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million dollars a day for at least two days following the fbi search. and hes continue to send out dozens of emails and text to supporters. and then theres our cnn exclusive tonight. 18 top trump administration officials saying, the claim from the former president and his allies that he had a so-called standing order to declassify any order he took from the oval office. they say, this is nonsense. >> he had a standing order, theres the wouldve been looking for. that the documents remov...

surprise decision from a federal judge in florida who asked the justice department to prepare a redacted version of the affidavit that led to the search warrant for donald trumps mar-a-lago estate. that decision marking more of a middle of the road approach than some expected with the judge saying, quote, very important for the public to have access to as much information as possible. joining us now from palm beach, florida, just outside of mar-a-lago and nbc news correspondent sam bro...

a busy day today the investigation of the former president and his allies. top of the list, and this is big, cnn learning right now that some members of the trump inner circle or trying to convince him to release surveillance video of fbi agents executing the search warrant at mar-a-lago, the search the turned up 11 sets of classified documents, some marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. now, we dont know what that surveillance video might show. a source t...

There is attorney client privilege. there is executive privilege. there is the privilege of eric holder asserted, delivered a process privilege. all of that has to be sorted out. i think i must mention a minute ago, there is no evidence based upon what is reported that the president, former president, specifically knew what was there. >> so, if trump is pushing this standing order when there are reasonable legal arguments that he can make, is it at his own expense? >> i dont understand that. wha...

Recommending or for a attorney general deciding to recommend an indictment against the -- against the former president. and talking about the 90-day rule before, one of the things that was disclosed early on is this was in the early stages of the investigation. so, nothing is going to happen for a long time. but they are reviewing -- neither side knows what they have in terms of the documents. so theyre doing a filter team. where the filter team, the government filter team is looking for privile...

Payment was not an issue. so that really was not anything right away. i was intrigued. my conversation was completely about legal issues. and there was some very interesting legal issues. and i think that the president, former president can have zealous advocacy by someone who will still be ethical, who wont go over the line. and i actually think that it is not as simple as george previously indicated. i mean, theres a play between the different statutes. the documents that were seized, neither ...

Help to determine for robert mueller who was behind they hacking and all of this? >> i think thats called crowd strike. subsidized by the dnc. but the mueller report is not into volumes is not like moses coming down with the two tablets. its something that can be challenged. its a one-sided document. like any prosecutors report for this investigation is showing the shortcomings, i think the mueller for congress to demonstrate the shortcoming and bias in the report. i have a prediction. the predi...

Interview your chief of staff. let me start with you. the president has every right, whatever your politicses, to have a small group of people. how do you make the case as a prosecutor that i have the right to this information? >> they have the right to deliver to process privilege. if the communications are about policy matters that the chief of staff is providing, the president, thats the base for the executive privilege. if its not that, its not easily established. evan said something interes...

Cia director john brennaned a made clear to the government officials by thursday that their testimony to the complete would probably contradict some statements the white house had made. so the white house responded as far as they were concerned her testimony would likely be in violation of the presidential communications privilege and delivery of process privilege. huh? in not so many words they were telling her she could not testify about anything she told the white house which is what she was ...

We learned from these documents that came out on march 28th, the trump administration tried to block her from testifying. the "washington post" broke this story when she was scheduled to testify before it got cancelled. yates and another witness former cidireor john brennahad made clear to the government officials by thursday that their testimony to the complete would probably contradict some statements the white house had made. so the white house responded as far as they were concerned her test...