return dozens of highly classified documents, this despite several requests over several months. the justice department also released its most visual piece of evidence and you re looking at it, that is a photo showing documents with the highest classification markings laid out there by the fbi, officials say those documents were recovered from a container that trump kept at his mar-a-lago home. since january, the u.s. government has recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. the justice department says three of those classified documents were not in boxes in that storage facility. they were actually found in former president trump s desk. so let s begin this morning with all of that news and this stunning filing from the doj, with our correspondent kara scannell. this is why doj needed 40 pages. they needed twice what the court said they could have because they had to apparently lay all of this out. yeah, good morning, jim and poppy. part of the objecti
fbi to search mar-a-lago. the wall street journal that an informant familiar with the documents that trump had told investigators that there were more of them , more classified documents. this informant told investigators this after the national archives had retrieved the 15 boxes earlier this summer. enter the informant, a significant development. justice department officials as cnn reported, had doubts that trump was being truthful. this comes is the head of the fbi was silent when pressed on trump s baseless accusations of fbi agents planting evidence. christopher wray dodged the question. as i m sure you can appreciate, that is not something that i can talk about so i refer you to the department. ray was trump s hand-picked director. within the justice department, a major debate on whether they should speak out to the public about the search on trump s home. cnn is learning that some justice department officials believe that they should release a public statement. i
it is heavily redacted to protect sources, potential witnesses, as well as the ongoing investigation of not just the president but also, quoting the document now, all potential criminal confederates. that said, there is much it does reveal, starting with what investigators believe they would find beyond the 15 boxes that were returned to the government in january. quoting again, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified ndi or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises. we should note ndi stands for national defense information. the affidavit goes on to provide a preliminary assessment of what was in the january material. quoting again, 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents marked as confidential, 92 documents marked as secret, 25 documents marked as top secret. 25 top secret documents. just to put that in perspective, i want to read y
outfront, obstruction. the affidavit the justice department used to obtain a search warrant for mar-a-lago. the affidavit, about 38 pages long. about half of it is redacted. blacked out. it is still shedding light on the criminal investigation including the probable cause that warranted the search. according to the doj, of the 15 boxes that trump handed over in january, 14 contained documents with classification markings. that included 67 which were marked confidential noorks marked secret, and 25 marked top secret. according to the fbi, of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfoldered, intermixed with other records and otherwise improperly identified. tell affidavit said the fbi believes trump s storage room residential suite, the 45 office, and other locations potentially held more national defense information. that s concerning because we ll show you where some of those rooms are in mar-a-lago. you can see in red is trump s suite. and you ca
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