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Read the headline that there were nuclear secrets being housed down at mar-a-lago, that the former president was loathe to give up and appeared to have lied about even when in possession of? >> it's hard to be surprised by anything we learned that donald trump my app done. still, it's quite shocking. i don't know about the documents, but based on karen's the script in, it does sound as though these are documents that are part of special access programs. these are documents that are the most highly sensitive and highly restrictive for the new u.s. government. some of these programs still specif...

Guess, that somebody had to be deputized and multiple people had to be authorized and were given the need to know authorization and read into these special access programs so that they could review the documents as part of an on going and increasingly more alarming criminal investigation. >> carol leonnig, washington post national investigative reporter, bomb shell reporting tonight that will have repercussions. i'm sure at some point we'll hear from the former president about these nuclear secrets apparently housed at his beach club down at mar-a-lago. thank you for making the time to be here...

Related to nuclear secrets in the august 8 search reporting this. a document describing a foreign government's military defenses including its nuclear capabilities was found by f.b.i. agents. the post adds only the president, some members of his cabinet or cabinet level official could authorize other government officials to know details of these special access programs and they note such documents would likely require being kept in a secure compartmented information facility or scif. earlier this morning senator marco rubio had this reaction to the report. >> first of all again we really don't...

Describing a foreign government's nuclear secrets was among the top secret items the fbi seized from mar-a-lago about a month ago. let's bring in one of the reporters behind that report, national investigate reporter carol leonnig. good morning. it's good to see you. i want to read from you piece, documents about such highly classified operations require special clearances on a need-to-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 operation's existence. records are kept under lock and key ...

After a report on nuclear material found during the FBI's search at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, there's a chance to re-evaluate the story — by the GOP’s own standards.