and how sensitive that information is. i want to specifically focused on these init...

You're quite right with that, nick. brandon, good to have you back because you specialize in mishandling of classified documents. the trump team is expressing outrageove over the photo inclu the doj filing. what do you think of that? what is your reaction? >> this is what happens when you collect evidence in particular if you're collecting classified evidence. this isn't an indication of what it looked like. this is an indication trying to demonstrate this is the material seized from this particular location and one of the things that jumps out is these cover sheets. when you have classified d...

The filing includes this photo, really something to behold here, a photo of secret and top secret documents including highly classified compartmented information spread out on the floor by the fbi. joining us now is cnn security correspondent josh campbell to talk about this. that photo, tell us what you see. >> this raises the picture worth a thousand words applies here. we heard the information from court records about what type of material this is but seeing it there laid out, that's pretty striking. as we look at this photo, you see the red there, the yellow documents, those are what are c...

Cleacorrect me if i'm wrong, barbara, my understanding is a special master would necessarily be reviewing the highest of classified documents. possibly the type that would veto human intelligence gathering on the ground. is that accurate? when they review everything? >> i think they would review everything. it is possible that they could say, i looked -- these things once or property have a cover sheet on them that say, exactly what level of classification it is. it is all stable together in a document set. it could be that they simply review the classified documents there and say, this is top...