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tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former presidents home. the affidavit underscoring the fbis fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. heres cnns justice correspondent, jessica schneider. >> startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for...

A little bit and what we saw today in the unredacted portions of the affidavit and the redacted parts would only have made it look worse for trump, what we saw in the unredacted portions is not just probable cause, but overwhelming evidence of three serious federal crimes, one of which was espionage. and in footnote two of the -- >> go ahead. >> of the affidavit on age 22, in footnote 2, the affidavit explains that all of this stuff about the presidents declassifying the material is bogus. not o...

Manafort was charged in this district, allegations, again, that were unrelated to the 2016 campaign or to any collusion with the russian government. and just in case thats not emphatic enough in this filing tonight, both of those sentences i just read you, they both have footnotes, and the footnotes to those no collusion sentences also say no collusion. the first one says quote, mr. manaforts guilty plea in the district of columbia case includes no charges that he colluded with the russian gover...

What the senate intelligence committee source tells me is paul manafort and it talks about a request from russia to meet with mr. trump. the e-mail goes on to say that russia has been eager to meet trump for quite some time and has been reaching out to me to discuss and this footnote relates to that e-mail and it was forwarded to manafort to another campaign official which im told is gates who responds, lets discuss. we need someone to communicate to d.t., presumably d.t. is not doing these trip...

Russian influence, into the election, and whether or not there was influence. so there was a continued investigation. the charges against him, again, indicate that he lied to investigators and they showed that there really was intent on the part of the russians and knowledge on the part of members of the campaign that there was russian intent to be involved with the campaign. so what his plea document demonstrates is that not only was he trying to set up meetings with russian government official...

Contact 1, who introduced me to both putins niece and the russian ambassador to london who also acts as the deputy foreign minister. it goes on. the topic of the lunch was to arrange a meeting between us and the russian leadership to discuss u.s.-russia ties under president trump. so lets start with that piece. ive got cnn national security correspondent jim sciutto. listen, there is a lot. weve all been reading through this affidavit on this side, george papadopoulos and people taking a note, p...