this is so unprecedented. so unusual. why did the fbi need to go and get boxes and this affidavit does lay that out exactly. jesse: i m not sure what affidavit she was looking at because this affidavit doesn t lay out anything. half of it is blacked out. here is what the affidavit doesn t say. we re pretty sure trump has the nuclear football in melania s shoe closet. but here is what it does say. we are likely to find evidence of obstruction. what does that mean? the last time you were there, trump let you in. you had lunch by the pool, and he threw a lock on the storage closet because you told him to. now you are going to go back in because you are like live to find evidence of obstruction? again, what does that even mean? that you will likely find the lock you told him to put on the storage closet? and, by the way, the fbi agent, this guy name bratt. obama donor. got a warrant from a judge who also donated to obama. but the biden guys had to go in there, why? because some
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
documents with classification marks. we are also learning additional details about the criminal justice implications possibly for the former president. he is calling federal prosecutors hacks and thugs tonight who had no write to storm his property and steal everything in sight in his words. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, david. good evening to you in this redacted affidavit we are seeing a picture of federal prosecutors who had an escalating concern about documents stored at the home of former president donald trump. in justifying its search, the sworn affidavit notes there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises referring to mar-a-lago. trump s team in january turned over 15 boxes of materials stored there. 15 of them containing 184 classified documents. 67 marked confidential. 25 marked labeled 25 top secret. the affidavit says some of the material a
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
that will be part of the campaign. join jennifer griffin this weekend fox news sunday her guests include democratic national committee senior adviser cedric richmond and u.s. central command chief general mckenzie. thanks for inviting us in your home. fair, balanced and unafraid. make it a great weekend. go special report car. jesse watters primetime starts right now. jesse: have a great weekend. you too, bret. jesse: we begin tonight with a fox news alert. we finally got our hands on that affidavit used to raise president trump s house and, as expected, the media is freaking out. i can tell you that the hair on the back of my neck stood up when i saw those classification markings referenced here. here is a redacted portion back in the back. buff the front several pages have been unsealed. jessica, let s start with the biggest revelations from this redacted affidavit. yeah. so a lot of really intricate and quite frankly startling details. was was a search needed?