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potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. there's also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, there's public interest involved here. cnn's jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? >> we don't know for sure, anderson, but it's possible that the doj may have given a little more than they originally thought they could. the judge ...

and president trump said he wasn't given any head's up that the search was happening. >> how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? >> i didn't have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. >> sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trump's attorneys. let's bring in a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> today the do...

Documents scandal involving donald trump. sources tell cnn that two people found additional classified documents in a trump storage facility in florida have now testified before a fwrand jury. federal prosecutors are pushing to look at files on the laptop of one mar-a-lago staff member, these are the latest sign of an aggressive approach by the special counsel. trump hasn't yet been charged with a crime. he is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act as well as potential obstruction of justice. president biden is also facing a special counsel investigation into his han...

As of last week. now, we have less than 60 days to the election. -- less than two months to the midterms where the department has long term standing practice of not taking public investigative steps in a politically sensitive case so close to election day. but here we are. the doj is not showing any signs of slowing down. today, nbc's own ken delaney asked the head of the justice department's criminal investigation if he could say anything to help the public better understand the flurry of investigative activity in the last week dealing with trump's associates. >> the attorney general will sha...

Consequences for those -- of earth are the result of a legitimate 2020 election victory. that investigation appears to be accelerating. -- according to -- investigators also stole self funds from trump advisers. look. federal agents -- boris epstein, an in-house counsel who helped to coordinate trump's legal effort and mike lowman, a campaign strategist who is the delay director of election day operations for the trump campaign in 2020. all of that is a big deal. the justice department is reportedly obtaining search warrants to seize cell phones of trump allies, featuring lots of subpoenas. as...