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Documents. that's because this was a defense he came up with after the search. >> jonathan, i do want to get to the classification of these documents, as we just heard from dave, many of them had some of the highest levels of classification, marked top secret sci and special access programs as they're known, knowing these documents, again, more than 700 pages, were in boxes at a resort down in florida. how worrying is that to you? >> it's very worrying. and the reason being is that the government has a very strict nomenclature that they apply to information in the government structure over the...

Author of "midnight in washington: how we almost lost our democracy and still could." congressman, thank you for joining us. or mr. chairman, i should say. you're also chairman of the house intelligence committee. you asked for a damage assessment and a classified briefing from the intelligence community last week regarding the raid on mar-a-lago, the search warrant on mar-a-lago. have you heard back from the intelligence community? and do you have any concerns about the potential for this precedent, a search of a president's house, to be abused? >> we haven't received a damage assessment yet....

Documents of varying levels of classification, including some deemed so sensitive, they're only meant to be viewed in a secure location. we know the fbi reviewed security camera footage from the former president's estate and what they saw on that video may have raised concerns about who had access to this material that shouldn't have. >> and one more quick question before you go. where does the investigation go from here? >> there are multiple directions for this investigation, linsey. i think two of them that are pretty interesting from the intelligence community's point of view, they want to...

Likely to become important facts if criminal charges are materializing here and investigators try to narrow down who exactly mishandled these documents. alex? >> katelyn polantz, thank you so much for that. i'm joined by a legal analyst and former los angeles county prosecutor lonnie kooms. what do you make from what we just heard from katelyn there about this letter from a trump lawyer claiming in june that all the classified documents had been returned to doj. we now know that was not the case. 11 sets of classified documents going up to what's known as top secret sci, which is one of the ...

Chair of the house intel committee, is now asking the nation's top intelligence officer oavril haines for a damage assessment on all the documents seized. he wants to know the fallouts from the classified documents being kept essentially at a private residence. he says, quote, the former president's conduct potentially put our national security at great risk. >> now the call for more information comes as sources tell cnn that one of trump's lawyers stated back in june that there was no more classified documents being kept in mar-a-lago. but, in fact, fbi agents found a trove of materials there...