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Like this to back away, i than is a prediction and speculation and an educated one is that the former president is going to be prosecuted. >> wow. >> i dont see how you can not given this information and not just that its so clear that there is an active, thorough investigation and just how much was done here, but when you compare it to precedent, when you compare it to general petraeus which happened while i was at the bureau and what we are seeing is so much worse both in terms of the volume a...

And found 184 classified documents, 25 of them marked top secret, some of them with trumps handwriting scrawled across them, and they were jumbled up with old press cuttings and magazines and other records. thats why the fbi believe there might be more classified information being stored in properly at chums property. —— improperly. he has lashed out today and said this nothing more than a witch hunt against him but trump is facing some real legaljeopardy and not against him but trump is fac...

Facility for classified documents. and thats what caused archives. when they got those documents and realized there was more at mar-a-lago, thats what caused archives to get doj and the fbi involved. thats why this is a criminal matter. >> and we get a scope of the timeline of how long this had been going on, right, because you have the former presidents legal team saying basically you should have just asked us. we were cooperating. now we see how many attempts were actually made to do just that...

Through the 15 boxes and found extremely high levels of classified information here that could endanger the lives of human sources around the world potentially. despite that, they waited until august, just almost three weeks ago, several months after they started going through the boxes, finding this information, to execute the search warrant. even though trumps team is claiming its a witch hunt, they took their time and they did give deference to the former president. >> your thoughts on this i...

Paraphernalia as well as 25 items marked top secret that included human intelligence gathering, foreign surveillance and court ordered domestic surveillance. the justice department also relied on witness testimony as part of its request, but none of that witness testimony was made public. it was redacted and the reason thejustice department gave her this was because they thought that if the identity of they thought that if the identity of the witnesses were made public, they can be open to haras...

Overseas. >> reporter: the affidavit underscores the alarm about the possible vulnerability of trumps waterfront property. a secret service source tells cbs news it is a private club with protection but limited background checks. the affidavit goes on to provide a glimpse into the justice departments sources and who might have witnessed potential criminal activity at mar-a-lago, noting the department spoke to a ignificant number of civilian witnesses in order to protect them from intimidation or...

Monitored and oversaw the organization of these boxes. and to the obstruction of justice or the obstruction of evidence or the obstruction of an investigation standpoint he actually coordinated moving things in and out of locations at mar-a-lago as well as in and out of certain boxes. to renatos point this is the affidavit in support of a search warrant. theres an ongoing investigation. there could be numerous others that are charged not just donald trump as well as additional crimes that could ...

He knew what he had, that he purposely kind of bobbed and weaved not to give it and then finally, at least, someone in his camp lied outright about it. thats sort of three quarters of the way to obstruction, and so it now appears to be a very serious criminal investigation, which we couldnt have been sure of come august 8th. >> tracy, weve been talking all afternoon about damaging our intelligence community and damaging our human intelligence assets and our signal intelligence methods. you have ...

And it goes through categories, like witness information. so, andrew weissman, when they go through these categories they are explaining why you would not identify witnesses in a potential criminal case while youre still bringing new witnesses in and going through the documents that were finally turned over during the mar-a-lago search. am i correct? >> yeah, absolutely. and so i think it is commendable that the department and the court has done something that we did in the special counsel inves...

Original national security question of coordination of tactics and russia and obstructing the very probe looking at that question. >> well, there are those two pieces. i do think that one way to look at the obstruction might be simpler which is simply the statements that were made by the trump team to the national archives saying that they returned everything and theyre repeating that statement through counsel to the department of justice when we know for a fact that that was the very least inac...