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President, george w. bush, would call the cia periodically and say i want a briefing. people would show up on his doorstep in houston whenever he wanted, so if they want something, if they want to know something you give them access. again, president trump is unique. but if you want an answer whether theres a lujiimate reason to have that stuff there, give me another couple of months and ill still say no. >> phil, what about the argument that that stuff belongs to him? he has said he declassifie...

Their basis for probable cause? what were people afraid of? were they people who had a hand, who were fearful they might be accused? theres a lot of questions and i suspect its under these black lines well see. bradley moss, john wood, phil mudd, thank you so much. i want to go back to jessica schneider with the new information on another legal front in this investigation. jessica, whats going on. >> coming in just moments ago, we finally got that response from the trump team that had been direc...

Onto them? marshall cohen, thanks so much for walking us through that. lets pose that question now to phil mudd. hes here to sort through the details, former cia counter terrorism official. phil, is there a reasonable legal explanation that former president trump would be holding onto these documents? >> i dont think so. ive been asking the same question as you have, boris, which is why. ive got some ideas. i dont think theres a legal or intelligence explanation. first of all, its hard to imagin...

President trump or his allies would have for taking these documents from the white house and keeping them at mar-a-lago. from an intelligence perspective theres not -- its really unlikely theres going to be anything in here, anything juicy, you know, as phil and jim were saying, but it is the case that investigations are all about gathering bits of information, connecting the dots and trying to paint a picture. so while there may not be anything in there that the average person would look at and...

Searched because they were occupied by third parties. i think another outstanding question here is whether the government actually got everything back given this long series of efforts of obstruction on behalf of the former president. >> phil, help us understand the sensitivity of these top-secret documents that were intermixed with the newspaper articles and notes. we discussed hcs, human intelligence control systems that refers to actual foreign spies, but also documents noted no form, which m...

Bit of information in there. >> phil, i do think it is as we wait for this to come out at any moment, its worth taking a beat just to mark the fact that what youre about to have in your hands is going to have an affidavit justifying a search warrant for the home of a former president. >> yeah, and i think theres one additional point about this search warrant for a home, again, going back to the issue of intrusive means and extremely intrusive an investigation and that is whether theres any infor...

President if, indeed, it was. phil, kim, stay with us. we have more to discuss. pamela brown, thank you for the reporting. >> that was a triple penalty flag. >> handful of flags. former president trump along with his allies are reacting now to the release of this redacted affidavit with one ally telling cnn he really needs a competent defense attorney. more on this next. whats the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? its neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lin...

Had elections two days ago, you recently -- >> thats president biden there -- >> he was fairly dignifying the questions with answers. he was being sarcastic there because he finds all of this so absurd, the idea that a president can wave a magic wand and declassify whatever he wants. >> this standing order that former president trump said that was in place. but there was one element there that i think is relevant here, that -- let me come back to phil mudd on this situation. a reporter asked the...

Potentially a crime, a felony of obstruction of a legitimate investigation. >> you made some crucial points. well get into all of that in a moment. jessica schneider, thank you for the reporting. kim, phil, stay with us. well get into the potential for obstruction and this document says this does not expose all that they have found in their investigation. so what could happen next? well talk about that. much more on the affidavit including the reaction from trump allies. also, expect more in...

January. and then it took a subpoena in order to get them to turn over further classified documents to federal investigators when they visited mar-a-lago in june. so, theyre really leaning into this politically, trying to find a way to spin this in a way thats positive for the former president who has spent the past few weeks since the search at his home claiming that hes never been in a better position for 2024, and that republican enthusiasm is surging around him because of this targeting. >> ...