disaster in a live report. this is cnn newsroom. in we are getting our clearest look into the classified documents kept at donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. details what federal investigators expected to find. that has been properly taking materials, evidence of obstruction. donald trump insists he did nothing wrong and calls for the release of the affidavit s of refuse from the fbi and justice department. meanwhile, president biden is mocking his claims of declassified documents. here he is. two i want to know if i can declassify everything in the world? [ inaudible question ] it depends on the document and how secure. jessica has more on what the affidavit reveals. reporter: president trump kept them at mar-a-lago for months. the top-secret stuff can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the doj is revealing the boxes that contained classified. 92 are mark sigrid 25 are mark top-secret park visitors. otherwise on properly identified. particul
tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president s home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi s fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here s cnn s justice correspondent, jessica schneider. startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top-secret stuff and compartment can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes that the archives revealed in january of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed
ask them to uncover everything so that we can see what is going on. i understand the witness protection issue. reporter: legal advice is seemingly for an audience of one. randy kay, cnn. new york times and washington correspondent and political analyst maggie has reported extensively on donald trump. she spoke with wolf blitzer. he asked her if she was surprised to learn that these records were mixed in with documents taken to mar-a-lago and not identified. what you saw was the trump people saying they have been cooperating. the justice department laid out that it is not their experience. it was a year and a half of trying to get information of the trump team asking for delays and the fbi reviewing
the trump team asking for delays and the fbi reviewing material, and so it s as if you are dealing with two different universes. you have the trump folks saying one thing, but you have the doj saying absolutely none of what they re saying is accurate. i do think it s important to note, wolf, that a lot of what is now made public, i think, about witnesses, is really important, because trump as history of talking about people who are witnesses in investigation and the doj is obviously very concerned about that. i think beyond that, in terms of the details, we have all been reporting so much over the last couple of weeks that i think for the general public just absorbing this, i don t think much minds are swayed in either direction. preet, let me just follow up with you on something that you said. is there anything in this 38-page affidavit, redacted affidavit, i should point out, that you re disappointed you didn t see or learn? going back to what i said