thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signed off on the affidavit and he indicated thursday that he is willing to unseal portions of it that were used to just guy the fbi search. he told prosecutors to prepare redactions to the document in case the ruling is to release it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s f
it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s former national security adviser put it. there was no standing order. i was not briefed on anything like that when i started as national security adviser, i never heard of it, never saw it in operation, never knew anything about it. the president never said anything to me during 17 months there. i just think that it is a complete fiction. cnn s sara murray has a closer look at the fight over the search warrant s records. reporter: an extraordinary legal battle playing out in florida. i think the country depends on information. we want to know what is in there. reporter: over what the public deserves to know about the search at mar-a-lago. a judge setting in motion today the possible release of a heavily redact