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>> a fiction you called it. >> yeah. look. its -- if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. id love to see what gets produced. >> and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box l...

at this stage. >> reporter: right. well, it would be rare to make a search warrant affidavit public, but we are at a point where there is a push for transparency, not just on capitol hill, but the media, including cnn. in court the justice department made a set of arguments and really a couple little details about this investigation that theyre saying should keep this affidavit secret, confidential, only for their eyes and for the judges eyes. in their filing yesterday, they wrote if d...

home. "the wall street journal" reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organizat...

today wyoming voters decide if that will cost liz cheney her seat in congress. we begin with important developments in several different investigations involving donald trump. first, a new court filing details the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the justice department asserting the affidavit it filed must be kept secret for now because it implicates highly classified material and because doj says its publication right now would damage the investigation. separately, a dramatic turn in the g...

affidavit could compromise the ongoing criminal investigation. its been eight days since that unprecedented fbi action and we know that doj filter teams have combed through at least some of the contents retrieved from trumps home. we know this because doj returned trumps passports, three of them, in fact, that were found among the materials that were taken away by the fbi. weve been tracking all of this for the past week. katelyn, what can we expect to happen at this hearing on thursda...

he says his agency doesnt share information about ongoing matters. >> lets get right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this tension between the lawmakers and the inspector general has been going on for a while, but it seems to be escalating. >> its an ongoing battle. were seeing this escalation, between two top democrats, bennie thompson, carolyn maloney, with the dhs ig and now theyre cuesiaccusing the ig of obstruction. is this goes back to the claim that the ig failed ...

country. i believe in the very soul of this nation. and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe it in my core, there isnt a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. just remember who we are. we are the united states of america. theres nothing beyond -- nothing beyond our capacity. thats why so many foreign companies decided to invest making chips in america. billions of dollars. were the best. we have to believe in ourselves again. and now i...

that releasing their full reasons for searching mar-a-lago would cause, and i quote, significant and irreparable damage. the justice department now urging a judge not to unseal the affidavit that justified the fbi search over the mar-a-lago home. a document, according to the d.o.j., that serves as a road map to the ongoing investigation including who federal investigators are talking to. saying that it includes, and i want to quote this one, highly sensitive information about witnesses...

them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at...

what if the main goal of all of this was just to get that stuff out of mar-a-lago? >> well, i think thats a question thats on everybodys mind and certainly from where the justice department sits, this was -- these are -- these were top secret, classified documents, some of the nations most, you know, privileged, sort of secrets about national security and military matters and the justice departments top priority in this case was just getting those back. and its sort of an open question...