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
details the potential offenses being investigated. you can see there, it says willful retention of national defense information, also concealment or removal of government records. also obstruction of a federal investigation. that willful retention that you see there, anderson, it s key because legal experts are telling our evan perez and caitlin polantz that it s that language that points directly to the former president as a possible subject of the criminal probe. something else that was released was the motion to seal, and it has federal prosecutors expressing their concern that, as you can see there, evidence might be destroyed. and, you know anderson, that could explain why fbi agents were really compelled to move in and spent hours taking, you know, 11 steps of classified documents in the end. could you just explain what the doj s main argument against releasing the affidavit is? yeah, they ve been arguing this in their papers, they also argued it forcefully in court
group of agents saying it was, quote, unannounced. which is what normally happens with search warrants, by the way. and that they broke into a safe. now he wasn t there and they carried out the search. but i want to turn right away to cnn correspondent, randi kaye, who is actually in palm beach county. i ll stay with us tonight cnn s chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. caitlin i want to begin with you here. because, look, a search on the former president s home is absolutely extraordinary. and now we know it is about the handling of classified documents. what is happening right now? what is it all about? it certainly is remarkable. if these events are unfolding in the way that the former president is saying that they are and the statement it does seem to be a pretty huge escalation of what we already know. that there was an investigation underway and to whether or not he mishandled potentially classified information when he left the white house. now, when it c
hello, everyone. this is don lemon tonight. thanks so much for joining. if i actually wrote all of this for hbo max, you would say, no! no way. that didn t happen. you almost have to remind yourself that actually happened. that a president of the united states, right? refused to accept the results of our free and fair election. tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power that makes us a democracy. try to hold on to power for himself. they ignored the will of the people. you will set to remind yourself that it actually happened. it did. today, we learned a lot more about how it actually happened. the testimony from witness after witness after witness about the shameful episodes in our history, a lot of it, never before seen. i m going to play with what they play with the people to hear. i m gonna play it for you. the biggest bombshell came the last few minutes. this is what liz cheney had to say. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investi
discover theratears®. like no other dry-eye drop in the world. with the 5 vital electrolytes found in natural tears, theratears® is one-of-a-kind hydration that feels like silk. theratears®. a drop like no other™. . a troubling theme in these hearings made a return appearance today. the vice chair of the committee, liz cheney, laid it out in her closing remarks. after our last hearing, president trump tried to call a witness in our investigation, a witness you have not yet seen in these hearings. that person declined to answer or respond to president trump s call. and instead alerted their lawyer to the call. their lawyer alerted us. and this committee has supplied that information to the department of justice. let me say one more time, we will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously. for more on how this is being handled, we re joined by cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. is the committee going as far as accusing the former preside