mar-a-lago. and we re keep ing an eye o flooding in the southwestern u.s. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the biden white house is officially hands off regarding last week s fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago residence. it turned up 11 sets of classified material, including some with the highest secrecy. privately, some white house officials admit they re worried about what other sensitive docu might be out there. as jessica schneider reports, the department of justice is pushing back. reporter: prosecutors have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. it will likely be a tall task for this department of justice. they have said repeatedly that any retaxedactions they would propose it would make the affidavit devoid of content. regardless, the judge wants their recommendation business next thursday at noon, and he might have additional conversations with the do
here is a name, i will bring you pictures of the person who you want to have killed. you say that you now feared for your own life? yes. a hit that could not miss? or a surprise to die for? they actually noticed a camera inside the car? this was a big moment? huge moment. everything took off real fast. no fairytale ending for this love story. it would end either in murder or prison. he says, my guys don t back down from a plan. hello, welcome to dateline. when ira bernstein and susan met on the college campus, they could not know the future that they would become college sweethearts, marry, start a family and that as their family grew, so it s something else. jealousy. they certainly could never have imagined the life they would build over the years would be torn apart by a murderous scheme. here is andrea canning, with the target . in this quiet, wealthy neighborhood, behind the gates of his lavish estate, a fuse was lit. newfound money lead to explo
a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we don t know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, substantial grand jury information and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-seen documents today including the motion where prosecutors argue that they needed to keep their search warrant secret because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. there are some more really intriguing clues in one of those documents. more on that in just a moment. but you ve got to wonder just how much the former president actually wants the full affidavit to be released. because his lawyer sitting right there in court today didn t sa
million dollars a day for at least two days following the fbi search. and he s continue to send out dozens of emails and text to supporters. and then there s our cnn exclusive tonight. 18 top trump administration officials saying, the claim from the former president and his allies that he had a so-called standing order to declassify any order he took from the oval office. they say, this is nonsense. he had a standing order, there s the would ve been looking for. that the documents removed from the oval office and taken to the residence were deemed to be declassified the moment he removed them. donald trump issued sweeping declassification orders on multiple occasions. 18 former top trump officials several one senior official calls it, and i am quoting here, bs. that is not my word. another senior official called it total nonsense. former chief of staff john kelly said, another quote, nothing approaching in order that foolish was ever given. look, you cannot just decla
it. more that from jessica schneider. reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj s warrant application where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defense info