congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump s home. reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search. okay. that means they re going to do a review to figure out how classified these documents were. there s a few different levels of classification. and they re going to figure that out first. she went on to say, odni, that s the director of national intelligence, will also lead an intelligence community assessm
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
from mar-a-lago in january including 25 marked top secret, one particularly disturbing revelation markings on some documents to indicate the material is related to human sources or spies. cnn s natasha bertrand joins us now. what more are we learning about what the intelligence community is planning to do here in terms of this damage assessment? they are taking this very seriously. yeah, jim, so we just learned this afternoon that the director of national intelligence avril haines, she has written letters to the house oversight, house intelligence, and we just learned senate intelligence committees telling them that she along with the justice department, they are conducting a classification review, certsesh essentially to see whether these documents are prosecuting attorneyly properly classified and importantly she is going to launch a review of the risk that these documents pose to the national security of the united states, the fact that they were missing, that they wer
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