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documents related to nuclear weapons capabilities during that court-approved search of his florida residence last month and includes as the post puts it a foreign government s military defenses, including its nuclear capabilities and nuclear defense readiness. what country was the subject of this classified material was not revealed. but some of the material so secret that it s described as many senior national security officials are kept in the bark about them and only the president and some members of hi cabinet or a near cabinet level official know about them and can authorize others to be read in. this comes as the justice department is weighing its next steps after a federal judge sided with donald trump, agreeing to appoint a special master to review all of the documents picked up in this investigation and that include the possibility of appealing on the part of the justice department and bill barr thinks they should push to fight for. we will much more on all of ....
So much more. just to follow-up briefly on david s comment earlier in terms of the national security implications of the document that was released at mar-a-lago from mar-a-lago. the one additional thing that i would just add to that is that other countries, whether they are allied countries or they are add adversary countries will figure you who they are. whether they are intelligence relationships or foreign policy relationships depends on the united states being able to keep secrets and being able to have information about other countries capabilities that are able to be guarded. so i just want to add that that is one additional reason why the consequences of the severity of that document are so important for our national security and foreign policy considerations. good point. thank you for adding that. great to see you all. thank you very much. coming up, the pentagon is considering how it can support ....
They absolutely had to go in and recover this material. it s essential to national security. david, regardless of his motivation or those around him for keeping the document, do you think there could be a real impact going forward? i mean, other nations now know, a former u.s. president had these highly sensitive documents at his house. i mean, it s described as a foreign government s nuclear defense readiness. well, you know, it depends in large part on what country it is and how determined they may have been to try to get some of this information, if the information isn t already partly out in the public realm. just because something is classified does not mean it hasn t already been written about. obviously a lot written about u.s. operations against north korea, certainly against iran. but the fact that these documents, which were at least some of them marked sensitive compartmentalized information, some of them, we believe may ....
Senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe and corey cordero and national analyst david singerer. thank you for being here. we will talk about steve bannon in a second. the new detail from the washington post more detail in these highly classified documents picked up at mar-a-lago, david, i wanted to ask you about that first. there is a list of known and suspected nuclear nations, of course, nine of them. which country could this be? about? there are nine known nuclear weapon states and iran, which are seeking nuclear weapons, believe. the iranians deny that but certainly putting together the material for that. seems unlikely that the president would have documents about allies that have nuclear weapon, britain, france, ....