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Take. that before the last couple of days there has been some speculation that maybe donald trump took stuff away that he should have taken. that should've been in the archives. not all that serious. as we uncover more of this in the next 24 hours, if it becomes this serious, what's happened? what should happen? >> well i think donald trump should be treated like any other former government official. if they intentionally took documents, or took information out of the government, there is a highly sensitive of classified nature, i think there should be penalties for that. or there should be in...

One former justice department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top secret information described by the people familiar with the probe would probably cause authorities to try to move as quickly as possible to recover sensitive documents that could cause grave harm to u.s. security. the washington post goes on to to quote david loughman, the former chief of the justice department's counter intelligence action, which investigates leaks of classified information who told the paper, if that's true, it would suggest that material r...

Declassified, would have pose a national security risk to america? would we ever find out if that's true? >> well who knows what document he may have taken out of the white house. clearly there were some, that's why the fbi and doj going after this. but there is supposed to be a record of every document that was declassified. and what i'm hearing from the trump people is that well, it wasn't recorded. well that allows trump and others to say after the fact, he just the cost by this. that is not the way national court is possibly manage and handled, and particularly overseen by the president of...

Its top secret, highly classified environment, is dangerous? >> obviously, our adversaries. specifically russia and china, would do anything to be able to gain access to these types of documents. because we give them insight, into what our capabilities, our particularly what our areas of vulnerable billet he might be, and, if anyone happen upon them, if they tried to find a user or a party that was interested in them, they could easily do that by going overseas. that's why these documents, this information is kept so highly tightly controlled because what you don't want to do is give our adver...

Tonight's story, there was obviously reporting during donald trump's term in office that whether or not information is classified or not classified, there were allegations and examples during the trump administration of sort of the mishandling of highly classified information, and the fact that people reported that often these things would be in the hands of people who either had -- one have had any reason to have it, and certainly didn't have the pull of occasion to have it. so tell me how that fits in with the level of concern around classified national security related documents being at to...