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They're letting the justice department run the investigation. if there's other evidence to the contrary, you know, i would second-guess that -- i wouldn't second-guess that. one other thing i want to know about these s.a.p.s, these special access programs, for americans who are trying to understand the bureaucratic speak in this, this is what we call code word programs. some of them, i wasn't even allowed to say the code word to other people. they were unacknowledged programs. this is the highest level classification that exists in the federal government. those are not things that a president ...

A letter for the national archives from trump's legal team was published online by trump ally, confirming hundreds of pages marked classified and special access retired in january. the nature of the classified information was raising concerns among federal investigators about the potential damage to national security. cnn's erin press has more now, reporting from washington. more than 100 documents mark classified, more than 700 pages in total. that is how much sensitive information the national archives says was found when examined 15 boxes of documents retrieved from donald trump's palm beac...

Amid new revelations about the highly sensitive character of the documents Trump illegally removed from the White House, the Justice Department appears to be expanding its investigation into the ex-president’s violations of national security procedures.

Least some of that but what do you think of what he said? >> yeah, well, look, it certainly is the case that those of us who had a security clearance for a long time occasionally you have a situation where someone inadvertently takes a classified document home and there is a process for dealing with that. the idea you throw multiple documents, classified documents into a box, particularly at this volume and take those out of the white house and then be asked for those documents to be returned and resist that request, you know, that sort of defies logic. i think he's right about just the idea t...

Here is what they found, this is the different levels of classification. they found documents that were classified at this highest level, sci, sensitive compartmented information, sap, special access programs. that is the tippee top of the top secret pyramid. >> that's a legal term tippee top. >> and in the letter archives says that's two things we have to do now, first, conduct an assessment, meaning fbi has to go through these documents, figure out is there any source who is exposed, is anyone now put in danger. and the second thing, ongoing criminal investigation. we've known there is a cri...