what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? let s bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? here s what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record act with the archives. fifteen boxes of those were delivered to the archives in january. in february the archives at a referral to the department of justice because they said they had found classified information in the boxes. sometime after that the fbi start a criminal investigation. fast-forward up until may when there is discussion with the trump team about getting a hole of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were
had to seek getting a lawyer as a result of all of this. they found classified documents not only at mar-a-lago, but at a storage facility and elsewhere, trump facilities as well. exactly. and, again, part of this dispute has been the justice department s insistence that there were additional documents missing. so in recent weeks, over thanksgiving, the trump team did hire their own team to do a search at four additional properties and they did find two additional classified documents at a storage facility. so the question is, is this all? is this all that there is? and the justice department seems to believe that it may not be. well, we shall see. evan, stay with us. i also want to bring in defense attorney, former federal prosecutor shan wu and cnn s chief political analyst, gloria borger. what s your reaction to this decision not to hold, at least for now, trump in contempt? i really think it puts the justice department back in a difficult situation. they can t seem to make
of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were still lots of documents at mar-a-lago they were not getting that s where the executed this raid. there are some other interesting points in there. that is generally what we thought a lot of the document was redacted it. so in some ways we are still in the dark of what they presented to the judge. paul: that concerns witnesses in the course of the investigation and so on for the sanest separate document they do not want to give that away, jason. if you look at what we actually know in this document, what you see is it seems to be a fight over documents. there really is not a lot of new information other than that to suggest some larger crime or conspiracy here. you are right. it does seem to be a fight over documents. we are still in the dark about is why the urgency of the raid? as kim said this is referred to the justice department back into