i have tremendous confidence in him, his probeity and everyone who knows him and has worked with him feels the same way. so, i'm sure the justice department and the fbi have acted entirely properly. and we will learn more about the facts as they come out. >> former vice president al gore, i appreciate your time tonight. thank you. >> thank you. we'll be right back.

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the news continues with laura coates, who's in for don lemon tonight. laura? >> thanks, anderson. nice to see you. have a great weekend. this is "don lemon tonight."

i'm laura coates. i'm sitting in for don on this very busy news night after this busy news week. now we know what was behind the fbi's execution of a search warrant at mar-a-lago. while we got some answers today, there are frankly even more questions. and we're going to get into some of those tonight. this afternoon a federal judge ordering the unsealing of the warrant that authorized that search. and a list of what the investigators removed, allah, the receipt. now the warrant identifies three federal crimes the doj is looking into as part of a criminal investigation, including possible violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records. now let's be clear. no one has been charged with any of these crimes at this point, and we don't have any indication it's actually forthcoming. what we do know is that investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, which of course is the home of the former president of the united states, donald

trump, in florida. now, those unsealed documents, they show that investigators seized one set of documents marked "top secret/sci." what does the sci stand for? sensitive compartmented information. it's one of the highest levels of government classification. and it also means a lot about who gets to see those documents. they're supposed to only be viewed at a secure government location by certain people with that level of clearance. now, investigators also seized four sets of what are known as top secret documents, three sets marked "secret" and three sets marked "confidential." now, in addition to all the classified documents, the fbi also took more than 20 boxes of materials as well as binders of photographs. the property receipt also listed document about trump pardoning roger stone, who was a staunch ally, who of course was accused convicted of lying to congress

in 2019. and agents also uncovered material about the president of france. that's the category of information. but what that entails, what specifically was on those documents or within these photographs or anything else? we don't yet know. let's turn right away to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez and legal analyst elliott williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general under president obama. we have douglas london with us, today, a former cia operations officer and the author of "the recruiter: spying and the lost art of american intelligence." particularly apropos today, i should add. evan, i want to begin with you because i want to know, what can we learn from this search warrant and the receipts about the case that they might be at least investigating if not maybe building? >> well, laura, what this tells us is that this is a very serious case obviously. this is -- these are the

statutes that the agents gave to the judge before they -- when they sought to get permission to do this search on monday. and obviously one of the ones that jumps out at us is the espionage statute. which the way that one works is, you know, it sort of bypasses the immediate defense that you're already hearing from donald trump and his allies, his legal team, which is, well, he declassified everything. and what this statute talks about is essentially the misuse of what is national defense information. and so that's one of the interesting things here because there's other statutes that they could have used that, you know -- to say that they're investigating. but this is the one they went for, which seems to be part of the lawyering that went into this at the justice department. and clearly, you know, the fact that, you know, they emerge with 20 boxes of documents after having all of this interaction

with the trump team going back 18 months, going there back in june and removing documents and information that were classified, again, after the 15 boxes, which had classified information. they still emerged with 11 sets of documents that had various levels of classification, including the most secret, the most sensitive. it really tells you that in the end, they were after this, and they got what they were looking for. and now they are going to try to figure out whether this was a crime involved in keeping all these documents there. >> i mean, elliott, to evans point, first of all, one of comments we've been hearing throughout the week and since yesterday is that the former president claimed they were planting evidence. look, 20 more boxes, 11 more boxes, whatever it is, the idea of even planting that much information, of course, is absurd. even if there was any iota of evidence they actually did, which there is note. that negates that notion as

well. on the idea of the crimes that are mentioned in the warrant, obviously you have to be able to attach to the warrant something about a legal hook. you can't just say, i'm curious. i feel i'm being a trespasser. i want to know what you've got in your closet. it's got to be hooked to legal. but about these three federal crimes, can you help walk us through really what this means? because evan is right. when you hear "espionage," the espionage act, your immediate mind goes to spying, obstruction of justice, something else, the criminal handling of government records. what does all of this mean? >> right. i think people hear the words espionage -- it's an unfortunate word for the statute, frankly. in 2022. it was written 200 years ago. it should be the mishandling of documents. people think james bond or "the hunt for red october" when they think espionage. really, the gross negligence in the landling or storage of government documents could violate the statute there. all three of these things is the

