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The investigation. they said so last week. thats again a feature of this unusual characteristic that they had to go in to get the documents even though it was a relatively young investigation. now we can expect perhaps trump to file more kind of crazy motions. he has to justify one that he did last -- on monday today. and otherwise the department continues to pursue its investigation but quietly and make a decision whether to bring charges. i do want to second the point just made that although w...

Look at this and say, they believe that there was more. we know the types of boxes they pulled out, and on top of that, they thought there was evidence of obstruction. clearly theyre building up to something, but what specifically that is and who specifically could be ultimately responsible or liable from a criminal standpoint is just something that we dont know from these documents and its not something that weve been able to report out yet. >> chuck, weve covered a lot of ground already, but w...

And that is the reason why they needed to go back in there. and that is what they outlined to the judge. unfortunately, there are several pages here that are pretty redacted as to why they believed that there were still items there they needed to go and get. but they do outline that they needed to go back and search many of the spaces that donald trump would have been in after january -- up until august this year. >> thanks, katelyn for that. evan perez is still with us. the affidavit says feder...

On the premises. what do you make of that? >> yeah, and not just evidence of obstruction in a boiler plate way, bianna, but in both the filings the court ties it directly -- excuse me, the doj ties it directly to what they have learned so far. so we are talking about the former president of the united states actually harassing witnesses, bringing them into danger and the like. to elies point, which i agree with, remember its a year, a full year until they find this and then they look, this is in...

Fbi officials as well? >> yeah, i think they have done as much as they legally could. if i were the agent trying to protect sources, i would be very happy with this outcome. i think just tailing on what was just said is one of the things thats interesting to me is almost the last part of this document. it talks about the destruction or concealment of information, of classified information. theres your obstruction right there. it could come down to the fact that the possession might not be the bi...

>> the affidavit speaks of a june letter coming from, it was doj counsel, sent to trump that said this in part. we ask that the room where the documents had been stored be secured. and that all the boxes that were moved from the white house to mar-a-lago be preserved in that room, in their current condition, until further notice. we also know from the affidavit. the fbi was focused on donald trumps office. the way he put it, his residential suite. in addition to the storage room. what does that ...

You talk about, legally speaking, a knife at the throat of the ex-president. explain. >> well, so, you know, when this first started, and brandon really underscored it, there was an -- it was an absolutely exigent operation to return documents. we didnt know what kind of criminal possibilities it would present. we now do. all these documents, by the way, were signed to underscore the point by both the u.s. attorney and the southern district of florida and the head of counterintelligence, some of...

0 from the company that powers more businesses than anyone else. call and start saving today. comcast business. powering possibilities. and good day. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. the affidavit the justice department used to win approval for the fbis search of mar-a-lago is being released at any moment by order of the justice department approving it by the federal judge magistrate on the case. much of it is likely to be redacted to conceal critical information about sources an...

Another judge said bill barr already decided that there was going to be no prosecution of the former president for obstruction despite the fact that robert muellers report found multiple instances where possibly he could be charged with obstruction and left it up to the attorney general to make that decision. if you remember there was this case where don mcgahn was being told to fire the form -- to try to find a way to fire the special counsel. trump tried to get him to deny that. this was analy...

They were trying to find a way not to charge him and that ultimately meant they took -- they made arguments they never made in another case. >> let me ask you there, what is the history for public officials charged with and convicted of obstruction of justice in the past, has there typically been an underlying crime? thats another argument in this memo, right, there was obstruction, but there wasnt enough there there evidence of a crime behind that. >> yeah, thats nonsense, by the way. really do...