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Recommending or for a attorney general deciding to recommend an indictment against the -- against the former president. and talking about the 90-day rule before, one of the things that was disclosed early on is this was in the early stages of the investigation. so, nothing is going to happen for a long time. but they are reviewing -- neither side knows what they have in terms of the documents. so theyre doing a filter team. where the filter team, the government filter team is looking for privile...

>> and when we talk about an ongoing case that chuck just alluded to, it really ongoing. and you report more than a week after the search, agents are still sifting through the seized documents. does that really underscore how much was taken? >> it does to me, lindsey. it also underscores just how meticulous the fbi is being here. were talking about the filter team. so this is a group of fbi agents and analysts who are not affiliated with the investigation. their job is to remove documents that c...

Jose. >> paul, almost everything about this case is unique. is it normal for there to be requests to release search warrant affidavits? >> it is actually quite normal, jose. defense attorneys usually ask for it because it will reveal information about how to prepare their defense. but judges almost never grant these, especially in a case like this, where releasing the affidavit would release confidential sources or more specific information about the top secret classified material that was taken...

A glimpse of what might happen if the former president is actually indicted on something. this is just a search warrant generating this dialogue. imagine if he is ultimately held accountable and arrested? >> thats why frank, it is our duty to be telling the truth every day, every night as loud as we can. the former guy went to social media today complaining that the fbi had taken three passports from mar-a-lago. can you explain standard operating procedure and what goes on during one of the sear...

You directly, brianna, from capitol hill, theyre downplaying it, saying maybe this information wasnt necessary to keep secret. >> before you said, the doj doesnt put words or phrases in these types of statements cavalierly. so when they say potentially witnesses for other investigations seem to be putting it in there for a reason. you also seem to be saying the doj wanted to get something off its chest here. >> i think thats totally, totally possible. they would not choose these words lightly. t...

Well, is he being perceived as a flight risk? does this mean that charges could be imminent? now, doj later tells us the passports wererosenberg, i was get your take as to what you think this means. was this simply passports were scooped up with other materials that go through the filter team, then theyre returned appropriately, or do you think there is a greater meaning behind this? we should note, the former president had planned to travel overseas later this month to check out some of his gol...

Former presidents team. at about 1:30 he goes on his social media platform and accuses the fbi of stealing his passports. doesnt mention the fact that theyre trying to return it to him. its not, of course, until about 11:00 p.m. that the fbi puts out a statement saying, look, in the course of doing the search, the filter team did take these passports. they did arrange for those things to be returned to the former president. this is routine. this happens a lot. a lot of people were wondering whet...

Asking over the last few days, the questions of what trump has said that he did a mass declassification of documents, that just by sending documents from the west wing to the residence, he was -- they were deemed declassified. those are things these two men as white house lawyers would have a window on. the question is, we dont know what they were asked, but they would know the answers to those questions. >> these questions are, of course, core to whether there will be an indictment which is the...

Court. back when michael cohen was arrested, seized, and searched, the justice department collected a lot of information that hes claimed was his attorney/client work product for donald trump. and what happens in that sort of situation is someone like trumps attorneys could go to court, and they could file a claim that says, please, court, provide a third party to look through these things. we knoll the justice department will use a filter team to make sure there arent really privileged things t...

That in fact are attorney/client privilege. but thats where the government will put a filter team in place to weed those documents out and ensure that prosecutors who are actually on the criminal investigation dont see them. so, this is really a claim without any basis at all. >> and, josh, we only have a moment left, some of these documents were labeled top secret, thats one of the miest levels. then top secret and classified. there are 11 sets of classified documents. one of the explanations f...