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dispossession that intelligence officials needed to do a damage assessment. hard to believe a trump ally actually released this letter. we'll bring in a, cnn senior legal analyst. but carrie cordero. was a former counsel to the u.s. assisted ag for national security. good evening to both of, you so, early. we now know that trump had 700 pages of classified documents in his home. the information confirmed this letter released by his own team. that is a lot of information. how damaging is it looking for trump? >> there are two parts of it. there is what donald trump and his people had ...

Dozens of felony counts. in addition to more obstruction charges, the special counsel was not charging former president with the willful retention of a national defense document. according to this indictment, it is the one he mentioned during a taped discussion two years ago it with biographers working for former white house chief of staff mark meadows. none of whom, all of the people in the, room again according to the indictment, none of them possessed a security clearance. here is that recording. >> these are bad sick people. >> that was your crew, you know, against you. >> it started right...

You've got defendant trump saying in his own words i know what the law is and i'm breaking it and for a jury -- what is a jury going to be thinking about? why do we care about this? why do i care if the president had these classified documents? does it really matter? this tape tells you it absolutely matters. this implicates the national defense. you've got the ex-president talking about the head of the joint chiefs of staff and a classified highly secret defense document and he knows he's not supposed to talk about it and he puts the law and takes it in his own hands and disregards it. that's...

The president is not getting this point. okay, maybe you declassified it. sure you did, but it's still a defense document, and that, under one of the statutes that they are investigating, is a crime. >> which is why, as we build methodically through these different pieces of what we do know from these great reporters, and we know there's a lot we don't know. this is why the significance of what donald trump told kaitlan collins at the cnn town hall could come back to bite him a bit. let's listen. >> no, no, i don't have anything. i have no classified documents. and by the way, they become auto...