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So you can understand why prosecutors are suspicious. because when it comes to obstruction, you dont have to accomplish it, you just have to attempt it. >> a source told cnn at least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room. and so how do prosecutors separate coincidence from possible obstruction of evidence? >> yeah, you just look at all the evidence. you talk to them. when the prosecutors interviewed this in-madmaintenance worker, d he didnt know about what was i...

Possible obstruction. it comes amid signs the investigation could be winding down. >> reporter: the top federal prosecutor handling donald trump after he left the presidency, that prosecutor took a meeting on monday with a team of defense lawyers representing donald trump. they met at the justice department headquarters in washington, d.c., along with a career official from the justice department who sat down with trumps lawyers. this is the sort of meeting that appears to be coming at the final...

Documents, though, were moved around and if they were purposefully hidden. a source said that i.t. equipment in the room was not damaged in the flood but we are also learning that the maintenance worker who drained the pool was also involved in moving boxes of classified documents ahead of the fbi search last summer. cnns senior justice correspondent evan perez is following this story. evan, what more are you learning on this? >> reporter: well, you know, for prosecutors who have been following ...

Security for the trump organization, that would be in charge of monitoring the security cameras, have been asked whether investigators have all the footage, are there any gaps, have there been any efforts to withhold or prevent investigators from getting all of this. its one of a series of incidents that all speak to possible obstruction. >> so these things happen. they have to drain the pool at a resort every now and then. so i assume the trump people are saying what are you talking about. this...

>> the issue for the prosecutors is to hone in on this idea that there was obstruction, and as you know, that i have been looking at whether some of the workers there at mar-a-lago were moving boxes ahead of a visit by prosecutors to collect some of the documents. we know that they have had subpoenaed surveillance videos that were provided by the trump organization. this was in the early summer before the mar-a-lago search in early august, and came back asking for more surveillance and a preserv...

Again, that could happen, including any charges against the lower tier people who might have been involved with the obstruction track of this case as we are looking at sort of two tracks that jack smith has narrowed the mar-a-lago case down to which is the classification issues, did trump willfully, knowingly retain classified information and then the various pressure points of obstruction along the way. so i think i will be watching sort of these, you know -- these supporting actors and charact...

Administratively and what seems to be the evidence of deliberate obstruction, deliberate acts to conceal things from the justice department as it was investigating. this isnt like hillary clintons email server. this isnt like anything else you have read about. this is a deliberate, willful attempt to manipulate and conceal. i think it will be easier to prosecute, easier for the country to i can it in. >> its the line, its the construction, its the sort of thing if anybody else had done it they w...

Holmes and elliot williams. lets start with this bizarre. its a resort. donald trump lives a the a resort with a swimming pool. the pool is drained. waters flood into the server room and prosecutors get suspicious because they have had reason to be suspicious about moving documents. the same maintenance worker who drained the pool was part of another incident. >> an interesting story that raises serious questions about obstruction you have most of the facts correct. it flooded this area where fo...

Did anyone try to withhold footage? we know from our reporting that some witnesses going before the grand jury, including the trump organizations head of security have been asked about this very issue which is why, this may sound silly, it takes on a really serious tone when you think about it in the context of possible obstruction. >> especially because it was the same person only security footage. i think thats something that makes them pay more attention. youre expecting there will be a witne...

Florida. so it seems to me that jack smith has had this greatly in hand. all the individuals who might be participants in this, who might be witnesses, youll remember trumps lawyers belly aching about how almost every single employee of mar-a-lago had been deposed by jack smith. well, it turns out that kind of proved important for possible other evidence of obstruction. it turns out that may have been important in revealing after a subpoena, after it wasnt complied with in june, after an unannou...