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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 ...

Massive federal investigation, 2,800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 50 pen registers we learned today found no evidence of conspiracy by donald trump or anyone around him. that's oa huge deal, huge win for the president. on the obstruction question while he wasn't cleared, he's in the clear legally because the top law enforcement official in the land has decided not to bring a case -- a charge, leaving aside the president of whether the president can be indicted -- >> i'll stop you there, ken. just to make sure we're not moving too fast. you said leaving it aside, i'm not -- but he doesn't le...

Manafort was charged in this district, allegations again unrelated to the 2016 campaign or any collusion with the russian government and just in case that's not enough in this filing tonight from manafort's defense team, 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 colombia case includes no charges he collided with the russian government. footnote two, the special counsel strategy bringing charges against mr. manafort had nothing ...

Manafort's guilty plea in the district of columbia case includes no charges that he colluded with the russian government. footnote two. the special counsel's strategy in bringing charges against mr. manafort had nothing to do with the special counsel's core mandate, russian inclusion. and then, again, later on in the filing, your honor, let's come back to our main point. the prosecution in this case did not charge him with anything related to russian inclusicollu. and did we mention he was an altar bar who did no collusion. which is an even better way to do no collusion. this federal judge in ...