live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vause. damning new details this hour with the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the justice department says confidential documents were likely concealed and removed from storage to obstruct its investigation. the revelations are part of the departments court filings against trump s request for a special master to review evidence seized from mar-a-lago. the justice department also argues that trump lacks standing to intervene in a federal investigation, because the documents belong to the government, not to him. more now from cnn political correspondent sara murray, reporting in from washington. the justice department weighing in with its side of the story of what happened in the run up and in the aftermath of the search at mar-a-lago. this is all part of the court battle that s playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third party, appointed to review the documents t
simply say you do not take picture. a good, a skilled adversary could potentially, if you bring your phone can themselves take pictures or over here things. i mean, we are talking about very wicked and ingenious adversaries. and, you know, documents strewn around on the floor just leave you incomplete cold sweat thinking about it. but to get to your question, it does not matter, the crime here, the obstruction is he took them, he knew he did not have a right to take them, he lied about having giving them all up. that s when he knew the investigation was a foot, that serious enough, that s obstruction in actual 20-year maximum in the federal code. that, that s, whether or not there is a further, like, crazy manchurian candidate scenario or not, it does not matter. harry, harry levin, juliette
so that this crazy hypothesis, the man churen candidate scenario, begins to emerge as the least plausible for all of the lunatic gestures and opinions that are driving his policy such as it is. karine, i saved the best and lunatic, the best for last. following up on a blockbuster report last friday, a report from my colleagues here that the white house office you sort of look at the desecration of the office of the presidency, it isn t just the oval office. it s everything in that building. the office that approves security clearances was outed for overruling 30 background clearance applications, including one of jared kushner, the president s son-in-law. today that whistle-blower on that case has been suspended. this feels like the flashing yellow light of the scandal that
much damage to relationships with our allies. listening to the questions from the democrats today, i could not help but think there are a lot of people who seem to be painting the possibility of a rather large conspiracy that i don t think will be proven by anybody, one involving jeff sessions and rex tillerson and carter page and this person and that person. are you ever concerned that democrats are creating a situation here that there is no amount of evidence and no fbi investigation will ever prove? some democrats seem to be suggesting like a 15- manchurian candidate scenario. i don t think we can say where the investigation will end up. we need to be objective and follow the evidence to wherever it leads and at the end of the day say, okay, this is what we found. this we could never corroborate or prove or this we have proved