house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th
telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald trump s orbit was that his attorneys were engaging on this issue, this notion that he took documents with him when he left the white house that the justice department wanted back, but what we are learning is authorities were suspicious that the trump team wasn t being truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents, that they weren t putting forward everything that they had available, and they were also concerned that some of the documents could potentially
and president trump said he wasn t given any head s up that the search was happening. how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? i didn t have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trump s attorneys. let s bring in a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. today the doj will submit their proposaled reed redactione judge. and of course this will all be unser seal, but you ve been through this redaction process before. what do you anticipate the redactions will look like, will we actually learn any new information? it is interesting, i have been through literally hundreds of these. and what the redactions will look like, you will see the affidavit and it will and i
well, we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trump s mar-a-lago home, and we re learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant that was unsealed on friday agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to gathering, losing or destroying u.s. defense information. a property receipt also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents including several marked top secret. monday s search also igniting a furious backlash among some trump supporters. the fbi says it is currently investigating what it calls an unprecedented number of threats against the bureau and employees are being urged to remain vigilant when working in and around fbi facilities. a closer look now at the documents unsealed on friday and what they reveal about the justice department s investigation. on friday a federal court in florida released several page
to give the documents back. politically within the primary and i know this if he s simply indicted for holding the documents for about instructing justice, i don t think that will hurt him. it could help him in the gop primary, while it would hurt him in the general election. if there s an indictment. if there s a charge related to him showing this information to people, being cavalier with it and we don t know that that would also change the calculation. because as bill barr is saying, i think a lot of people like me that have been around him, think he s his own worst enemy. we all can be. but the facts are the facts that if not only was it that he was incal ka transparent, he won t give them back, they re his, he doesn t think he s doing anything. other preponderates have not given back documents. . that s one way you can look at it. but if they have information of