the documents had been returned. it also including this new photo showing documents with classified markings laid out on a carpet. some of them found in a desk in the former president s personal office. the filing also says some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and justice department attorneys needed additional security clearances to look at them. doj also says trump s request for a special master is quote unnecessary and would significantly harm governmental interests including national security interests. the former president has until 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight to respond. a federal judge in florida will hold a hearing tomorrow on his request for a special master. with us now to take a closer look, nbc news homeland security continue julie ainsley, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say
in 2011, the iranians captured a uav, an rq 170 uav. that uav accidentally flew over the border of afghanistan and ended up in iran. so they ve captured that. so they exploit and proliferate our technology. that s why they have been able to get an upper hand on uav technology. also in 2012, they captured a u.s. drone in the persian gulf, so they have been able to catch a few of our drones and exploit that particular technology, and that s what they re trying to do here this week, to capture a particular drone. this is mostly for mapping and exploration of the sea, and it has tremendous capabilities so