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A former president to have that level of classification, those kinds of documents specifically pertaining to nuclear secrets what, are the risks entailed there? >> well there is -- the risks are immense. nuclear weapon secrets are not only classified, but beyond where things are normally classified. so, i worked for 25 years on the defense department. we have secret, top secret, top secret compartmentalized information, special access programs and then nuclear weapons which could fall into their own level of classification, about design and things like continuity of government, that is what we...

Nuclear weapons. now, that gives anyone in their right mind, pause if that's true, what are we learning tonight? >> exactly right. the idea that these documents -- nuclear weapons programs would be one of the things the fbi was concerned about are looking for, would be a dramatic step. we've reported today on cnn, we reported that among the disputes, the items that were in dispute during these months and months of back and forth between the trump lawyers and the national archives and the justice department, are documents that have to do with special access programs. is that the nation's most c...

If there's anything else in those documents as well. >> let's go to jessica now, and this "the washington post" reporting on the fbi search potentially for documents related to nuclear weapons. tell us about that. >> victor, everything is dovetailing here. katelyn reported what "the wall street journal" said is in these boxes. "the washington post" says it's related to nuclear weapons. our team was told that investigators had this evidence, that potentially classified documents were still at mar-a-lago, even after the national archives retrieved those 15 boxes of documents back in january. so ...

The justice department and the fbi. >> so the challenge in our business always is to sort the facts from what he throws up into the air, which is a lot. i just want to read again from the "new york times." the person briefed in the matter said investigators have been concerned about material from what the government calls special access programs. a designation even more classified than top secret. this is typically reserved for extremely sensitive operations carried out by the united states abroad or for closely held technologies and capabilities. so, you read that on top of the nuclear progra...

A special place to look at them, right, is that what you're saying? >> well, i think for any of these documents. certainly anything that is top secret you need to be in a certain facility to be able to review those documents. >> right, but -- >> sci is just a different level that is more restricted. >> okay. that's -- i got that right then. phil rucker, i want to come to you. you know, the thing that we all woke up to this morning was two pieces of reporting. one before the "wall street journal" got hold of this -- warrant before anybody else, we had two pieces of reporting overnight that were...