mishandling and improper keeping of government documents at a high classification level, right? so, think about when we talk about things that -- you used the term sci, secure -- sensitive compartmentalized information. this is information that, if released publicly, top secret information would cause exceptionally grave harm to the united states. that's at least one class of the documents that we're talking about here. and there are others that are slightly lower classification level than that. all three crimes sort of float around this idea of the mishandling, sharing, copying, perhaps distributing, perhaps making available to other people. we don't know because we haven't seen the affidavits yet. just looking at what the crimes might be, that's why they're sniffing around a little bit. >> where does intent come into this? could you say i had no idea, or to evan's point, i declassified some aspects of it. obviously, it's not just the form you have to declassify,

it's the information itself. we have to have a track record or paper that says that was done. we don't have that yet. >> yeah. and it's going to depend on the statute. like i said, the espionage statute, the one i'm talking about there, there's one, gross negligence intent level there where somebody who's just so reckless and negligent in their handling of the documents can be charged with the crime. one of the others is willful. and we could do a whole semester of law school on the difference between grossly negligent and willful. >> let's not on a friday night. >> let's not in the four minutes we have here, let's not. needless to say, it just depends on the statute you're charged with. and there's a few here. and the ones you have all have sometimes different levels of intent. so it just depends. >> let me bring in douglas before you nod off during our law school lecture here. and it is a friday night after quite the week. but look, according to the search warrant receipt, the federal agents seized a set of top secret sci documents, four sets of top secret documents,

three sets of confidential documents, three sets of secret documents, and of course donald trump's florida home, it might be obviously a members only club, but that's not the level of security one would need to have house that sort of information. what kind of threat are we talking about that this could mean that the most sensitive levels of documents and information are available and possibly have legs? >> clearly the warrant can't expose classified information. and we're speaking of three levels of classification. but sci has a whole host of special access programs the military refers to it. these are -- you probably heard the term bigotless. limited to a certain number of who are read into the program. just having a top secret doesn't mean you can know how our satellites work or how our ease dropping works. these compartments are carefully scrutinized and maintained.

the danger is the exposure of that information can get people killed. it can get agents on the ground killed. it can certainly compromise the way we collect information. so, speaking of scifs, those are supposed to be created to withstand acoustic attacks or other forms of collection, technical and otherwise, that hostile adversaries might use which clearly isn't going to exist in mar-a-lago. but the warrants can't give us that detail because they're classified. >> one second, elliott. >> sure. >> i want you to weigh in, because i was going to ask you this question because the lawyers at some point for donald trump are going to have to evaluate if there's ever a trial, if it ever went past the search warrant aspect of it. from what doug just talked about and the idea of just the level of security that one would have to make sure these were not compromised or our national security wasn't, what barriers are put in place? and do the lawyers for trump

now have to essentially be ordained with a level of clearance in order to even view what has been collected? >> yeah, that's exactly it. we've been doing this long enough that that was pretty much exactly what i was going to say. you know, the kinds of things that the justice department sg go to consider is what you might call, i guess, aggravating factors here. that's not really it, but just things that make it worse. what was shared, what -- how things were stored improperly and so on. so, you know, in terms of what you have -- he used the term, scif. there's all kinds of standards as to how thick the door ought to be, whether there can be windows, how you store paper, and so on. and if we're talking about storage of documents at mar-a-lago, how egregious was the misconduct or behavior in storing these documents. and that's the kind of things that prosecutors are going to be looking at. >> evan, i want to come back to you in just a minute, but doug, i want to follow up with you on this. doug, you were a senior counterterrorism official during the trump administration.

