taken. they made public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. reporter: on friday, some details of those documents were revealed. fbi agents removed more than 20 boxes of materials as well as binders of photos and at least one handwritten note. according to the property receipt, seizing one set of, quote, top secret csi documents, four sets of, quote, top secret documents, three sets of, quote, secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. but neither the released warrant nor property receipt detailed the contents of those classified documents. however, sources familiar with the investigation told the washington post that documents about nuclear weapons were among the items sought. the search warrant did identify three federal crimes the justice department is looking at as part of the investigation. v violations of the e
v violations of the espionage act, obstructing justice and criminal handling of federal documents. after months of back and forth with the former president s team, in january the national archives and records administration, known as nara, retrieved 15 boxes of materials from mar-a-lago, releasing a statement saying some of the records it received were, quote, torn up by former president trump. according to a source familiar with what the archives discovered in the boxes, some of the materials were shls quote, special access programs. in february news outlets reported the nara asked the justice department to investigate. fast forward to june 3rd. four investigators, including a top justice department counterintelligence official visited mar-a-lago seeking more information about classified material. serving a grand jury subpoena for some of the sensitive
but we do. stand with us. homeland security are warning of violent threats against law enforcement and government personnel in the wake of the search at mar-a-lago. the two issuing a bulletin that reads in part, quote, these threats are occurring primarily online and across multiple platforms and include a threat to place a so-called dirty bomb in front of fbi headquarters and issuing general calls for civil war and armed rebellion. joining us now on this is cnn law enforcement analyst and former deputy director of the fbi, andrew mccabe. andy, thank you for being with us on this. this is a very different thing than personnel in the fbi that
of classification here. they were relate both to the substance of the information contained in there and can also relate to how that information was obtained. let s begin with the lowest level. that s known as classified. this is defined as something that could damage or disdisclose an element of national security. examples in this category might be particulars of a weapons system, the range of a missile, say, or the number of soldiers deployed on the battlefield. next level up, that is secret. damage for classified. this is categorized as something that could cause, quote, serious damage to national security if it were to be revealed. this includes things like contingency planning, also battlefield intelligence. next step up from that familiar to people, top secret. this is defined as something that could reasonably cause exceptionally grave damage. a step up from where we were talking about at secret. things in this category might be something related, say, to nuclear weapon systems,
young people. good times. insurance! only pay for what you need. liberty liberty. liberty. liberty. former president trump and his allies are giving evolving and sometimes conflicting defenses about the fbi search at mar-a-lago. what s the truth? here now, cnn fact-checker, daniel dale. great to have you here. let s just start with one of the things trump himself said. he said essentially barack obama did the same thing. he said, quote, president barack obama kept 33 million pages of documents. how many of them classified. how many of them pertained to nuclear. word is, lots. what s the truth here, daniel? there s no truth to that. you don t have to take my word for it because the national archives and records administration issued a statement totally de bunking this. they said the national archives