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Trump team also asked for. theyre looking to keep that locked down at this point. thats not uncommon in a normal investigation. i just want to share that as well. not something we would normally have access to but perhaps something media companies might fight for. >> thats interesting because there was a footnote, correct me if im wrong, in their lengthy filing that said there were prepared to unseal that. they had prepared it in a way that would allow more public access to it. interesting now t...

None. just to be clear, there is no rationale for anybody who is aware of the existence of the documents and thats why the location of them and the amount, after a long period of time that is laid out by the department of justice in this filing that they and the archive sought them. the idea that donald trump was unaware of these when the fbi could find them in a number of hours and the location of all of them included his own office and desk drawers and they were next to personal items. i thoug...

Msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? >> one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say the investigation is not simply about retaining records that should have gone to the national archives and should have been preserved, that theres a criminal nature and its not just a matter of appointing a third party to check behind the fbi and doj. this is about incredibly sensitive material, as you can see right there, that was not properly resto...

Documents. and the attorney christina bobb have been so uncooperative to lead agents to expect that the trump team might be obstructing the investigation. what stood out to you as you read this last night? >> thats right, willie. this is the most significant rebuttal weve seen from the justice department to the trump team. i think were learning more from this than we ever did from the warrant or the affidavit that we were waiting for last week. now, were learning this is not just a matter of the...

Have been thwarted as a result of international cooperation. i would not blame many of these intelligence services for not wanting to move forward with doing business with us. that can have very deadly consequences for americans. >> yeah, 100 percent. pretty sobering what youre talking about. melissa, based on the war that was previously released, we knew the espionage act was one of these potential crimes. they used to justify the search, but the affidavit, affidavit sites section you have this...

That. of that 21 pages by my quick count here are redacted in part or in full. so there is a lot of information here about this ongoing federal criminal investigation the potential subjects of which we still dont know. not surprisin. we werent going to find that out today, but we still dont have a lot of information as to why this investigation is occurring. you and others have well laid out here the potential ramifications with respect to national security in these documents. i think theres sev...

0 from the company that powers more businesses than anyone else. call and start saving today. comcast business. powering possibilities. and good day. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. the affidavit the justice department used to win approval for the fbis search of mar-a-lago is being released at any moment by order of the justice department approving it by the federal judge magistrate on the case. much of it is likely to be redacted to conceal critical information about sources an...

Moving from just a people coming across the border to the worst part of this, i said this yesterday, if 10 get to try and brings footnote with them, it is not worth it. we have a mom talking about a child of an overdose. >> no mother wants to wake up and have to find child has been. my plea today is not just to parents, it is to the public. this is something that we need to do as a country. we have so much the dea is bringing in. all of these, you know, drugs that they are stopping, what about t...

Deputy national security to president obama, and edison bc political correspondent. he is the author of after the fall. andrew, your assessment of what we have learned in this hearing today about the possible release of the affidavit and what you expect a week from now. >> i think the judge made the right call here. i think the weakness in the governments position was that they only addressed the footnote, the issue of redaction. and they told the judge that their opinion, it redacted version of...

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