investigation the fbi says that they re still developing. they don t know everything at this point. so we re really at the beginning of this investigation. still a lot of unknowns. there s still a lot learned today. gl to see you. outfront with me now, the co-ed or the in chief of just security and former special counsel at the defense department. kaitlan collins, and john dean, former nixon white house counsel. brian, the justice department, the way it is put in here say it is a lot of classified records found at mar-a-lago. that s definitely true. the breakdown again of the 184 classified documents included 67 confidential, 92 secret, and 25 top secret. when you saw those numbers, what did you think? i thought it was very alarming. to have the number attached to the acronyms, it is very alarming.
incredibly serious. but as we come to understand in this cup, it s not just the crime, it s also the cover-up. and sometimes that get you in more trouble than the underlying crime or investigation of that crime. and it just seems to me in reading the affidavit, even the parts that are unredacted, something happened or a number of things happened along the way with the fbi and the department of justice, on the one hand, trump and his people on the other hand. and it was so significant that they engaged in something they didn t want to do. there was a long period, it seems, of accommodation and sensitivity and pacer on the part of the government, but something happened that was obstructive. and when that happens on an ongoing basis, it can t be tolerated. and we ve been through something perhaps not to this degree, but something that did raise similar questions, the
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to donald trump in a way that will make it impossible for merrick garland not to seek an indictment. because unlike the complicated issues involved in the attempted coup and the insurrection, where trump did his very best to keep he has fingerprints off of the actual manipulation of the electoral slates and all the rest, here, not only his fingerprints, but his distinctive handwriting is on the top-secret documents. you can t say that he didn t know that they were there. he s been bragging that they belong to him. and the department has no joyce to pursue the clear culprit, the person who was guilty if you are to believe anything in this affidavit, guilty of obstruction of justice as well as violating the espionage law.
hypothetical, but probable cause that there could be obstruction of justice found at mar-a-lago. they say that providing information about investigative avenues and techniques here could provide a road map for potential ways for people to obstruct the investigation. that s protecting the ongoing investigation. also, there s an interest in protecting law enforcement safety. there are law enforcement agents, they say, that have repeatedly received threats of violence from after their names were associated with this search. and even in court, when we were there last week, usually you see lower-level line attorneys in court, you see their names on papers. that is not the case here. the people that were in court are very high-ranking officials at the justice department, a career official for counterintelligence, and the acting u.s. attorney from the southern district of florida himself. the stakes clearly are enormous. maggie haberman, you ve reported and brilliantly extensively on trump