and actually, as a part of that role, you observed a great many things. and you say that you had to be cautious about what kind of information or what information would even land in trump's lap. tell me about that and the why. >> well, somewhat the irony that the former president kept all these documents is he wasn't much of a reader. we had to write for a style in he really reacted to graphics, images, pictures with catchy headlines or things that had something to do with it. we had to write in a certain way to capture his attention and maintain his interest. when we were preparing these documents, we also understood he had a somewhat limited attention span. and i don't mean to denigrate the president's intellect, but he just wouldn't focus on any one thing for a long period of time, which is why the images. and if you see on the documents collected, it speaks of photos. i have to imagine those are photos from satellites, some of our most sensitive technology,

or images that might be associated with covert action activities, which also are extremely sensitive. those would be code worded information, so they can't use the code words, which themselves are classified. but, he was a difficult president to support in terms of trying to give him the information he needed while still protecting the way we collected it so that he wouldn't accidentally or otherwise speak off the cuff and mention something that an adversary could use to track down where we had an agent or perhaps a new technical tool that we were using in order to pull out information from their computers, from, you know, ground-based photography or what have you. so it was challenging for us. >> i mean, the way you describe just the idea to remind people that sci level, that's information gathered through our intelligence mechanisms. that's why it's so possibly compromising and harmful. but evan, to that point, i mean, i guess many people hadn't really thought about it, talking about the documents and the classifications. but the idea of photographic and binders and information that's visual.

when i think about national security in part, i think there's even a greater risk when you have the visual cues that are possible there. and if we take a step back for a second, evan, and we look back at the trump presidency, which you have followed and been -- done phenomenal reporting throughout -- in terms of concerns about intelligence, how does this fit into a larger pattern that you saw? >> it fits perfectly into the pattern. and i think doug is referring to exactly the thing. he had a history of going to mar-a-lago, waving around documents, important documents, very sensitive documents in social settings. you know, there was the incident in the white house where he, perhaps inadvertently, told the visiting russians about an operation that was dependent upon intelligence from the israelis. these are things that, you know, a president should never do. but, you know, what it tells you

is a lot about donald trump as a president. he loved the accouterments of being a president. he didn't necessarily want to do the things he needed to do to do the job. that goes all the way through his position now as former president. he goes through it at mar-a-lago. he feels these documents and these things are just accouterments that are part of -- mementoes of his time as president. and over 18 months that the government was trying to retrieve some of these things, he seemed to never really appreciate that this was serious. and that's reason why we get to the place we are now. you know, it is one of those things where there's a history. and there's a history of mar-a-lago, too, where you have foreign nationals who were prosecuted for trying to get in there. we knew and everyone knew that the security and the protocols for entering mar-a-lago were not what they should be, certainly not if you're going to be storing these sensitive type of materials there.

>> and doug, to the point of -- i think many people are asking the same question. you've heard the same of -- and i reference it like in "the office" when michael scott says, i declare bankruptcy, as if that's the way one declares bankruptcy. there's actually a process by which you have to do it, and you can't just do this. doug, when we think about this, what is that process for declassifying documents? if you are the president of the united states, you could declassify something. you could mention it at a podium, for example. but you could also have to go through a process. there's something about for the stamps, declassification, the information itself. what does that process look like to officially declassify a document? >> well, it's certainly not double secret provision. probation. even the president has to have a paper trail. it's a documented request of the agencies that own the information, might have originated the information and other stakeholders to see was there potential damage.

this did occur. you might recall president trump's last year of office, there was discussion in the media about the president interested in declassifying information about russian irish, russian details, trying to prove his point that the russians didn't meddle in the elections. and she stood up against it because it was part of an official process. once you declassify information, as you all know as journalists, everybody can get it. it's not just declassified for the president. it's declassified for the world, which is why there's a paper trail. and the paper trail includes comments because ultimately the president makes the decision. but it's an informed decision. so, it was agency-owned information, nsa, they would say, here's the consequences. here's the impact to ideally try to sway the president making the decision to make the right call. >> that's all included in the comments. that's what there would have been if there were a paper trail. i can't imagine, evan, the idea of being able to have a foia

