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tell us what else youve learned. >> i mean, i think its significant especially the photos yout discussed last hou that show just how this was organized. i think a key part of this is essentially them not trusting the trump team because after they had that initial grand jury subpoena that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump lawyer, name is redacted in this latest filing, so weis dont know based on the filing who it was, but has been reported publicly about this...

taken from that search. and it reveals the shear scale of government documents found in that former presidents personal home more than a year and a half after he left office. and among what was seized, we know more than 100 documents had classified markings along with more than 11,000 government documents and photographs without the markings. intermingled with gifts and clothing among other things. and keep in mind this is after trumps attorney signed a statement saying everything had ...

so walk us through. >> hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retri...

>> sandra: "america reports" with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trumps florida home. now its up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. im sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. >> john: as we like to call it around here, thats what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved...

In front of you. these cover pages marked top secretrk and secret. theyre obviously screaming at you -- theyre screaming at you that these are documents that need to be handled with special care and they need to protected and kept inside secure government facilities. i just completed a tour inside the government the national security council and dealt with these documents everyday. if the fbi came into this office, my home office where im sitting now and found documents like that spreadfo across...

Staffers at both the white house and mar-a-lago who said that they were not at all surprised that in these documents that were newspaper clippings and photographs and presidential correspondence were classified documents. documents that were unmarked and in essentially the wrong place and that is because of trumps record keeping in the white house and then again in mar-a-lago. he said he was known to walk around and pick stuff up from one box and put it into another. there was to rhyme or reason...

The correspondence with kim jong-un. there was not a real system in place. and again, this goes to a larger picture here of what they discovered. the sheer volume of the documents. but this is one part of that that his former staffers that his former aides were not surprised to see. >> kristen holmes, thank you so much for that. i want to bring in now former federal prosecutor and host of on the topic podcast, ronald omary otty. so we just heard that, that trump and many of his alleys were say...

Affidavit that we finally got to look at yesterday, it gave us new details about the classification markings on some of those documents and this was very alarming. it is a ton of acronyms to ill break them down and explain it. but these markings were on the documents according to the fbi. some of them said orconand that is the agency that created the document like the cia or whatever, they have to give authorization for that document to be shared beyond that agency. obviously that is a tight con...

A special master to oversee the review of recovered evidence. so as to be able to pars through what the federal government claims has to be theirs or what he claims is rightfully his and what would that special master do exactly? >> so, special master is a third party lawyer who takes a look at documents for privilege. and it is usually in the context of a -- a situation where you know youll have a lot of attorney/client privilege documents. for example, the search of a lawyers office, when mich...

And frankly, i will say just from looking at this, really, the case looks very airtight to me. it looks very strong. and really, to me, it is almost like when people ive seen some comments, well it is all about the documents. it is like, saying in the drug case or a narcotics case, this is all about heroin. yeah, it is a straightforward case, and youre not supposed to keep top secret classified documents when which youre nonot entitled to have them. >> it is heavily redacted but why is it so com...