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Classified -- that are characterized as presidential papers. but what are not classified. and cavalier manner and where trump's legal team attempted to blow this off, i wonder if that just reflects their own ignorance of the sensitivity of these documents. and the fact that there is no precedent for this like it happens all the time, it does not. and i know in the previous administration, a great care taken about appropriate procedures for this story, the retention and storage of presidential papers. which are under the jurisdiction, as we all know will, of the national archives. so there is a...

As a cia, if i got one of those cover sheets on my desk, i did not at the end of the day pick up and go home. that stuff had to be lowered securely, even inside of cia headquarters in a safe one other thing i forgot to mention that is critically important, the stuff that goes to the president of the united states is not just common stuff. if i collected something at cia from a human source and it ended up on the president's desk, i get pats on the back. i get promotions. it is top 1% that goes to the president, not the less important stuff. >> the stuff he needs to know about, urgent, immediat...

Intelligence collection and this last part here, talent key hole. not a household name but that is a reference to a highly classified u.s. government satellite program. again, we don't know what was exactly in these documents but looking at the cover sheets, we can tell this information was potentially highly sensitive, don. >> steve hall, what can happen if some of these top secret documents were exposed? >> nothing good. all sorts of bad stuff. i think a lot of people are confused, don, maybe with we need to protect sources and methods you hear a lot about. that's true in the case of human i...

Additional levels of sensitivity. this is what was found at donald trump's residence according to the f ei. what do these acronyms mean? we are talking about human control. this refers to spies run overseas, like steve paul used to run as a cia officer, highly sensitive information. we also talked about special intelligence. this is within the realm of the national security agency. think about wiretaps, signals intelligence collections, and his last here, talent keyholder, not a household name, but that is a reference to a highly classified u.s. government satellite program. again, we don't kn...

Former director of national intelligence, james clapper. director, thank you for joining us this evening. we look at this photo, the you see these documents all laid out -- it is astonishing. what story does this photo tell you? >> well, first of all, it is -- viscerally it made me ill to see the documents. those cover sheets are designed to protect sensitive documents. i guess it is more confirmation of the complete disregard for security. protecting these sensitive documents. those were top-secret, if exposed, could potentially ask cause great damage to the national security of the united st...