possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 29th. it s pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid-may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. quote, identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential.
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and good morning to you, it is saturday, august 27th. i am ali velshi, we are learning more about why the federal government destroy their decision to conduct the unprecedented surge on the former presidents private residence and why a federal judge granted the warrant for them to do. at less than 24 hours ago, redacted copy of the affidavit for that search warrant was unsealed. the document is what the justice department submitted to a federal judge to convince him to approve the search of mar-a-lago, so that fbi agents could recover the box of materials that properly belong to the united states government, many of which turned out to be classified documents. the affidavit does not contain proof of a crime. but it details why the justice department believes it has probable cause to believe that a crime may have been committed. the justice department calls the affidavit, quote, a roadmap to the government s ongoing investigation. that is why about half of the 38-page document
ndi, meaning national defense information. let s get to jessica schneider. the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit? so, a lot of intricate and quite frankly startling details about the hundreds of pages of documents that the national archives worked for months to get back from mar-a-lago. so, most of this 37-page affidavit addresses the 15 boxes of material they finally got back in january of this year. 14 of those 15 boxes contained classified information. here s how it is broken down. 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, 67 of those marked confidential, 92 marked secret. 25 marked top secret. particularly alarming to the intelligence experts we ve been hearing from is there were, in fact, hcs markings on some of these documents, meaning that s information actually greened from human sources, that if that information is revealed, it could endanger the lives of people secretly working around the world for the government. these documents were