today. we begin with blockbuster revelation the justice department. in a court filing last night prosecutors say classified documents were, quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the filing making it abundantly clear the justice department is focused on efforts by trump and those around him to obstruct their investigation. the document also includes this photo, and you can see in it several folders there seized by the fbi. they are clearly marked top secret and secret. it is important to note these photos from the fbi represent their evidence that they were documenting as they do on a regular basis. this is not to show how they were discovered. prosecutors are asking a federal judge to deny the former president s request to have a special master appointed. trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to all of this. let s begin with cnn s evan perez live in washington with more on these new allegations and there is a lo
more momentum in key states. let s go outfront. good evening, i m tammy baldwin in for erin burnett. out front tonight, all eyes on the doj. a federal judge ordering the justice department to release the redacted affidavit used to justify the fbi search of trump s mar-a-lago home. the release could happen anytime between now and noon tomorrow. search warrant affidavits typically contain pretty crucial information, like why investigators want to search a property and what potential crimes they re looking for. judge bruce reinhart is ordering the affidavits release, agreeing with the justice department that certain portions of the document should remain sealed. this is how he put it. quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties. the investigation strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and grand jury information. so now the question remains what will the doj reveal, and what will it tell us about the in
man is carlos de olivera who helped walt nauta move boxes of classified documents after he was subpoenaed for those documents. we don t know exactly how many times he helped move them, but we know he did help, and we know those boxes sat for months in a ballroom where events and gatherings were taking place, that the public were able to access. the boxes were moved to a business center and then to a bathroom. from there the boxes were moved today a storage room. we ve got a lot to get to tonight with these additional developments. let s begin with evan perez live in washington. let s start with what we re looking at tonight. in june we got an indictment with 49 pages. today we got a superseding indictment, it takes the place of. it is 60 pages. we have additional charges. they re alleging video is deleted. they have a new document presented in here. how significant is this? what specifically are they
they re describing whether carlos can be trusted, whether he s good. after that conversation donald trump according to prosecutors has a conversation with d dd de oliveira. and all of this after retrieving those documents from mar-a-lago. he s one of those people seen on surveillance tapes moving boxes. he s working with walt nauta to remove boxes. and according to prosecutors some of those boxes don t come back to that storage room. again, that is part of the key facts here in this case. and we also know he was responsible for putting a lock on that door, that they had told the fbi that they were going to secure that room with those documents. of course, it ended up not being secured because according to prosecutors documents were moved out and not put back in. all right, evan, thank you very much. and as evan gets more, i ll bring this to you. i want to go to our experts
the trump the lawyers, and we are not because it is of course, longer term when we get to trial. rahel. what you are describing is the process of discovery which is fascinating in a case like this. evan perez live in washington. thank you. and now to the divide on capitol hill. some say that the indictment of former president trump is not going to come without consequences, and they are calling for even to pardon the former president if they are elected, but not everybody is on