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it. more that from jessica schneider. >> reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying im not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. >> much of our work is by necessity...

congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trumps home. >> reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of j...

at risk. hello everyone welcome to "fox news live" i have eric shawn hi arthel. arthel: hello eric hello everyone i am arthel neville. says the intelligence committee will deliver an assessment of risk to national security if this top-secret documents were exposed. the fbi affidavit claims the records were not being stored in a secure location at mar-a-lago. they had probable cause to search the estate. former president trump and his legal team have refiled to have a special master rev...

potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. theres also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, theres public interest involved here. cnns jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? >> we dont know for sure, anderson, but its possibl...

than they originally thought they could. you know, the judge move really swiftly today. it was less than four hours after he received prosecutors for post redactions let he ruled that what they propose would, in fact, be sufficient, that it should be released to the public by noon tomorrow. and the reason its interesting that this judge came to such a quick conclusion is that when doj argued in court last week, they said that any redactions could be so extensive that it would make the ...

this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trumps possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handl...

there are frankly even more questions. and were 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. lets be...

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including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trumps ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the pr...

this is cnn breaking news. >> and lets get straight to the breaking news. the unsealing of the search warrant authorizing the fbi search of former president trumps florida home at mar-a-lago. cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez is working the story for us. first of all, what are we learning from these documents and what did the fbi find? >> wellering wolf, this extraordinary search of the former president ended with the fbi taking away about 20 boxes of documents and items fro...