it said it found 184 classified documents in boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january including 25 marked top secret. some of the markings indicated the material was about human sources or spies that often work with the cia. underscoring fears the documents may contain america s most sensitive secrets. marshall cohen joins me now. it seems we re learning more and more by the hour, what are we learning about the damage assessment? it came in in the last hour it s a letter from our top intelligence official that she sent to lawmakers yesterday, answering their question, which is are you going to figure out if national security was put at work risk here and the answer was yes. she said, quote, the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilityate a classification of review of relevant materials. then she goes on to say, odni will lead an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national securit
cnn s natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we re learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren t sure whether the intelligence community would be able to see the documents that had been retrieved from mar-a-lago because they are part of an active criminal investigation, and the fbi typically holds very closely any evidence in those probes. but obviously the risk here, the potential risk to national security contained in these documents is just too great for the intel community to not be made aware of what s p