office. and that everything in between there is redacted. so, clearly, they got information from sources at mar-a-lago, from surveillance, we don t know. it s all covered up. but they learned that their directive was not followed, there was still classified material there, unlike what they had been told, and that would be evidence of obstruction. let me ask you asha, let me ask you about haynes the directive the she will be conducting a damage assessment of the documents seized. walk us through how that works, would you expect that process to entail? i expect that process to be very long in this case. once they inventory all these documents, they are going to have to do a declassification review to look at all the documents that were classified, look at documents that may have
investigation and a special master that s well qualified that will be an independent third party, arm of the court to look through these documents to see what s there i think is important and i only have to point to the passports being grabbed as part of this search warrant. arthel: right, you, of course, you know better than i do that things like the passports will be collected if you re doing a you re grabbing whatever is in the boxes. i don t think the president knows what s in the boxes. that s return today him. i want to get to the fbi and your thoughts on the fbi in a minute but first i want to ask you your thoughts on director haynes assessment of potential risk to national security opposed by former president trump storing those secret documents at mar-a-lago. will this provide questions to many questions swirling around the case? matt: dni has important role on whether or not documents were
looking at the history of these cases, alex, these different programs. a do not think that these various agencies that only programs are going to necessarily wait for a political directive. but i think that haynes has carefully articulated that she is leading the edge. because she s not the face of the community, but it is mostly a policy not only organization. the cia will be looking its case, overlooking s program and so forth. they are going to go, back and it is sort of like a comprehensive medical examination. if you something that is bothering you and you can t put your finger on it, you re gonna put more than just have your doctor and put a blood. where you have cat scan, a spinal tap. it is very exhaustive, it is investigative. it is not exclusively passive in the intelligence agencies, they have some active measures that they can do to also gauge are their in consistencies, have changed their posture s. have there been any inconsistencies in the programs
processes which have probably been going on for a very long time, which provides information to the u.s. government to basically help our national security. yes, these things can certainly put not only u.s. citizens at risk but those we have recruited overseas to provide information on their governments at a very deep risk and i think we re seeing april haynes already understanding that and i would suggest she probably has done an assessment long before this week in terms of what kind of harm these documents could do if anyone seen them. our understanding is this actually started in may once the fbi was given access to the classified documents. i m curious to get your response or your reaction to what i heard from a republican congressman i just interviewed in the last hour. he tried to make the case that look, these documents, these classified documents weremar-a-
not only in assessment of these classified records, seized from trump s mar-a-lago residents, but also an assessment of the national security risks posed if these classified records were to be released and disclosed. haynes is also saying in this letter that her office will coordinate with the justice department to make sure that her assessment is not overlapping in any way shape or form with attorney janitor general merrick garland s independent investigation. since this letter was released, we are hearing some reaction from house oversight committee chairwoman carolyn maloney, intelligence committee chairman adam smith, the two lawmakers who took the lead on this effort and requested this information. two weeks ago today. they say that they were pleased with the response adding that the affidavit unsealed yesterday just affirms their quote, grave concerns that among the documents toward a mar-a-lago where those that could endanger human sources. they say it is critical that this is a