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top of the hour on cnn newsroom, victor blackwell, 3:00 p.m. deadline has now hit and we are waiting to see whether donald trumps attorneys have contested the release of the search warrant on his mar-a-lago estate, executed on monday. the former president said he encourages the request by the justice department to unseal the warrant, as well as a property receipt of what was taken. its still not clear what his attorneys will do. were learning more much from the "wall street journal." i...

If that is what is alleged, would we find that in the affidavit and necessarily not here if thats specifically why thats relevant? >> definitely not going to find it in what is going to be unsealed today. potentially, you might have hints about it in the affidavit, which again, could be a very lengthy document which we will not see unless there is an indictment at some point in the future, laying out all of the investigative steps that the doj and fbi took prior to submitting the warrant for sig...

When were talking about a set of classified documents, could a set be something as simple as a folder or as much as a box. help us understand quantity here? >> well, victor, i dont know who came up with the sets of documents. i dont think that that was -- and so it could be two documents. it could be a pair of documents from the presidential daily brief. it could be another more thorough document that came from a particular intelligence organ organization. its varied. theres no way to determine ...

Information, but this is the really important part, with the intent or reason to believe or reckless of the likelihood that that information could be used to injure the national interests of the united states. thats the first one. the second one is obstruction, essentially its obstruction of justice, destroying, moving, concealing a document in order to interfere with some sort of ongoing investigation. and the third one is destruction of a federal document. a couple of really important things t...

Because the president tweets it or says it doesnt make it so. theres a prose that needs to be in order issued by the white house counsels officer. even during the trump presidency, you know, it didnt make it so. thats one of the things that by pursuing this search warrant under these three laws that dont turn on classification, you know, you see where the justice department is going with this. >> lets go to sara murray now. these documents have been unsealed. you have them. what do they say. >> ...

Confirmation that this goes far beyond a mere violation of the presidential records act, which really is a toothless act in and of itself. it doesnt have an enforcement mechanism. these are heavy hitting criminal statutes, espionage, obstruction of justice, as was noted, the maximum prison sentence for just one of these crimes is 20 years in prison, so this is a very big deal, and just more confirmation of what, you know, we knew all along which is that, you know, merrick garland wouldnt have ta...

For roger stone jr., and as we talked about earlier, various classified top secret documents on here, so there is about i think 33 items in this list of things they took when they searched mar-a-lago. we also have the actual search warrant here, and all of these documents are signed by christina bobb, and i think what you were just talking about, it laying out the various statutes of the potential crimes they believe could have occurred, the reasons they were there to investigate. >> elie, the d...

Was their only option. its obviously former president trump is going to say that but i think pretty clearly based on the reporting weve heard and what merrick garland has said, its just not the case. >> eli,e, what are you learning about from this "wall street journal" reporting, what does it tell you about the breadth of the search. >> the justice department and fbi requested permission to search quite broadly in mar-a-lago. it says any of the office areas of mar-a-lago, not the private residen...

But then we go to item 5. binder of photos, 6, binder of photos, or box labeled a 1 a, if there are no details describing what it is, is it appropriate to conclude that that is classified information if they had details that are unclassified or declassified, that they would have listed them here? >> i think its both, victor, to be honest with you. i think the box could have other information in it or it could be unclassified. to your point earlier, theyre not going to list out the top secret sci...

Certainly in your beef, seen and covered these documents before in other cases. i dont want to lose the forest for the trees here. im holding a search warrant for the home of a former president of the united states. >> right, exactly. >> and items that were taken as part of a search. when you see this document, in whole and in specific, what stands out? >> well, look, i think its astonishing. i think its really important what you just said, which is to just pause and think again what were talkin...