CBS News investigative journalist Catherine Herridge explained during an interview over the weekend what some of the classified codings mean that were on the sensitive government documents that investigators recovered from former President Donald Trump.

Herridge, who worked for years at Fox News covering stories that the mainstream media often downplayed, gave her analysis on Sunday during an interview with John Dickerson on “Face The Nation.”

“What jumps out to me, John, is when you go to the section the willful retention of national defense information, by my count, there are 21 top secret documents, and the disclosure of top secret information has the expectation of exceptionally grave damage to national security,” she said. “But what stands out to me is some of the classified codings, like TK, or Talent Keyhole.”

“You don’t see that very often,” she said. “That’s about intelligence from overhead imagery. For example, if we’re looking at a terrorist target, do we have such good visibility that we can count the hairs on their head? Can we see what they’re eating for breakfast on their terrorist patio? Those are capabilities that we don’t want our adversaries to know that we have.”

“And then also Special Access Programs, or SAP, these are highly restricted programs because of the sensitivity of the intelligence and the technology, such as stealth technology, for example,” Herridge continued. “Think of classified information like the Pentagon. Special Access Programs are these handful of rooms where there are just a limited number of keys to control and restrict access to that information.”

Herridge said that some of the materials recovered by investigators were “way beyond top secret” records.

“Some of these are way beyond top secret, like, I said, Talent Keyhole, when you’re talking about Special Access Programs or SCI, sensitive compartmentalized information,” she said. “These really are the crown jewels of the U.S. intelligence community.”

Herridge noted later on in the show that individuals who have the clearance to handle these types of documents will face immediate consequences if the documents are mishandled even for just a brief moment.

“I have contacts who work in the nuclear weapons capability arena,” she said. “Let’s say you have a nuclear document, it’s on top of the photocopier, and you walk away, you leave it there. Your clearance is gone. You are out the door. There are immediate consequences.”

“Some of these are way beyond top secret,” CBS News’ Senior Investigative Correspondent @CBS_Herridge says of 21 top secret documents laid out in 37-count indictment against former president Donald Trump, includes TK (Talent Keyhole) imagery intelligence, pic.twitter.com/OlRykmCdNG

— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) June 11, 2023

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said last week his attacks on Donald Trump will work where others have failed because it will be the first time that the public has heard someone “prosecute the case” against the former president.

Christie, a former federal prosecutor, made the remarks during an interview last week on PBS’s “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover.” When asked how his broadsides could weaken the former president, especially given that attacks usually strengthen Trump’s poll numbers, Christie said that Trump’s supporters have “never” seen “anybody prosecute the case against him, a fellow Republican prosecute the case against him.”

“They’ve never had a Republican come out and really directly make the case in the context of a campaign on the facts against his record,” he said. “Margaret, he said he was going to repeal and replace Obamacare. He didn’t do it, even with a Republican Congress. He said he was going to build a wall across the entire border and Mexico was going to pay for it. He not only didn’t build the wall, we haven’t gotten our first peso from Mexico. He said he was going to balance the budget in four years. He left with the highest deficit of any president in modern history. He said he was going to retire the national debt in eight years. He’s added trillions to the national debt.”

Christie acknowledged that there were good things that Trump accomplished while in office.

“The tax cut was good,” he said. “Some of his regulatory reform was good. The Abraham Accords in the Middle East were good. But other than that, on the main core things he promised our Republican base, he failed. No one’s prosecuted that case.”

Christie said that he will know if his method of going after the president is working if he is raising money and if his poll numbers are going up.

“I think that there is a large part of our party that quietly, in a whispered tone, has had enough,” he said.

Christie said that Trump has disqualified himself from being president by claiming the 2020 election was stolen, the events of January 6, and the situation over the classified documents.

Christie hinted that he will not support Trump for president if Trump wins the nomination, even though he would have to pledge his support for the eventual nominee if he wants to end up on the Republican primary debate stage—assuming he meets the polling the donation criteria.

“I plan to do whatever I have to do to save my party and save my country. And to do that, I’ve got to be on the debate stage,” he said. “So they want me to sign a piece of paper? I’ll sign the piece of paper the same way Donald Trump signed it in 2016 and then got on the debate stage and nine of us raised our hands to reaffirm the pledge we had signed, and he refused to. And no one kicked him off the stage after that. No one prevented him from being in another debate. So I’m happy to rest on that precedent.”

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