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more inside as to what led to the approval for that search warrant and the what the underlying basis for this criminal investigation is. abby, we've just hit noon. we're expecting more activity on the court's docket very shortly. we'll keep checking it and get back to you as soon as something is filed. >> jessica, stand by. we'll get back with you as soon as you have that document. joining me around the table is elliott williams and cnn legal and national security analyst carrie cordero. while everybody is hitting refresh right now, we have a moment where the judge in this case has s...

boxes retrieved from mar-a-lago in january. quoting page 8 here, the boxes contained newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous printouts, notes, presidential correspondence, presidential records, and quote, a lot of classified records. most significant heerkre, the concern that highly classified records were unfolded and intermixed with the other records, and otherwise inappropriately identified. let's go now to cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. investigators listed the kinds of classified documents they thought could still be on premise there at ...

ndi, meaning national defense information. >> let's get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? >> so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here's how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confid...

according to ken dilanian, that is a designation by a cia officer or possibly dia based on conversations with human source overseas, ie, a spy. there's also orcon originator control, noforn, as in cannot be shared with foreign nationals, fisa and si, signals intelligence, in order intercepts of communications. it also contains the marking fpotus, handwritten note, as in fots the former president of the united states is believed to have written after he left the presidency. and in a 13-page memo explaining why the d.o.j. made redactions, the government argues it needed to, quote, prot...

you can't get much detail out of this. and it was approved by a judge. which does tell us something. although not what is under the redaction. so we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president. the suspicion about criminal evidence. all of this is here in the ballpark. and if you've heard today or tonight, we know everything now and i could tell you, no we don't. we obviously have to be careful about what is redacted. we're learning new things. so i'm going to go through the facts with you right now. the road map here that has been r...