including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trump s ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the premise which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in florida. the list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, an abbreviation that refers to top secret sensitive compartmented information. it also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. the list didn t provide any more details about the substance of the documents. to the extent that anybody is back to
as you know? reporter: that is a very, very, very smart thing to point out. and i think it s going to be a hugely important part of this investigation because the former president is coming up with various excuses or explanations for why these things were there. one of them is, you know, i declassified them. another one is even more exotic one is that just by sending documents to the residence at the white house from the secure areas of white house to his bedroom, that by virtue of that he was declassifying them. all of these things obviously there s a reason why he s doing this because he believes that these are going to be good defenses. what s interesting about the statutes that the government has ch chosen, the prosecutors have chosen to cite in this document, it doesn t depend on these documents being classified. 793, the espionage statute that sort of the one that everybody is focussed on, that one just talks about mishandling