request for formerly top secret information if it was really declassified. on that point, i don't want to miss this very important point that part of this discussion this week about this search warrant and what they've reclaimed, were able to recover and claim, there's been an unprecedented number of threats in the wake of that search including threats against the two agents who signed the court documents. first of all, why do people know the names of those two agents? because it was supposed to have been redacted. >> it was redacted. it was redacted by the court when the document was released. however, before it was released by the court -- before it was officially released -- someone -- i think we know who -- managed to get it to right wing news organizations, and at least one of them published a document in total, including the names of those -- those federal agents who were simply doing their job. they went there to do their job.

and then the former president's social media platform pushed out that information. so, now it's everywhere among his supporters. and of course predictably, those people are now having to be protected because there are threats against them. this is -- we knew exactly how this was going to play out, and this is exactly what happened. just real quick on the last point you were making, we saw this, by the way, in the trump presidency that, you know, trump went on twitter and said, i declassified something. well, what happened is the justice department under trump went to court and told the judge, that's not how it works. it's not -- it doesn't work that way. and in the end, that information was not declassified because there is the process that doug was just describing. and it was not completed. so, at the end of the trump presidency, in the end, you know, everyone understood that it just doesn't work that way. you can't just wait -- >> an important point not to miss here is even if he did,

even if he had gone through and declassified the documents, each of these three statutes we're talking about here, none of them says anything about classification. >> exactly. >> it's the mere possession of these documents, this ts sci, classified and top secret and sharing or possibly copying them or something else. these three statutes could still have been violated. >> right. >> ooh, is it spanish time? because i will bring mine in too. hold on a second. i love it. let me show you something. no matter how this flowchart goes, as you've all articulated, it seems to end in wrong, wrong, wrong, problematic, national security issues. of course we'll talk more about this. thank you, gentlemen. nice to see you tonight. >> great. thanks. >> thanks. federal agents seizing classified documents. doj investigating possible violations of the espionage act and obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. and at the center of all of

that, a former president of the united states. let the gravity of that sink in. i'll talk about it next with the former defense secretary william cohen.

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all right, look, the mar-a-lago search warrant we've been talking about for days now, that's been sort of picked at and wondering what is in it. guess what? as you know, it's now public. and we're learning the fbi actually recovered documents from trump's home. i'm talking 11 sets of classified documents, including some classified at the tip-top highest level. now, there's so much to talk about with the former defense secretary william cohen. so glad he's here with us today. i've been wanting to pick his brain about these issues. secretary cohen, it's good to see you. but i have to ask you, i mean, first, i wonder what your impression was and your reaction to the idea that there could be any reason why a former president would need top secret sci materials at their private residence following their term

in office? if ever? >> there's no plausible reason for the former president to have this kind of information in his presence or in that of his home. anyone involved in intelligence matters knows how serious this is. going back to my own experience at the defense department, here is -- the defense department spends almost $800 billion a year. with that money, we recruit, we train and equip the men and women of our military to be the finest fighting force on earth. we -- they give our -- they give up their limbs and lives for us. we should never do anything that compromises their security in any fashion. that's the reason for the top level top secret sci compartmentalization. so, any time a person, a president in particular, who's

handling this information, he must be sensitive to the fact that anything he does or she does could compromise the security of those young men and women who are putting their lives on the line every day. and i think that's what is so stunning about this revelation. and it -- it's been precedent -- there has been precedent. the first week in office, president trump waived the classification requirements for his daughter and son-in-law. the intelligence community said, this is a potential conflict of interest. they're still doing business. they could be exploited by having access to information. forget it. we don't care. so, he's been fairly cavalier throughout his four years in office and certainly since that time. and taking advantage of the knowledge he had and knowledge which he should not be in possession of right now. >> you know, i think it's so important the word choice you use, secretary cohen. you spoke about the information. there has been such a focus and emphasis on the specific

documents, the sheets of paper, the materials themselves as if there is but one source or way in which someone could evaluate and look at this. the idea of the information and what that could do and how it could travel i think is so important. i'm glad you pointed it out. speaking of that information and how the material is normally handled, i mean, even at the top levels of government, even those that have these top level security clearances, that didn't mean that everyone, no matter what, could view at their leisure whenever they felt like it, these documents, right? there had to still be a process, for the reasons you spoke of, right? >> i went through that process like everyone else at the defense department where top secret information was given to me, usually in the presence of someone from the cia, dia. and i sat there and read it, devoured the information, handed the information back so they could put it in a very safe place. so, that was the procedure that we operate under.

