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search played out in a florida courtroom today, the same fbi search that approved the warrant to look for those classified and top secret documents opened to the door to the possibility that portions of the affidavit could be made public as soon as next week. first, hes giving prosecutors the opportunity to propose redactions and explain why each piece of information should be kept from the public. the justice department says all of it needs to remain sealed. they say releasing it coul...

Can you give the man a break either by his lawyers, relatives, friends . You take that into consideration. That doesnt determine not Going Forward with it. You heard that, right . Giuliani clearly saying last month the president asked comey to give flynn a break. Today claiming the president never said such a thing. Lets go live to cnn White House Correspondent Boris Sanchez in new jersey where the president is spending the weekend. How is the legal team explaining this reversal . Reporter Rudy ...

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He got college, a condo. >> five month in jail is worth it? >> everyone would want those employment benefits. i dont know that i would consider -- as george said, we dont know everything that the d.a. was looking at. i wouldnt consider it necessarily a win until you actually got him to turn against his own boss. but clearly they evaluate. they say, this is the best were going to get. and they took it. >> jim, now to the trump organization. so, the trump organization, as we understand it, made $2...

Didnt want to release something. now, the redactions may be such that at the end of the day -- and there should be some, right? we need to protect witnesses. we need -- this is, as the doj lawyer said, just the early stages of an ongoing investigation. so, you want to protect all that. but if we can see anything, i think that just helps dispel some of the things that trump and his allies are throwing out there. >> speaking of trump and his allies, jim, one of the questions is, what did he want t...

The concealment or removal of government records and obstruction of a federal investigation. prosecutors also argued that they needed to keep the paperwork secret before last mondays search because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. cnn also has new exclusive reporting involving donald trumps evolving defense. youll remember that the former president claimed he had some kiechbd standing order to declassify whatever documents he took o...

>> but he literally said a year ago, ive made up my mind. probably a month ago, he said, the only decision is before the midterms or after. he introduces himself as the 45th and the 47th president. this guy, we know hes running for president. and you know we have to start following the rules of contribution limits once youve made up your mind. and thats why were suing him. and i think at the end of the day, hopefully a federal election commission does what it should. >> i didnt know he introduce...

Gentlemen, thank you so much for being here. jamie gann yell reports there were 18, as we just said, former trump officials, all of whom have said theyve never heard of any such blanket standing order given at the time to declassify documents. so, some of them, like mick mulvaney says he was not aware of it. john kelly, trumps former chief of staff, says nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given. and another official says, where is the order with his signature on it. jim, you were...

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We are watching the facts develop. ultimately this is part of the reason that the legal team does not want president trump to testify before robert mueller. they believe that the special counsel is trying to set a perjury trap by asking questions about what the president said to former fbi director james comey and why the president fired him. >> boris sanchez, thank you. joining us now cnn legal commentator jim shulz and cnn legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. so does giulianis explanat...