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Security. so those are the three levels of classification. within those three levels there are compartments of segmentation of specific types of information which are restricted for the most part on a need to know basis. so just because somebody has a top secret clearance does not necessarily mean they have access to everything that's top secret. within that layer, particularly secret and top secret, there are categories, sub categories, compartments or what are called special access programs. sci, special compartmented information includes, for example, signals intelligence. the lion's share ...

Classifications is the degree of damage that can be caused if they get into the wrong hands. so, confidential would cause damage. then you move up to secret, which would cause serious damage, if compromised. and then finally, at top secret, you are causing what's caused exceptionally grave damage to the national security. now a lot of folks will say -- and then there's something above topsecret which is compartmented or special access. it's actually, no, for nerds like me with regards to classification, that's not accurate. the highest you can go's top secret. but there may be compartments wit...

The justice department were documents that had to do with special access programs. now, these are the nation's most closely guarded national security secrets. nuclear weapons programs would be among those types of documents. so, again, this is what "the washington post" is reporting. but it sort of falls in line with what we know has already been found. highly classified documents that should never have left the white house, should never have left washington, and were sent down to the former president's beach house, and that's the reason why they have had this months-long interaction trying to...

Republicans who days ago were near-united in blasting the Justice Department are allowing that nuclear weapons-related materials at Mar-a-Lago might be problematic.

Love notes to other world leaders and that might be the case, but something triggered enough alarm within the intelligence and law enforcement communities that has led us to this point today. >> and andy, you ran the fbi. you had to be at the top making these incredibly hard decisions. can you explain to us the significance of what it means that our reporting at cnn is that some of the boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago had materials that were part of the, quote, special access programs or s.a.p., however you guys term it, the acronym. why does that matter? >> we love our acronyms. typically peop...