i have to say in this particular case, information is power. and that's the reason why adversaries and sometimes even allies want access to our information. and so a former soviet union, a russia, a china, or other countries, can look and say, where are the weaknesses in the united states? let's talk about nuclear weapons. the u.s. has what we call a triad. we have a three-legged stool in term of our security. we have land-based icbm, sea-based, and we also have air force. the russians are certainly looking to see what is the state of repair or disrepair of those systems? we know the icbms are kind of a bit old. what are their capabilities? how can we intercept them? how can we compromise them? so, every method is used to try and assess our capabilities. we do the same. that's the purpose we have, so much devoted to gathering information so we can say, how are we doing, how are we measuring up, what kind of

advantage does the adversary have, so we can do the best we can to protect every citizen in america but our people as one. >> just given what you described, i'm thinking the only safe place is the equivalent of a fortress of some kind that allows the information to be only viewed and seen or absorbed by those who have that fundamental trust of our national security interests and in our best interests. we know that there have been multiple security concerns at mar-a-lago over the years. like in 2019, remember there was a chinese business woman who was arrested after trespassing onto the property. she had a flash drive containing malware, electronic devices. i mean, could these documents have ended up in the wrong hands? it's not as if this was the equivalent of the kind of fortress you would describe. >> it's nowhere close to what is required and what is normally,

ordinarily pursued by every president in our history. your prior guests pointed out that, let's assume that the former president declassified all of that information, which is unlikely. but assume that for the moment. all of that information is still very dangerous in the hands of anyone who means us ill. it's the same information that we have -- what do you call it? top secret, sci? whether you call it confidential. the information itself is still very dangerous in the hands of those who don't mean well for us. and it could mean well in the hands of our allies as well. and hypothetically, those allies could be penetrated by adversaries. that's not something unusual in the intelligence world where you just don't know who has access to your information. that's why we take such great measures to make sure only those who need to know do know. and that information, when the president leaves office,

everything in his possession -- it's not his. it's the people -- it's the property of the american people. and there's a way for him to get it back, for his library as such in the future. but there's no reason why he should be allowed to have top secret information in his possession under any circumstances. >> secretary cohen, i have to say, as you're speaking, i was having a calendar go in my mind and thinking, look, he has not been the president of the united states since 2021, january, when there was the inauguration of president joe biden. it's now august of 2022. we're talking about perspectively about what could happen if this were to fall into the wrong hands. and i can't help but wonder if we are still in the perspective of the future as opposed to the past tense. i certainly hope something was deterred and it remains contained to protect your national security interests. thank you so much for your time tonight. >> god be with you, thank you, laura.

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tonight on the types of classified documents that were seized by the fbi during its search of mar-a-lago this week. now, one set of documents marked "top secret/sci", four sets of "top secret" documents, and three sets each marked "secret" or "confidential." i want to get perspective right now on all this from cnn's national security analyst, james clapper, of course the former director of national intelligence. can there be a better person to help us understand the enormity of what we're talking about, director clapper? i have to say, i mean, what was your reaction to just learning that, i mean, as a former director of national intelligence, that these classifications and these document types were even at a non-secure location, let alone that of a residence of a former president? how serious is this to you? >> well, for me, laura, it's extremely serious.

