failed the country. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom. we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trump s mar-a-lago home and we re learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant unsealed friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, loss or destruction of u.s. defense information. property receipts also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents including several marked top secret. they also seized several photo binders, information about the president of france and a document about pardoning roger stone, a staunch trump ally convicted of lying to congress. we explain what the unsealed documents tell us about the ongoing investigation. reporter: on friday a federal court in florida released seven pages of documents that represent that unprecedented search and seizure that took
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afghanistan, we ll look at how life has changed under the taliban s reign. announcer: live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we now know why the fbi searched former u.s. president s donald trump s mar-a-lago home, according to a warrant unsealed on friday, agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including possible violations of the espionage act related to the gathering, less or redestruction of u.s. defense information. also learning details about some of the items recovered during monday s search. a property receipt also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents seized 11 sets of classified documents including one marked top secret sci, one of the highest levels of classification. they also seized four sets of top secret documents, three marked secret and three marked confidential. cnn s katelyn polantz explains what this tells us about the on going investigation. reporter: on friday, a federal court in florida released seve
detail that the justice department provided to this judge that ultimately signed off on this search warrant. we know that donald trump and many republicans are complaining and suggesting that somehow this is a politically motivated action and that this is some kind of nefarious act against the former president, but what s clear from what we have been told by the department of justice is that there were grounds, there was sufficient evidence, so sufficient that a federal judge signed off on a search warrant of this former president s private residence. we know this is unprecedented in u.s. history, but the acts that donald trump engaged in in terms of taking secret, confidential, highly sensitive documents from the white house, very serious allegations against him and very serious
u.s. history, but the acts that donald trump engaged in in terms of taking secret, confidential, highly sensitive documents from the white house, very serious allegations against him and very serious actions that required this level of intervention from the fbi and the department of justice. yeah. i mean, in that list of potential crimes, some come under the espionage act, but that doesn t necessarily mean spying as it sort of sounds to the layperson, i guess. it s pretty broad. take us through that. yes, you re right, kim. when we hear the word espionage automatically people think it relates to spying on the u.s. government, but that act covers things broader than just spying. it covers things such as the removal of sensitive documents that could land in the hands of a foreign adversary, someone or