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Released letter. the national archives told the trump legal team it wanted intelligence agencies to do a damage assessment of those documents being kept where they were. katelyn polantz joins us now. to be clear for folks at home, so much to follow, this is classified stuff that was already returned in january, in addition to what they picked up in the search more recently. so tell us what we know about this letter. >> indeed it was. what we're learning now is that there was this newly released letter, the archives had sent to donald trump's lawyers back in may, throughout much of 2021 and int...

Documents comprising more than 700 pages, some with the highest level of classification, were retrieved back in january and the national archives told the trump legal team it wanted intelligence agencies to do a damage assessment. cnn's katelyn polantz live in washington. all this new information came to light just yesterday. what are we learning? >> john, what we're learning comes from a newly released letter that the national archives sent to donald trump's lawyers back in may. so may 10th the archives had these initial 15 boxes of documents back from mar-a-lago and they were going through t...

About that prevents the government from doing informal assessments. and what we do know from the exchange of letters between the archives and donald trump's lawyers in may, all recounted in that letter from may 10th that has now been disclosed from the archives to them is that there was concern at that point about the need to set up the possibility to do a damage assessment. and that importantly, mr. trump was on notice that the intelligence agencies were concerned about damage and were getting ready to be in a position to make that assessment. >> what about the legal strategy from donald trum...

0 a five alarm fire at the national archives over donald trump's failure to return top secret documents. tonight, the newly published letter of the ex president. and andrew weissmann on each revelation keeps looking things worse for trump. >> president trump's legal team at quite requested the appointment of a special master. this is kind of a last resort situation. >> why a trump appointed judges scoffing at his attempt to slow down the investigation. and then it's election night. steve kornacki is here for all the results. from new york, florida and beyond. all in starts right now. >> good e...

May hurt the president's idea of supporting and appointing a special master to give a look at this case. >> bret: last thing. tell us about this may letter from the national archives nara to the trump legal team. what does that all mean? >> sure. it's significant. first time we are hearing from narrow are a in letter form. may 10th the acting article vista of the united states debra walsh. she is responding to the trump team. and it gives kind of a timeline for where these documents were at mar-a-lago and when they were at mar-a-lago. when trump's team turned over 15 boxes earlier this year, t...