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Elsewhere, well totally declassified because -- took it up with him to the residents. i think the fact that the document, according to our reporting, was classified at a secret level was significant. that is a kind of document that the justice department technically charges an espionage cases. you don't want something that's too sensitive, something that is top secret, because it's difficult to get the intelligence community to sign off declassifying that -- as something at the confidential level, on the other end of the spectrum, is probably too low of a threshold for it to be -- a jury. -- a...

Could -- or how he had declassified everything that ended up at mar-a-lago and elsewhere was totally declassified because, you know, he thought about declassifying it or because he took it up with him to the residence. the document was classified at the secret level, also significant. that is the kind of document that the justice department typically charges in espionage cases. you don't want someone that is too sensitive, something that's top secret, because it's difficult to get intelligence community to sign off declassifying that for use at trial. something at the confidential level, on th...

Because that was also where the recently departed trump lawyer suggested they didn't want to do a search of bedminster because they were worried about what they might find. but this conversation in particular is significant because from what we understand, trump was talking about retaining a secret level document. secret level documents are the kinds of things that the justice department prefers to charge in espionage cases. top secret is very difficult to get clearance from intelligence community to get those declassified for an indictment and for trial. confident documents might not be as co...

Was that part of what he does there really monitoring more on an international level, not as much domestically. josh so when we look at what is or is not out there, what is your sense of who is monitoring potential activity on these sites that could include sensitive intelligence documents? do we know. i can tell you after every major spy case that we've seen arrest in u. s history, going back to aldridge ames in 94 robert hansen, who was an fbi agent in 2001 after chelsea manning after reality winter after all of these espionage cases, the government doesn't after action and tries to determin...

Provide information present information into a courtroom without that being disclosed, but the bar for that is typically very high but again an espionage cases. that is certainly a concern that the government has. if they can plead, get a plea from this person. they don't have to worry about additional information. additional seat. critz making them out into the public light. so the fact the last thing i'll say is that was also a concern here because when you have a suspect who was facing serious jail time that is often a consideration in whether they cooperate or whether they try to, you know...