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information, which suggests officials believe trump knew he had classified documents and released allegedly intentionally did not return them. justice department prosecutors made the case for secrecy warning, quote, evidence might be destroyed. even saying the affidavit would provide a road map as well to the investigation. that does not appear to be resonating with the judge, who set in motion the possibility at least of releasing a redacted version of that affidavit, something that could happen as early as next week. and in a cnn exclusive report, some former trump allies are calling the president s claims that he had a standing order to declassify documents, quote, i ll paraphrase, bs. cnn watched out to 18 former top administration officials from the trump years and all of them told us they never heard of any such order, issued during their time, in the trump administration. but, first, a critical deadline for fulton county, georgia, prosecutors, just expired. they ....
They had until seconds ago to respond to senator lindsey graham s request to block records and testify before the grand jury there. nick valencia joins us from atlanta. graham said he thinks his actions in the wake of the 2020 elections were protected. how, exactly and what happens now? reporter: graham and his attorneys argue that he was protected by the u.s. constitution speech or debate clause and he was operating in a legislative capacity not a political one, when he made two calls to georgia secretary of state s office in the wake of the 2020 election. if you remember, he was then the chairman of the senate judiciary committee, so he says he was on a fact-finding call, but listen to how georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger interpreted that call. he spoke to wolf blitzer in an interview that year. asked if the ballots could be matched back to the voters and then he i got the sense that it implied that then you could throw those out, any look at the counties with th ....