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Little more forgiving. it is a vulnerability many have never imagined. the us justice department has made public some of the information which led the fbi to search donald trumps florida home. its published a redacted version of the sworn statement, or affidavit, outlining the evidence which the department produced to get a search warrant. these documents are normally kept sealed. the affidavid says there was probable cause to believe that there are additional documents with classified informati...

Phone and called the fbi, but that the justice department and the fbi had spent a significant amount of time building witnesses, working evidence before they even got in the door of mar-a-lago. >> which makes sense, right? think about this, jessica, because theres significant -- you dont have a probable cause finding, the judge will say, oh, former president, youve got one witness? great, bring the person in. >> and not only to peters point did doj do things by the book here, but they gave signi...

Thejustice department gave for this was because they thought that if the identity of the witnesses were made public, they can be open to harassment or even physical intimidation, and that future witnesses may be more reluctant to come forward if they see this kind of chilling effect. theres also the concern among the justice department that any revelations could lay out a roadmap for future obstruction of the investigation. now, donald trump has had a lot of legal concerns since hes left the whi...

Information, relating to the national defence, number one, through growth and negligence permits the same to be removed from his proper case of custody, were number two, having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody, and fails to make report of such laws, theft, obstruction, destruction, to superior officer, and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years or both. how does this relate to what we learned today? >> well, as bar...

That the information be protected. so even while the government was engaging in an investigation about obstruction and about mishandling of classified information, really from a national security equity perspective, the most important thing is to get those documents stored securely. so thats what that letter is about. >> understood. listen, so much to digest here. it was quite a day from this country. thank you all for walking us all through it. coming up next, well have more on the political ...

Boxes recovered back in january. the doj is concerned that more classified information remained behind before that search a couple of weeks ago. in addition, the affidavit refers to the other potential crimes cited in the search warrant, quoting again. there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. evidence of obstruction. much of the rest of the information is redacted, signaling how sensitive this information could be. remember, the justice ...

Residence. and it was probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found. but the affidavit with entire pages blacked out leaves many unanswered questions about the extraordinary search of the former presidents home, that sparked fears blow back from republicans and mr. trump, who today said, the judge should never have allowed the break-in of my home. and slammed the redacted affidavit as a public relation subterfuge by the fbi and doj, after arguing hed been turning over docu...

Possible be taking this well. and then after our journalists, im going to talk to our legal and investigative pros. theyre on this set right now. theyve got their copies of the affidavit. were going to see what they think of and what goes through their minds and how it went through their expert eyes, and how they look at a line like this one. "there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises." do they think there was enough probable cause? were g...

Bureau as you know faces growing threats. what can we now read among the many reductions, showing me much longer fears about just how supersecret the documents are supposed to be and how sloppily at best the government appears to believe they were handled by trump and his people once the papers got to mar-a- lago. that is at best. it also warns, theres also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. jessica snyder has been poring over the documents and ...

Really what is going on. >> shannon: one of the things we did see is on page 2 of the affidavit. it says theres probable cause to believe evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises, meaning mar-a-lago, jonathan. >> i dont really know what to make of it. maybe theres something in the affidavit that supports that, but it seems to me thats sort of part of reason they used to get the search warrant is to say, well, we need to get this now because theyll obstruct justice and destroy eviden...