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>> it's a good question. it should be done immediately. it should have started quite a while ago. but there could be a lot of legal reasons here as well, but i can tell you what's already happened as part of the damage assessment because i've had to do things, certainly not like this involving a former president but my guess is when we see classifications like "h" for human sources and top secret and special access programs and orcon there have been likely sobering discussions where the fbi has had to sit down at a scif with other colleagues and say i'm sorry to tell you this but your informat...

Of information that was highly classified, but for anyone that has held the security clearance, that has been inside a secure facility, when you're talking about special access programs, it's a different level of protection. there are different layers of protection. there are restrictions, and you can see them. in fact, oftentimes, there are secure facilities within a secure facility to see these, and so it just really does raise the prospects of some real harm to national security with the fact that these documents weren't properly secured. >> let's explain that for our viewers. so, people ca...

Special access programs, or tc i, what goes through your head when you read that in the newspaper? >> what goes through my head is that there are two very sensitive subjects that could be revealed in the documents. one is a source of information. a human source, let's say, that there was someone close to kim jong-un who was a source of information. if you look at documents, you could tell, that this application only come from someone in this room, and that is, obviously, a big problem. there is a technical source of collection, or, a program that is completely classified that, is non public, t...

14 of them had classified materials in them, and we know there's more. take me inside what that looks like. >> i think "alarm" is the right word, and actually, part of the reason we know that, in fact, there was an alarm is because, based on this search warrant, we know that it was approximately may 16th when the fbi began reviewing these 184 classified documents from the archives, and just two weeks later, the department of justice was at mar-a-lago, on june 3rd, the reporting is that the chief of the counterintelligence and export control section was at mar-a-lago serving a subpoena, trying ...

A magistrate judge in Florida will now decide whether to unseal portions of the secret affidavit.