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the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it ....
Quote, it s not theirs, it s mine. we know from the warrant and the receipt of what the fbi took from mar-a-lago that they did find highly classified, in fact, some with the most highly classified designation, at mar-a-lago. it s significant the two are involved in the doj probe into the mar-a-lago documents. this comes in addition to the fact that they have been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury, again doj investigation, about the january 6th attack. cipollone and philbin have also testified behind closed doors with the january 6th select committee. this is three separate places they ve appeared. and this development tonight about cipollone and philbin and mar-a-lago comes as the georgia investigation into trump s efforts to overturn the election is ramping up. today a judge there ruled trump team lawyer, jenna ellis, must appear before the fulton county ....