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good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, there are tapes. cnn learning that some trump allies are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of fbi agents searching his mar-a-lago home. we don't know what is on the tapes or not on the tapes. the footage has been held so close to the vest that a source close to the president tells cnn they're not sure if trump himself has even seen the whole thing. now, trump's son, eric, has been happy to talk about it, saying they're ready for the whole world to see the tapes. >> you still have the surveillance tape, is that corr...

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...

the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent's most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out wh...

Clinton. , so that's exactly what that strategy was. >> so, lucy, pivoting off of luke's point about the strategy. we had representative mike turner of ohio on fox this morning, saying the documents are a bookkeeping issue. okay, let's take a listen to that. >> in the affidavit itself, they cite the archivist, they don't cite the intelligence community, they don't cite the director of the cia, department of defense or even national intelligence as opining that these documents or the situation is a national security threat. they cite the archivist. the sounds more like a bookkeeping issue than ...

Affidavit, even absent the redactions, what's missing are some imminent national security threat that would justify raiding the president's home. the former president president trump's home was raided which is the most invasive manner in which the fbi could have gone about this. department of justice could have gone to court and trieded to have the subpoena that they had enforced by the court. instead, they chose to raid mar-a-lago. in the affidavit itself, they cite the archivists, not the intelligence community, direct or of cia, department of defense as to opining that these documents or th...