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house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they're also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. >> they've, you've been talking to local law enforcement about this. i'm wondering what you're learning down there in florida. >> you know...

telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? >> part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald trump's orbit was that his attorneys were engaging on this issue, this notion that he took document...

three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. a total of 11 sets of classified records. three laws are also listed as a legal basis for the warrant. one is part of the espionage act. and while that has a lot of people jumping to conclusions and conjuring up visions of spies, it is important to note the espionage act encompasses a lot more than just that. it makes it a crime to remove or misuse information related to national defence. also listed, a law forbidding hiding or destroying classified material, and another makes it illegal to destroy or falsify ev...

The classify ended and for example there are some suggestions, i think asha patel, that he may have verbally declassified documents that he took with him. but there is more to declassifying tender saying, i hereby declassify, you actually have to change the markings on the documents. there's kind of paperwork that have to be done to ensure that the documents that you've declassified are now marked accordingly as classified documents. and so, the government will be able to tell, as they reviewed these documents, whether or not they have been properly declassified just by looking at them, honest...

And sent 'em to mar-a-lago? it is a good question but if he did, there needs to be some record of that as well. it is not just wave the magic wand and say i hereby declassify. somebody has to make a record of that, and record those documents and officially, you know, put them in some sort of release form. so, yeah, there is definitely some digging that will have to go on here, either by the inspector general for the national archives or potentially by justice department investigators. >> you can't -- remember, they said you couldn't indict or a sitting president couldn't go to jail, elie. i me...