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it is heavily redacted to protect sources, potential witnesses, as well as the ongoing investigation of not just the president but also, quoting the document now, all potential criminal confederates. that said, there is much it does reveal, starting with what investigators believe they would find beyond the 15 boxes that were returned to the government in january. quoting again, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified ndi or that are preside...

good friday evening to you. jim sciutto here sitting in for anderson. tonight making sense of the unprecedented look weve just gotten into what until now was almost unimaginable, the criminal investigation of a former president. it follows the equally unprecedented court-approved search of a former presidents home. today under orders from the same federal judge who approved that search warrant, the justice department released the affidavit backing the warrant. the document laying out t...

decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trumps lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. >> in their response, trumps lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trumps lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say th...

florida in just a moment. plus a new subpoena from the department of justice, this one to the national archives for white house documents it turned over to the january 6 committee. meanwhile, in georgia, rudy giuliani testified for over six hours over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now georgias governor is seeking to delay his own testimony which was scheduled for today. willie. >> lets begin this hour in the state of florida. where at 1:00 p.m. a federal judge will hear ar...

but he would use them as is right as president. but to draw direct line from that to the documents ending up in the basement of mar-a-lago doesnt and sit well with me because i know for a fact that most of the documents he saw where that were classified, or higher than that, was electronic not in paper. the trump spokesperson says the materials have been declassified. so far no one has shown those declassification processes meanwhile on capitol hill, after bidens signature legislation ...

Had already stopped the Trip Planning by that point. And when did that happen . Stopping the Trip Planning . Yeah. On may 13th. Okay. And how did you hear about that . I was called by a colleague in the the Vice President s chief of staffs office and told to stop the Trip Planning. Okay. And as i understand it, it was the assistant to the chief of staff . Thats correct. Okay. And so you didnt hear about it from general kellogg or the chief of staff or the president or the Vice President , you he...

Lawyers and this custodian that everything was turned over turned out to be false. that can be viewed as obstruction of a governmental investigation. very serious crime under federal law. >> david, the consistent argument by trump has been, i declassified these in a sweeping manner before i left office. but his lawyers didnt argue that in this filing. i wonder how significant that is. >> the lawyers didnt argue that, and they said in the most recent motion that will be discussed today, that we w...

But we look to it as being generally classified. so, the espionage act absolutely has an application so far from what weve seen to the facts, obviously we have to wait and see. it is also very statutory derived in the sense that the level of harm as i said earlier, exceptionally grave for top secret information, it is written right into the executive order of which the statute applies when the courts would look at these types of determinations. but, again, were still in somewhat of an early stag...

>> so one of them, you may have met. it was mr. david holmes. and the other was i dont know -- i mean, i guess i could -- its another foreign service officer, keith bean. >> we met mr. holmes last friday evening. >> i understand. >> delightful fellow. >> and you said when you returned to the united states, you papered it up, given -- you know, with sci clearance, wherever a foreign government makes an overture like that, you paper it up and tell your chain of command? >> i did. but i also dont k...

Offer was made? >> who were they? bun one of them you may have met, it was mr. david holmes. i dont know, i guess its another foreign service officer, keith bean. >> okay. we met mr. holmes last friday evening. >> i understand. >> delightful. >> and you said when you returned to the united states, you papered it up given your -- you know, with sci clearance whenever a foreign government makes an overture like that, you paper it up and you tell your chain of command? >> i did, but i also dont kno...