donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that s
donald trump s florida home. a week ago we learned of the unprecedented search of the former president s mar-a-lago home and since then, the justice department revealed the scope of the sensitive and classified documents that were recovered from there. sources tell cnn one of trump s attorneys signed a written statement back in june declaring there were no more classified materials left at ma mar-a-lago. it was asked of the attorney general for information on the records seized in trump s home. the former president continues for his part to offer shifting explanations for why he took the classified records from the white house in the first place and then didn t return them after the fact. much to get to so let s begin with cnn kaitlin live in washington. kaitlin, what more are you learning about this new request from top senators? reporter: well, kate over the weekend and today we ve seen a lot of bipartisan calls for transparency around this search even after we got that search warr
documents seized from mar-a-lago. there is other transparency efforts that are happening too we re waiting to see if there is a resolution. news organizations are asking for access to the affidavit in court that would support be the narrative supporting that search. but we may never know what is actually in these documents. donald trump says he declassified them but there is no evidence he actually did that. kate? kaitlin, thank you so much for laying it out for us like that. joining me for more is cnn senior legal analyst former federal prosecutor, ellie. what do you see in the unsealed documents. what staicks out to you? so many unanswered questions but we know more. the most important thing we learned about the search itself is what exactly did the fbi found inside mar-a-lago and seized? we saw this document called receipt for property the fbi fills out at the search. this document is 33 separate headings and subheadings of