what the government could see on the surveillance footage they ve got from mar-a-lago. there s details we didn t have before, like how the cameras were motion activated. really, it s where the cameras could not see that sticks out. on july 6th of last, year the trump organization provided the fbi with a hard drive, containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallway, leading to the storage room, where trump had been keeping this classified documents. that s a pivotal part of how the justice department knew documents were being moved in and out of that storage room. those cameras did not capture what was happening upstairs at mar-a-lago. which is what makes this interesting. this is from that same affidavit from august of last year. quote, the investigation has established that other boxes were moved from the storage room to other locations in the premises, including the former president of the united states presidential suite and pin
un-redacted affidavit the government used to get a search warrant for trump s mar-a-lago club last year. full disclosure nbc news is part of a group of organizations that sued to get this affidavit un-redacted, and now it is out. it is not totally un-redacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can. again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately was this, the newly un-redacted sections of the affidavit give us a much better understanding of what the government could see on the surveillance footage it got from mar-a-lago. there s fun details we didn t have before like how the cameras were motion activated. but really it s what the cameras couldn t see that sticks out. on july 6th of last year the trump organization provided the fbi with the hard drive containing the footage of four cameras. all four of those cameras were in the basement hallw
had been keeping these classified documents. now, that s a pivotal part of how the justice department knew documents were being moved in and out of that storage room. but those cameras did not capture what was happening upstairs at mar-a-lago which is interesting. this is from that same affidavit from august of last year. quote, the investigation has established that other boxes were moved from the storage room to other locations in the premises including the former president of the united states s residential suite in pine hall. how if the video cameras were only capturing what was happening in the basement, how did the government know the exact rooms where these documents were brought upstairs inthere are two big potential options. number one, the government may have intercepted communication, may have a text or e-mail from inside trump s orbit they obtained that told them where these documents were brought. or option number two, they might have had a human source, someone on the ins