representatives all the time that they thought was appropriate to comply with their legal obligations to return official documents, including potentially classified records. i think it is really important to highlight the fact that one of trump s own lawyers conceded to the washington post yesterday that the warrant, which the lawyer saw, indicated the warrant was seeking information relating to classified information. the president is in significant legal jeopardy if he retained classified information at mar-a-lago and especially if he failed to turn it over to the department and the fbi all these months later. david, since we have you, let s get this out there right now, because people have been asking questions comparing this to the situation, the investigation surrounding hillary clinton s emails. how is this different? we don t have enough factual information yet to compare all the many ways this may be different, john. the clinton investigation stands on its own.
investigators saying this left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trump s attorneys on fox news last night. they don t understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesn t get a new marking all the time. he s left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of him declassifying any of these documents. in fact, the former president s team agrees in a special master should have top-secret security clearance, but here s the thing. according to dozens of pages of court documents essentially all of the new information that we learned in the last two days, about the former president and his lawyers possibly lying about these documents moving them to keep them hidden s even think pes cher of apparently classified documents found in trump s office, all of tha
home. the wall street journal reports the attorney general merrick garland deliberated for weeks over whether to approve that fbi search. separately, sources tell cnn that trump white house lawyer eric herschmann has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating the insurrection. and in a separate investigation, georgia prosecutors have told rudy giuliani he is a target of a criminal probe into election interference. and in yet another investigation, long time trump organization cfo allen weisselberg is expected to plead guilty in a tax evasion case. let s get to it, let s begin with katelyn polantz on the news out of the justice department this morning. so, what are you hearing from the justice department about this request to unseal the affidavit? reporter: the justice department does not want to unearth a lot more detail about what is going on here in that prompted the search of mar-a-lago and what is under criminal investigation here. in a court filing yeste
so this is an opening to discovery, it s looking for information, and you mentioned that traverse. so brian kohberger and his father drove from idaho to pennsylvania in december, and that came after the stabbings took place. so this is different, right? so a grand jury i guess the grand jury being used as an investigative arm potentially? correct. so it s a big distinction. usually you hear about a grand jury proceeding where we re looking to indict an individual and the grand jury is going to make a determination about whether or not there s probable cause to indict that person. this is an entirely different proceedings that s taking place. as you said, it s factfinding, it s searching, it s talking about what potential crimes could be out there and it s being used as an investigatory process. now, an interesting component,
facing a wider, more complicated bind with more classified records found at his delaware home. this time during an unprecedented fbi search of a sitting president s residence. the white house said agents were invited with no search warrant issued. some of the additional six items discovered date back to his senate years, according to the president s personal lawyer, suggesting those were not part of packing up his vice presidential office. today i pressed a white house counsel spokesman. are there any other searches at any other locations? look, we re not going to get ahead of the department of justice and their investigatory process. this is a responsible way to make sure they re able to conduct an investigation independent and thoroughly without undue influence from the outside. reporter: the white house refuses to answer key questions, including how many classified documents were found. this smells to high heaven with the constant drip, drip,