. >> mike morell, evaluate the affidavit for our audience, please. >> major, i had two reactions when read it. the first was the fact that these documents were mixed in with unclassified documents. you had classified documents in the vast majority of the boxes. that suggested to me a sloppiness in the handling of classified documents at the white house. the two white houses that i know best, the bush white house and the obama white house, there were very rigorous and strict protocols with regard to the handling of classified information, where it was records were kept, retrievals were made. that's what normally happens. that didn't happen in this case it sounds to me. the second thing that jumped out at me were the markings hcs, human control system, and si, special intelligence. human control system means information from cia spies. and special intelligence means information from technical operations of the national security agency. this is the -- this is the most sensitive material of the united states intelligence community. >> so the next natural question seems to me is how vulner

director mike morell. >> the ones most concerning to me are the ones that were marked h.c.s., which say marking that indicates that information was derived from c.i.a. spies overseas. >> reporter: the affidavit underscores the alarm about the possible vulnerability of trump's waterfront property. a secret service source tells cbs news it is a private club with protection but limited background checks. the affidavit goes on to provide a glimpse into the justice department's sources and who might have witnessed potential criminal activity at mar-a-lago, noting the department spoke to a ignificant number of civilian witnesses in order to protect them from intimidation or from being publicly outed, the florida federal judge and federal prosecutors agreed on the extent of redactions. the f.b.i. agent who wrote the affidavit also said there was probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at trump's property as well as conkra band, fruits of crime, and other items illegally. trump and his allies remain frustrated, his spokesman today saying the affidavit was political.

and by mike morel, he got out read out and this is what he said, white house official said thursdaysress in national historical park would focus on the continued battle for the nation and show how the presidency and this is the key part the central argument of 202020 candidacy remains as a sale ever with midterms coming into clear focus. to mark's point it seems like a campaign speech. >> trace: i went back and did a little research with the previous presidents talked about. these are supposed to be important, right, to unify the nation and prime time address beer george w. bush spoke about 9/11, he talked about hurricane katrina, and iraq, barack obama and the bp oil spill the end of combat and air strikes in syria, mass shooting in san bernardino and trump talked about e.u. travel restrictions. this is a political speech. so he's asking for networks to give him time for a political speech which should not happen. this is not to unify the country, this is to go out and dismiss half of the country. that would tend to be a problem that if you are a network, no, we will not give you ti

michael morell. mikeis this in course of the history and in terms of terrorism right now? >> john, from an historical perspective, this is very significant. zawahri was one of the individuals behind the 9/11 attacks so this is another significant blow to those individuals who attacked us more than 20 years ago. from a current day perspective, this is the leader of one of the two largest terrorist organizations on the planet, al quaida, the other being isis. so while they don't pose the same threat as a decade or 20 years ago, this does take a leader off the battlefield and will, you know, will to some degree disrupt that organization and force them to come up with new leadership. >> dickerson: and what does this tell us about the relationship between the taliban and al quaida? >> so this may be the most interesting point here, right -- he was in kabul, he was evidently at a significant kind of housing complex. so, for me, it underscores that the relationship between the taliban and al quaida continues, ri

locations that were far from the secure scifs described there by the former deputy director of the cia, mike morell assessing. director avril haines responded to a request and announced her office will leave an intelligence community assessment of the potential risk to national security that would result from the disclosure of the relevant documents. "the office of the director of national intelligence, odni, will closely coordinate with doj to make sure this doesn't unduly interfere with doj's ongoing criminal investigation." politico is reporting this. "the correspondence represents the biden administration's first known engagement with congress on the issue of the ongoing investigation ensnaring the former president. it is also the first known acknowledgement by the intelligence community of the potential harm caused by the missing documents, which prosecutors said friday included human source intelligence and information gathered from intercept -- from foreign intercepts." politico adds, about odni's announcement, "the intelligence community's review is likely to encompass whether any unauthori