the investigation. walk us through some of the key revelations in here. well, the reason why the fbi went to mar-a-lago just over two weeks ago to do this unusual this highly unprecedented search was because after reviewing the 15 boxes that were retrieved earlier this year from mar-a-lago an sent back to the national archives, they found 184 unique documents bearing classification markings. that s a lot of documents that were being stored in an unsecured environment in the basement at the former president s beach house in palm beach. that s the bottom line of why the fbi was so concerned, why the national archives were so concerned and why this became a criminal investigation in february of this year. obviously this is now an investigation that is ongoing and that s the reason why there is so much information that is still redacted. about half of the pages in this 38-page affidavit document are still redacted because the fbi says it has concern about the safety of witnes
but they do say that there is probable cause to believe that classified national defense information and presidential records would remain at mar-a-lago and the investigators note that mar-a-lago does not have a secure location for the keeping of classified information or highly sensitive documents that would pertain to the national defense. just to give our viewers a sense of these pages of what has been here s the redacted portion back in the back. but the front several pages have been unsealed in this affidavit. and what was interesting, evan, before we got the affidavit, the doj issued a memorandum of law listing basically the risks for releasing this as whole without any revisions. talk about what was in here specifically the threats to fbi agents and to witnesses. yeah. these documents there s two documents, memorandum of law and