you know, having spent 50 years or so in u.s. intelligence. and when i think about how how hard it is to collect sensitive information that our policymakers need and how important it is to protect sources, methods, and tradecraft, and when you see this rather cavalier approach to harb harboring this information, it is really appalling. so this is another case that is stunning but not surprising. and i think you spoke to this, about -- earlier about when you step back and think about the magnitude of what's potentially

at stake here. now, i say -- i have to say that we -- even though we know, you know, the listing and the property receipt standpoint of what the fbi seized, we still don't know the substantive content of these documents. but simply the fact that they are classified as they are is an indicator of the seriousness of the potential breach here of u.s. national security. so as a life long practitioner of intelligence, this is -- you know, this is really serious. >> you know, on the point you mentioned about the idea of gathering it, i guess i hadn't thought the prospect of how this might make it that much harder to collect intelligence because there might be thoughts that it might end up in the wrong person's hand or be used in some nefarious way potentially. or the idea of how it looks to our allies. one of the categories information they said

involved -- it was an item recovered with material about the president of france. we don't know what that is, to your larger point. we don't know about the content of these documents. but what impact do you see this having on our relationship? or is the perception of the united states among our allies? >> well, it could be quite, quite serious. this is somewhat reminiscent of the revelations by edward snowden that had nothing to do with so-called domestic surveillance but did compromise and expose our intelligence capabilities and our intelligence knowledge of, you know, foreign countries. so, we don't know whatever this is about the president of france, whether it's an intelligence document or something else. but this is -- it's not helpful

certainly. and, you know, again, i go back to how appalling this whole situation is, given the apparent lack of security that was applied at mar-a-lago and the -- which is kind of a semipublic facility and people in and out of there all the time. so, you have to wonder, that information or what else might have been compromised. one other point i want to make, laura, about, you know, the president's authority to summarily declassify. there has been reporting from one outlet about the potential presence of nuclear-related material in those holdings. nuclear material is governed by a different set of laws starting with the atomic energy act, i think, of 1946. it's very, very restrictive.

and presidents don't have carte blanche authority to declassify nuclear-related material. so, i think that's an important point. now, i say that, not knowing whether the nuclear material is among those holdings. >> that is such an important point, and i'm glad you raised it because we are talking about this as this big -- under one big umbrella, the idea of, you know, confidential or classified materials. but there is nuance in each of that. and if it comes down to the idea of that there would be a former president who felt entitled to have a going back and forth to any degree of documents that were asked for by our national archives and beyond. director clapper, thank you for being a part of the show tonight. i appreciate it. >> thanks, laura. >> really kind of stunning to

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the fbi warning they're investigating an unpress unprecedented number of threats made against the bureau, all in the wake of the mar-a-lago search. the warning coming as we're learning more details about the armed suspect who was fatally shot in a standoff just yesterday after trying to breach the fbi field office in cincinnati. telling cnn that the suspect was previously known to the bureau. and as brian todd reports, a social media account with the suspect's name made increasingly violent posts after the fbi search of mar-a-lago. >> reporter: on a social media account bearing the name of the suspect in cincinnati, 42-year-old ricky shiffer, the user seemed to fixate on revenge for the fbi search of donald trump's home mar-a-lago. on monday, the day of the mar-a-lago raid, the user wrote, people, this is it. i hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified.

but if not, this is your call to arms from me. >> this was totally predictable, not the person, not the place, but the fact that angry people would take up arms and do something violent was absolutely predictable. and the worst part is the people who were pushing that rhetoric, they knew it. they knew what would happen. and clearly they made the decision to go forward. >> reporter: also on shiffer's account, the user encouraged others to go to gun and pawnshops to, quote, get whatever you need to be ready for combat. when another person responded to the user, saying they'd spend his picture and information to the fbi, the user responded, "bring them on." >> i think a lot of their effort right now will be focused on who he was connected with and what others may do. so people who had been involved with this individual either through social media or in day-to-day activities, i hope they're a little bit nervous. >> reporter: two law enforcement sources tell cnn ricky shiffer was previously known to the fbi because of his connections with the january 6th attack on the capitol.

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tonight the house is sealing a crucial win for democrats and president biden after months of negotiations. voting to approve the inflation reduction act.

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