reid. we begin with more on the search at donald trump s mar-a-lago home. while trump and his allies have been raging the fbi and the justice department have remained conspicuously quiet. here s what we have learned. according to authority the federal authorities drew increasingly concerned that the man, i don t know, known for skirting the law for the last 40 years and his lawyers, have not returned all of the classified material that he carted off with him when he went scurrying down to florida after being booted out of office by joe biden. i a cording to the washington post officials, quote, blame, suspicious became suspicious that when trump gave 15 boxes of items to the national archives about seven months ago, either the former president or people close to him held on to key records. trump attorney christina bobb, the former oan reporter who helped spearhead the recount said trump s legal teams were in discussions with the justice department this spring about record
picked special master. this is really a put up or shut up moment for team trump. judge raymond dearie ordering the trump team to back up his out of court claims that the fbi somehow planted evidence during their search of mar-a-lago. back it up or put up or shut up as they say. the search that turned up more than 100 classified documents. the judge wants it to give him a sworn declaration with a list of specific items they claim were planted. that s the thing. this is about facts. it s about evidence. you can t just make wild accusations in court without a shred of evidence even if that is your main m.o. out in the court of maga opinion. the judge also considering testimony from, quote, witnesses with knowledge of the relevant facts and let s not forget the former president would have you believe he could declassify documents just by thinking about it, which is not a thing. senate republicans not buying that either. up here we take it very seriously. people can get hurt. pe
a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we don t know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, substantial grand jury information and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-seen documents today including the motion where prosecutors argue that they needed to keep their search warrant secret because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. there are some more really intriguing clues in one of those documents. more on that in just a moment. but you ve got to wonder just how much the former president actually wants the full affidavit to be released. because his lawyer sitting right there in court today didn t sa
after fed chair jerome powell promises, quote, forceful and rapid action to tame inflation. why he s warning of more economic pain for all of us. count down to liftoff the highly anticipated mission launching monday to get americans back to the moon. thank you so much for waking up with us. saturday, august 27th. that means it s the weekend. doesn t that feel good? to relax. it does feel good. enjoy breakfast. hang out with amara walker. we don t get to enjoy breakfast. what are you talking about? eating between. you don t see it, but i m e enjoying it. are you having beef jerky? prosciutto. fancy. we have a lot of news to get to. we re learning more information from the affidavit authorizing the search of former president trump s mar-a-lago residence. now the heavily redacted document reveals that classified material found at the estate includes some of the country s most sensitive secrets. according to the filing, the fbi said the search at mar-a-l
hear arguments over whether or not to it and steal the fbi affidavit behind the fbi. cnn is learning that some trump allies are pushing him to publicly released surveillance video of the search. let s discuss now, with the senior law enforcement analyst and deputy director who is the author of the threat to how the fbi protects america in the age of terror. also, kim whaley is. her she is a busy professor of law at america university and the author of how to think like a lawyer. i m so glad both of you are on. good evening, thank you very much. so andrew we are talking about the former president here threatening to released surveillance video. wouldn t that put this investigation in danger somehow and in the agents who are sk executing the search warrant? there s a couple of things that they re gonna be concerned about. first and foremost, they re focused on the work. they go into that space to recover materials highly classified sensitive materials that shouldn t be in the