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Kim, is this didn't happen in a vacuum. there have been multiple, multiple actions on the part of the department of justice, on the part of the fbi to communicate with donald trump's legal team to try to negotiate with his legal team for the return of these documents. we know a subpoena was issued to donald trump in an effort to get documents returned and we know that some document were returned to the united states government, but not all of the documents. so the fact that donald trump refused to return these sensitive documents again suggests that he may be again not certain, but definitely ...

From the court's website. evan perez, thanks as always. here now is the former director of communication for u.s. national intelligence and cnn national security analyst sean turner. also criminal defense and constitutional law attorney paige payt. welcome, gentlemen, good morning to you. sean, i want to get your reaction to the fact that these classified documents were sitting in trump's palm beach resort. yes, it's members only, but it's in his office, in storage. what can go wrong, right? >> i mean, where do we start? first of all, it's really important for people to understand that we're n...

In the search warrant required that the materials be classified, so as long as they are highly sensitive closely held, defense national defense documents, they are subject to the statute, so i don't actually even think that is going to matter, legally, whatsoever whether or not these are technically declassified . >> general early, some of these documents we now know were classified in an extremely high level called top-secret sei, can you explain what that means, and really what it would mean if they fell into the wrong hands? >> well, what you have to understand is when documents are put tog...

I'm talking about there, that's one, gross negligence intent level there where somebody who's just so reckless and negligent in their handling of the documents is going to be charged with a crime. one of the others is willful. and we could do a whole semester of law school on grossly negligent and willful. >> let's not on a friday night. >> let's not in the four minutes we have here, let's not. needless to say, it just depends on the statute you're charged with. and there's a few here. all have different levels of intent. so, it just depends. >> let me bring in douglas before you nod off durin...

Documents that were labelled as top secret sci and that is always the concern for the government for these documents which should never leave the premises of the secure place of the united states government ending up at his home in palm beach. >> and as it pertains to the sci documents, top secret, could those things be declassified by a president and taken like he has? >> well that is what he's saying. he says that i de classified them. it is a little more complicated than that. we have to focus on what exactly are the types of documents that we're talking about. we know, fredricka, from our ...