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To what the potential purpose or motivations might have been. but one of the, you know, unanswered questions here. >> right. and we now know that among the documents recovered from mar-a-lago, one set of documents, mark, to top secret sci, four set of top secret documents and three sets each marked secret or confidential. help us out, director clapper, could you explain this sci classification for our viewers as well as these other categories, why is this so important? >> well, there are three levels of classification as you infer. there's confidential, in ascending order of importance and gra...

Of course, that spasm of violence on that day, which obviously is the subject of the january 6th investigation. and all of that is sort of not really on the front page right now because we're focusing so much on what occurred at mar-a-lago a few days ago. let's clear something up, if it were any other person not named trump who had eleven sets of classified documents at their home, including items marked top secret sci, how would you be treated by fbi? i mean, it's almost because trump goes after people, he engages in character assassination. he's gone after you, for example, and so on, that t...

Taken to declassify material like it. this is information collected by the united states intelligence community. some of the documents that have been retrieved reportedly include top-secret sci, that's compartment information, probably including signals intelligence collected by the national security agency, possibly human source-related information. and we don't live in an authoritarian regime where the ruler by fiat or, you know, impulse can do whatever he or she wants. we live -- at least for the time being because a democracy under the rule of law. and credit the department of justice for ...

May that there was sensitive material in that room, one might think they should have acted sooner. >> this top secret sci, do you know, maybe you don't, it's just something i considered on the walk-up here, if a former president retains the clearance to view information at that level? of course when he is the executive, he has that clearance. but after he leaves the office, does he retain it? >> so he likely -- yes, he retains his clearance level. but in order to have access to classified information, you need two things. you need the clearance level and the need to know. now, often, former ex...

Some marked at top secret sci, so that's sensitive compartmented information, so that is really among the highest levels of classification in that system for national security, and we also know that that is one set of the documents, there are also three sets of confidential documents, three sets of secret documents and four sets of top secret documents. those are the three different levels of classification that the u.s. government uses. the "wall street journal" report also says in total there are 20 boxes that were removed from mar-a-lago, and it includes things like binders of photos, the c...