the former president publicly confirmed the search that evening as is his right. reporter: late today, the court ordered the justice department to meet with donald trump s lawyers to determine if they oppose unsealing the warrant, giving them until friday afternoon to respond. today the attorney general suggested that a court approved fbi search might have been avoidable but without explaining why where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search reporter: according to sources, a june 3rd subpoena was delivered to the office of the former president requiring classified and government documents be turned over then a meeting was set up to retrieve them. mr. trump stopped by at that time officials asked to see the storage room and the former president agreed days later, authorities sent an e-mail to request better security and a second lock was added. weeks passed until the august 8th search.