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The FBI interviewed former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and his former deputy Patrick Philbin earlier this year as part of the investigation into federal records taken to Donald Trumps

Pat Cipollone and Patrick Philbin, the White House counsel and his deputy under President Donald Trump, were interviewed by the FBI in connection with boxes of sensitive documents that were stored at Trump’s residence in Florida after he left office, three people familiar with the matter said.

According to sources, the Federal Bureau of Investigation interviewed Donald Trump’s former counsel and his deputy over sensitive documents.

With you for my presidential library. thats what a normal president made a mistake would do, and thats not donald trump. >> its also the case, that quote there brings in the wilson list of it. the motive to me, remains, i have to, say someone obscure. we just dont know what it -- >> this is five years old, these are my toys, hes a narcissist, he wants to have this stuff because its cool to have this stuff, he wants, to be able to show it off. he believes he owns everything. he owes the generals ...

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Section of the same building, that that material was then automatically declassified. on as the safe assumption that that is a lie that donald trump invented after the fbi search of his home, the people who can prove to the fbi that that is ally are the white house counsel and the white house deputy counsel who wouldve had to know about such a so-called standing order issued by the president because they wouldve had to enforce the order. donald trump did not know until today that his white house...

>> first, i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly. >> every outgoing president appoints people to be his representatives in dealing with the national archives to make sure that all presidential papers are properly in the possession of the national archives. pat cipollone and patrick philbin are to the people who donald trump officially put in charge of dealing with the national archives. when the nat...

Details on the affidavit are what allowed the fbi to secure that search warrant. and doj has laid it out. they said it could possibly derail their entire investigation if anything is unsealed from the affidavit, because it could reveal, you know, specific investigative techniques. they also say it could reveal highly sensitive information about witnesses. so, you can expect the doj will be arguing forcefully against the unsealing of the affidavit in court on thursday, especially because, don, we...

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Cipollone and patrick philbin being interviewed by the fbi, that is part of that narrative now. so pat cipollone, pat philbin, both working at the white house counsels office during the trump administration and then at the end afterwards when they left they became the liaisons for president trump to the national archives, handling the turnover of his presidential records. and any records he may have had. around the time that they were interviewed and others were being interviewed, we also know t...