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justice department says it's trying to protect in its investigation of documents taken from donald trump's home at mar-a-lago. in a way, these are the most expansive comments yet from the justice department and they come in a court filing opposing the release of the affidavit that lays out the case for searching mar-a-lago. now, senators on both members of the intelligence committee and media companies including cnn are pushing to see that information. new reporting this morning from the "wall street journal" revealed attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks before ap...

document comes out, it will change everything that we know about the search of mar-a-lago. now, there are three relevant documents here, the first two, the search warrant and the property received, those are out in the public. we've seen those. just for the sake of comparison, the search warrant that is three pages. it's mostly a form you fill out it tells us where the fbi wanted to search and the criminal laws the doj is looking at. it the property seized. that's also three pages. most of those entries just say "box of documents." but the affidavit, the affidavit is a game-changer. ...

>> a fiction you called it. >> yeah. look. it's -- if he has declassified hundreds, maybe thousands of documents that he took to the residence because he worked very hard on this at night as we all know, over four years, the media should be filing freedom of information act requests for all documents declassified by donald trump pursuant to this standing order. i'd love to see what gets produced. >> and we know from seeing the receipt of items taken from mar-a-lago that there was a box labeled as sci, sensitive compartmented information. can you think of any reason a former president...

at this stage. >> reporter: right. well, it would be rare to make a search warrant affidavit public, but we are at a point where there is a push for transparency, not just on capitol hill, but the media, including cnn. in court the justice department made a set of arguments and really a couple little details about this investigation that they're saying should keep this affidavit secret, confidential, only for their eyes and for the judge's eyes. in their filing yesterday, they wrote if disclosed, the affidavit would serve as a road map to the government's ongoing investigation, provi...

home. "the wall street journal" reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty in a tax evasion case. let's get to it, let's ...