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Intelligence correspondent enter, ken delanian. she is also an nbc legal analyst. what more did trump's lawsuit tell us about the search and what led up to it? >> good morning, jose. trump laid out a number of facts that paint a picture of an extensive effort by the justice department to try to get these documents back before they took the step of on taning a search warrant. the trump team acknowledges they got a subpoena in may and the head of the counterintelligence section went down to mar-a-lago with three agents, met with trump lawyers and trump himself and took a look at the storage room...

We should point out republicans are still standing by trump. they are still vowing to pursue oversight and investigations into the department of justice if they win back the majority, but it is clear they are starting to calibrate their response after "the washington post" report donald trump might be in possession of highly sensitive documents. >> david laughlin led the u.s. justice department's counterintelligence section until 2018. he oversaw investigations into both hillary clinton's and former cia director david petraeus' handling of classified records. here's what he had to say about th...

Explains why we have these lawyers from the national security division including from the counterintelligence section that have been overseeing this. because there is this deep concern given the history of mar-a-lago and the lack of protocols for security there, that someone who, you know, a foreign adversary could somehow get to some of these things because of where they were being stored. >> i want to get to more on the substance in a second. but the lawyers have until 3:00 today. the justice department filed a motion saying, fine, if the president's going to go out and say what he's saying,...

Supporting documentation from the fbi search if you're someone's attorney? >> first of all, it's never done in federal practice. defense attorneys don't even see these warrants until it's almost the time of trial. and they make a motion to suppress. even then they may not get all of the supporting materials. prosecutors fight to keep these things out of the hands of the defense because you might have an informant who's working under cover, who's supplied some of the information. it could be an employee ad mar-a-lago who wants to remain out of this picture until the time of trial. and also you ...