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Hello, everyone. good morning. and a warm welcome to your "new day." it is saturday, august 27th. hello there boris. >> good morning, amara. great to be with you as always. up first, we start with donald trump renewing his call for a special master to review documents from the search of his mar-a-lago residence. trump filed a response last night to a judges request for more information but he did not explain what local a special master would play, as for the affidavit, authorizing the search of ...

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Camera footage, people may have had smart doorbell footage that could help them in their investigation. among the tributes here, we have seen at the football community coming together. tributes have been left from liverpool football club, everton football club. i former liverpool captain steven gerrard said yesterday as well that he felt personally devastated by her death, and i think that really echoes how a lot of people will be feeling around here still, so a huge impact here on the community...

Donald trumps mar-a-lago home. in it, shocking new details. the fbi telling a judge that there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contained classified ndi or the presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises. there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. the affidavit also revealing startling details about improperly handled documents that were marked with the highest l...

Function designed for those under him in the executive branch. is that true? >> exactly right. two things at play. is it that executive power including classification, he was elected by the people and pretty obvious statutes that do not include the president in classification crimes for example. includes lower officers, contractors but the president of the united states for the most part, that is why possibly the department of justice mentioned obstruction in this affidavit. there is no committa...

Alert, blackout pages of the affidavit used to search mar-a-lago have been released. will: some details we knew but also a whole lot more questions. kevin is live in washington with more. >> reporter: a lot of questions. lets be clear, last night we said with good reason that the affidavit would be heavily redacted and present uncorroborated allegations presented in such a way as to frame the argument the former president was up to something by having those documents at mar-a-lago and we got a l...

Obstruction of justice that may have been committed by the former president with these documents? so we dont know to whom hes shown these, we dont know whether hes talked to other people about them. i imagine that they were souvenirs for him, that he wanted to have evidence of his time in the white house. he just threw some of this stuff in with his news clippings where are among his most prized possessions. so maybe it was as simple as that. but i certainly dont trust him any more than hes enco...

What they said to the judge is that there might be more. basically they said they believe theres probable cause there was classified materials still at mar-a-lago, probable cause that presidential records could be at mar-a-lago. and those presidential records, by the way, are owned by the u.s. government. theyre not owned by donald trump, and they also said the fbi affidavit that they believed there was probable cause of evidence of obstruction at mar-a-lago. fred, we looked through the whole af...

But this was big news today when we learned that the director of the national intelligence will be initiating this review. >> harry, there was a lot of news that we had to process that has happened basically as we have been on the air. but i want to go back to a fire piece you wrote in the l.a. times, you wrote, quote, it seems quite likely that the doj could establish beyond a reasonable doubt that trump left the white house knowing he was carting away and massive cachet of highly classified do...

>> it also reminded me of the january six committees hearings when they said witness tamperings may have happened with particular, from people from trumps orbit. >> we saw during the january six committee hearings -- >> she says that person had received a phone call from donald trump -- people in that orbit are still in touch with each other, whether that amounts to witness intimidation is another matter, but certainly the justice department has the right to be concerned about that. >> barbara l...