this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
there are frankly even more questions. and we re going to get into some of those tonight. this afternoon a federal judge ordering the unsealing of the warrant that authorized that search. and a list of what the investigators removed, allah, the receipt. now the warrant identifies three federal crimes the doj is looking into as part of a criminal investigation, including possible violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records. let s be clear, no one has been charged with any of these crimes at this point, and we don t have any indication it s actually forthcoming. what we do know is that investigators removed 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, which of course is the home of the former president of the united states, donald trump, in florida. now, those unsealed documents, they show that investigators seized one set of documents marked top secret sci. what does the sci stand for? sensitive compartmented informa
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including some marked as top secret, and meant to be only available in special government facilities. a list of items removed from the property shows fbi agents took around 20 boxes of items as well as binders of photos, at least one handwritten note and a document about pardoning trump s ally, roger stone. also included was information about the president of france, according to the three-page list. that list contained in a seven-page document also includes the warrant to search the premise which was granted by a federal magistrate judge in florida. the list includes references to one set of documents marked as various classified tssci documents, an abbreviation that refers to top secret sensitive compartmented information. it also says agents collected four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents and three sets of confidential documents. the list didn t provide any more details about the substance of the documents. to the extent that anybody is back to
this is cnn breaking news. and let s get straight to the breaking news. the unsealing of the search warrant authorizing the fbi search of former president trump s florida home at mar-a-lago. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is working the story for us. first of all, what are we learning from these documents and what did the fbi find? wellering wolf, this extraordinary search of the former president ended with the fbi taking away about 20 boxes of documents and items from the residence of the former president in palm beach. among those documents, among those boxes were 11 sets of documents that were of various levels of classification. there were four sets that were top secret, three that were secret, labeled as secret, and three that were labeled at the confidential level. now, there is a set of documents that was labeled at top secret sci. that stands for sensitive compartmented information. and this is the type of information that you have to go to speciall