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Key, basically sounds like there is a person outside the door of that lock and key, that's a lock that it's as a heavier kind of security on a document at's exist. >> right, the whole point of the special actors programs and especially these tightly held special access programs, is that people don't lose track of anything, ever. obviously the system of native human so mistakes can happen, and even bad behavior can happen sometimes, but the whole system is designed not to have any what they call ike, not to have any spillage. and so it is difficult for a lot of people in the intelligence commun...

Know basis, not just top secret clearance. some special access programs can have as few as a couple dozen government personnel authorized to know of an operations existence. records that deal with such programs are kept under lock and key, almost always in a secure compartmented information facility, with a designated control officer to keep careful tabs on their location. but sex documents were stored at mar-a-lago, with uncertain security, more than 18 months after trump left the white house. joining us now is devlin merrick, washington post reporter focusing on national security and law enf...

Of the records are records that they cannot look at. they don't have the classification, and that includes some of the senior most national security officials in the country. there are in some instances for the special access programs, and i am not speaking specifically of records seized at mar-a-lago, but the category of special access program, super, super secret, as few as a dozen people can be read into the programs. the president or a cabinet level official, someone near to a cabinet official, as to approve someone being read into review the records. again, keep in mind, the alarm bells t...

Sources that we have have not provided that information about the senior most officials, and the process by which they looked at this material. but i would guess, a big guess, that somebody had to be deputize and multiple people had to be authorized and were given the need to know authorization and read into the special access programs so that they could review the documents, as part of an ongoing and increasingly more alarming criminal investigation. >> carol leonnig, washington post national investigative reporter, bombshell reporting that will have repercussions i am sure. we will hear from...

They don't have the classification, and that includes some of the senior most national security officials in the country. there are in some instances for the special access programs, and i am not speaking specifically of records seized at mar-a-lago, but the category of special access program, super, super secret, as few as a dozen people can be read into the programs. the president or a cabinet level official, someone near to a cabinet official, as to approve someone being read into review the records. again, keep in mind, the alarm bells that we are hearing about from multiple sources, on au...