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About a foreign nuclear weapons program. this is not like a momentum that donald trump had -- this is a report, presumably prepared not just for donald trump, but for people who need to know -- the information in the document, which is certainly more than one page, would include sources and methods of intelligence gathering. multiple sources and methods of intelligence gathering, perhaps signals intelligence, intercepts, and perhaps information derived from human sources, who were out there in the world, now, today, wondering whether or not somebody might have compromising information they pro...

That they had said all the documents back. now it turns out that that is not true and it turns out that some of these may have to deal with very very sensitive matters. so i'm not at all surprised at the fbi is now taking the action that they have taken and we are now gonna have to do our oversight as well. >> let me ask you about how compromised we may be here. let me get your view from the purge of the intel committee. how worried are you that clandestine operations could have been compromised here? or could be? >> i am really worried. i am really worried and people need to understand that t...

What is in those documents. we obviously don't know that yet. but that could be very damaging in and of itself. but then, what could also be revealed by the substance is the way in which that intelligence was collected. we called out the sources and methods of intelligence gathering. that is particularly sensitive when it has to do with human intelligence. because our adversaries can sometimes say we know exactly who it is that had access to these documents by seeing this

Experts have warned of the danger to human sources used for intelligence gathering, and that classified documents could have been vulnerable to spies.

And the evidence still stands. >> how is the significant from the announcement that the damage assessment will be conducted? i have to say, i can't recall a time when the intelligence committee had to conduct a damage assessment for something a former president of the united states did. >> it's very significant, it's necessary we, it shows you what we've come to and how much fear there is, legitimate fear, about the damage that could've been done not just to methods of intelligence gathering, not just to what is known, but specifically to human people who work for us in other countries, in thi...