ongoing. this document, and it s completely unredacted form, is what convinced a federal judge in florida to sign off on a search warrant at trump s club to the ex week go. more than half of those today pages are redacted, even full or part. but despite that, we learned quite a bit from it. here we go, page one, quote, the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. on january 18th of 2022, the national archives received from the office of former president donald j trump, 15 boxes of records. i just want to pause here for a second. remember this was a document that was written before the search warrant that was executed on august 8th. it is kind of starting to see just how much evidence the government had on hand to support probable cause that even more classified documents remained at trump s palm beach estate.
[laughs] of course that s obviously why you get that philosophy degree. very well established. you have founded application for that not many others have my friend. i know your alma mater is proud of you. happy affidavit day, i m trying to make upon thank you chris. let me put an end to this crosstalk. i m gonna start my show now. have a good weekend. thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour. happy not-so-summer friday. the federal court system has an electronic filing system called pacer. you may not be familiar with it it stands for public access to court electronic records. pacer is a nifty tool for attorneys to upload filings for cases and for the public to access the filing system. today at noon, pacer crashed because shortly after northeastern, we got this. all 38 pages of it, including cover sheets and exhibits. the highly anticipated fbi affidavit that supported the governments executions search warrant on mar-a-lago. and it is highly unusual that w
governments application to executions search warrant on mar-a-lago. and it is highly unusual that we are going to see it, even a redacted copy of it while this investigation is still ongoing. this document, and it s completely unredacted form, is what convinced a federal judge in florida to sign off on a search warrant at trump s club to the ex week go. more than half of those today pages are redacted, even full or part. but despite that, we learned quite a bit from it. here we go, page one quote, the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. on january of 2022, the national archives received from the office of former president donald j trump, 15 boxes of records. i just want to pause here for a second. remember this was a document that was written before the search warrant that was executed on august 8th.
understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former president s home. sandra: one part reading after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises. john: david spunt is live at the justice department, 38 pages in total released in regard to this, including some attachments. so far we are getting an idea what the documents were or at least the category in which they fell. but we are not getting a lot in terms of the why they thought it was so urgent to go in there and unprecedented fashion and the fbi conduct a raid of mar-a-lago. david: john and sandra, that is the detail we have wanted to know since we first learned agents were going in
the material was marked with the highest levels of classification that exists, material that is meant to be held only in secure government facilities not at a private club where basically anyone can pay for membership and wander around. arguably, the agent s most alarming finding that we were able to see in this redacted version was that the boxes contained classified information that came from human intelligence sources meaning if the documents were mishandled, leaked or transmitted they could compromise the identity of american intelligence assets and the affidavit also lays out why doj had good reason not to believe or trust trump and his lawyers knowing that back in february of this year, after the archives notified congress that there was classified material and what they got back from mar-a-lago, trump put out a statement that very fact. investigators write this, quote, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified national defense