it s now over a week after fbi agents descended on former president trump s florida home. new details are now emerging about the criminal investigation that prompted the search. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following all of these developments, including the high level witnesses who have now been questioned. reporter: tonight, new revelations that former president trump s two top white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house council pat cipollone and his deputy pat philbin were trump s designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. they could have insight about what was taken to mar-a-lago and why 11 sets of classified documents remained there until last monday, when fbi agents searched trump s palm beach home. the new details come as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing he ll hold a hearing thursday on whether to publicl
to release the affidavit for the search of former president trump s florida home. how damaging could it be to release the affidavit amid an ongoing investigation relating to these highly classified documents? well, i m not an attorney here, but it would seem to me this could be potentially extremely damaging, since it would lay out the evidence year basis for the action that s been taken so far, notefably the seah and seizure, perhaps identify witnesses and thereby intimidate future witnesses, and in the course of the revelations, perhaps compromise or expose what was in some of the documents. so for me as a layman, i can t see agreement to expose that affidavit. i think personally it would be as by mistake. the justice department itself is warning that releasing the