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tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president's home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi's fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here's cnn's justice correspondent, jessica schneider. >> startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. >> the top-secret stuff and compartment...

A little bit and what we saw today in the unredacted portions of the affidavit and the redacted parts would only have made it look worse for trump, what we saw in the unredacted portions is not just probable cause, but overwhelming evidence of three serious federal crimes, one of which was espionage. and in footnote two of the -- >> go ahead. >> of the affidavit on age 22, in footnote 2, the affidavit explains that all of this stuff about the president's declassifying the material is bogus. not only was there no standing declassification order, but the espionage law doesn't make anything turn ...

Manafort was charged in this district, allegations, again, that were unrelated to the 2016 campaign or to any collusion with the russian government. and just in case that's not emphatic enough in this filing tonight, both of those sentences i just read you, they both have footnotes, and the footnotes to those no collusion sentences also say no collusion. the first one says quote, mr. manafort's guilty plea in the district of columbia case includes no charges that he colluded with the russian government. footnote 2, the special counsel's strategy in bringing charges against mr. manafort had not...

What the senate intelligence committee source tells me is paul manafort and it talks about a request from russia to meet with mr. trump. the e-mail goes on to say that russia has been eager to meet trump for quite some time and has been reaching out to me to discuss and this footnote relates to that e-mail and it was forwarded to manafort to another campaign official which i'm told is gates who responds, let's discuss. we need someone to communicate to d.t., presumably d.t. is not doing these trips and it should be someone lower level to keep under wraps the kinds of communications they're tal...

Russian influence, into the election, and whether or not there was influence. so there was a continued investigation. the charges against him, again, indicate that he lied to investigators and they showed that there really was intent on the part of the russians and knowledge on the part of members of the campaign that there was russian intent to be involved with the campaign. so what his plea document demonstrates is that not only was he trying to set up meetings with russian government officials and trump campaign officials and that trump campaign officials knew about him and knew about it an...