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Aware it was under the espionage act. today, we found out that they were investigating him for willful retention of national defence information, concealment or removal of government records and obstruction from the federal investigation. chi chi izundu there, a washington correspondent. lets take a look at some other stories in the headlines. a long—serving senior executive for donald trumps family business has admitted conspiring with the company in a 15—year tax fraud. allen weisselberg, ...

And so now having laid it all out and more in an affidavit to have the risk that everything that theyre doing become public is really -- you know, must be very troubling to them. so im withholding judgment until i see whether their redre redactions really leave anything of substance for the public to look at. also bear in mind theres an appeal to the judge, this is a magistrate judges decision and theres an appeal to the judge. so i wouldnt hold my breath about seeing this any time soon. >> carr...

Is investigating. us media organisations have argued that the affidavit, the document used to justify the search at mar—a—lago, should be unsealed because of the huge level of public interest in the case. the judge agreed, but he wants the justice department to identify any sections it believes should remain confidential. i feel good about todays hearing. judge reinhart seems to have a very good sense that it is his job as the gate keeper in this case to perform his function of balancing the...

Obstruction. after all, we found probable cause of obstruction, this affidavit is a road map so anything that could allow more obstruction has to be redacted. obviously classified information is going to have to come out. but i well see when it comes out, i think that still leaves a lot and that is also going to be very challenging for the former president because this is the governments side of the story only. probable cause that crimes, three crimes have been committed. so even in redacted for...

Has been released although it confirms that donald trump is under investigation for the wilful retention of national defence information. the concealment or removal of government records. and the obstruction of a federal investigation. government officials say the affidavit should stay out of public view on the grounds that it could compromise their work and possibly deter witnesses from cooperating with this and other investigations. i cooperating with this and other investigations.— investig...

>> first, jim sciutto, thank you for having me this morning. and, yes, it would be a very strong fear, motivating the actions that law enforcement took in this case. you need to look at the history and discover that there were efforts made to have mr. trump turn over the documents voluntarily and there has been some dissertation regarding that and when that was not promptly complied with, the fear that evidence would be destroyed, could be destroyed, is great. >> yeah. elie honig, you have three...

It we havent seen it. it has been under seal. so, i dont know. i cannot say. >> trump, who has been in thousands of lawsuits, who is known to fight and fight back, is going to sit back and see how this thing goes. the judge did release additional documents that were part of the search warrant that was made public last week. these noted that the search was related to, quote, willful retention of national defense information, concealment of government records, and obstruction. the mar-a-lago searc...

Would be the target of investigation, no one has been charged here. but that is a little bit more information we can glean. and then the other thing that happened in court yesterday in these newly unsealed records is that the justice department has made very clear they do have a -- quite a fear of obstruction around this, that they wanted to make sure that evidence wasnt destroyed, thats one of the reasons they kept the search quiet beforehand and so we learned that from this. we also heard that...

Unsealed because of the huge level of public interest in the case. the judge agreed, but he wants the justice department to identify any sections it believes should remain confidential. i feel good about todays hearing. judge reinhart seems to have a very good sense that it is his job as the gate keeper in this case to perform his function of balancing the interest in the public of accessing these materials against the interest in the government in keeping them secret. bit by bit, the full exten...

Details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, its key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that its that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released...