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day s worth of speculation and partisan conspiracy theories and warnings of violence. let s go to our reporter, cnn s pamela brown and kaitlan collins. kaitlan, what more are you learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, couldn t get kaitlan yet. pamela, you ve been reporting on what triggered this search, namely concerns about what the former president and had not already turned over to the federal government, the questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you know? reporter: remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year, and in june the fbi met with some of donald trump s representatives at mar-a-lago, saw the room where some of these additional documents were being held, sent a letter after saying it should be padlocked. the bottom line is i m told through a source familiar is that the fbi believed that donald trump and his representatives hadn t ....
learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, can t get kaitlin yet. pamela, you ve been reporting on what triggered this search, mainly concerns about what the former president had and had not already turned over to the federal government. questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you have? remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year. in june, the fbi met with some of donald trump s representatives at mar-a-lago, saw the room where some of these additional documents were being held, sent a letter after saying it should be padlocked. the bottom line, i m told through a source familiar, is the fbi believed donald trump and his representatives had not turned over everything it should have or it was required to that belong to the government. we know previously, the national archives had taken 15 boxes from mar-a-lago including classified information. in ....
This, with the levels of review and the likely level of a garland review, i imagine that every i has been dotted and t crossed. you would think that merrick garland himself would have looked at the application for the search warrant? not only do i think that just because it s the president involved, but from my understanding when people are working for garland and from what i know of him, he s a micromanager. i mean some of the frustration with the pace of investigations are precisely because he s a micromanager. so it would be inconceivable that he didn t sign off on this search warrant, this affidavit, and this decision. and how strong a case would have had to be made to this judge in order to get the judge to agree? well, the judge is just making the judge has to understand that they re investigating a crime, right? it s not just ordinary misconduct. here, the likely crime is violation of the presidential ....
To show and describe the place to be searched, and the evidence to be seized. and the code word in the law is, with particularity. they can t say, something wrong is going on at mar-a-lago, i want to go in. they have to describe what the crimes are that they think have taken place, and they have to describe that the crimes have taken place there. they have to describe what they are searching for and the place to be searched and the things to be seized with some specificity. now, a judge relies on what the agents tell them. as we have seen in the breonna taylor case, agents may not necessarily be telling the truth. but frankly in a case like this, at the levels of review, and the likely level of a garland review, i mentioned it every eye has been dotted and t s crossed. you would think that merrick garland would have looked at the application for the search ....