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Ts/csi, special access programs that only a handful of the highest cleared people would be read in on. >> i guess my follow-up to that, ken, is why are they waiting or what are they waiting for in order to launch the formal damage assessment? i want to read what the dni says about the formal damage assessments, saying, damage assessments shall be conducted when there is an actual or suspected unauthorized disclosure or compromise of classified national intelligence that may cause damage to u.s. national security, going on to say, damage assessments may also be conducted when there is an actual...

Private room, i'm going to assume that you've seen top secret documents, so from looking at these documents could a trained observer, or even a skilled observer, figure out methods and sources of intelligence gathering. >> yes. >> that would present some danger to operatives currently in the field? >> yes, without a doubt. because very often, intelligence reports -- the lowest level of classification is confidential which is barely classified. then there's secret. then there's top secret. then there's something called top secret sci, sensitive, compartmentalized information. even with top secr...

The archives reached out to lawyers for the former president less than four months after he left office last year seeking help in recovering missing material.

Said that when the archives were trying to get documents back, that it was the former president, donald trump, who personally reviewed the boxes in deciding what to return. that means he also decided what not to return. and we know from the archive, not just from "the new york times," that in those 15 boxes were substantial number of classified documents at the highest level. that is tssci, which is, you know, compartmented program, special access programs. they constituted just within the 15 boxes, 700 pages of classified documents. so that is incredibly damning. if you are a prosecutor, you ...

At nbc news but there's no reason to dispute it, the letter says that the documents they found in january included top secret, sensitive department information, special access programs. so the most sensitive documents in the u.s. government. we're talking about january. so it wasn't as barbara pointed out, until august that the justice department went to the extra step of getting the search warrant and doing the search. so there was a long time that they knew some very sensitive documents had been found at mar-a-lago, jose. >> and barbara, one of the things that stuck out from trump's lawsuit ...