be located there. post sources did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, such as whether it involves weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation, nor did it say whether any documents were recovered as part of their search. cnn is reaching out to donald trump and his representatives for comment. but this adds a whole new level to a day that was already extraordinary, as the attorney general of the united states announced the doj has asked the judge to unseal the mar-a-lago search warrant and property receipt, both of which donald trump did receive. i want to bring in cnn national security analyst juliet kei yam. she served at the department of homeland security under president obama. welcome to the show. thanks for having me. let s start with this. there are so many questions right now. and this is a bombshell. if the post reporting is correct that this had something to do with documents relating to nuclear
make the extraordinary decision to send law enforcement into the president s house to seize this material and this information. juliet, can you give us a sense of what this is going to be like? and peter, i ll also ask you this. for those that went in, for those that jumped through all the hoops, they did go to a judge, but even before then, we heard from former president trump and some of those surrounding him that, like, we had a great relationship. we had a great relationship. i don t know why they did this. what does this tell us about why they did this? it sounds like there was some lying going on. oh, yeah, absolutely. and so, one of this is like, we just don t know if this was a carelessness. i tend to think this was more intentional at this stage only because donald trump did give up some materials. he did give up some records. we know that. we know that other boxes were confiscated. so, why were these materials which, once again, we don t know what percentage of the mate
it, we don t know. so, in my expert opinion, that s the range of possibilities. so, people can understand that we re still not there yet. but none of it is good. i ll say that. but, you know that range is also terrifying to some degree. yeah. just listening to you discuss what this could be. and, again, we need to make clear, we don t know exactly what it is. and we don t know whether or not the fbi was able to obtain those records. but we are hearing this reporting. and as you said, t washington post has a lot of inside information from their sources and haven t been wrong much. so, juliet, please stick around. let us right now bring in former assistant attorney general tom dupree and former fbi counter espionage treater peter strzok. peter, i want to go to you right now. the question is, if this was a regular person and i put that
well, sara, when this story first broke about the search in mar-a-lago and i was asked what would be the range of classified information that s conceivably stored there, and i speculated that, you know, nuclear weapons-related information, you know, would kind of top the range, the holiest of holy. but i doubted it because i thought i thought even donald trump would protect those kind of secrets. well, apparently that s not the case. now, having said that, we don t know, as juliet said in your last segment, exactly what we re talking about here, whether this is foreign information on foreign nuclear weapons or the worst case, as juliet said, our own systems. and potentially, this is quite dangerous.
supporting donald trump or throwing the fbi under the bus, trust me. this isn t getting better. this story is not getting better for donald trump. it is only getting worse. we don t know what it looks like. but this story is i believe because of the reporters has any foundation, there s going to be no justification whether it was nuclear materials of an enemy or, as i said, worse case scenario, of us. juliet, we re going to get to some of that and some of what we ve been hearing over the past 72 hours. there s really disturbing attacks on the fbi. peter, i do want to ask you about the rank and file here. and those attacks and what you think that has done after they have gone in on this extremely sensitive mission, that they had to have known was going to have blow back at some point. do you think they were expecting this? and were you happy with what ag garland said about those attacks against the rank and file?