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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 ....
Seeing, but we do see a quote at the very top of this saying that, you know, there is the belief that there is evidence of crimes still contained at mar-a-lago. we need to go and get that evidence. and the way that the justice department wrote it is that they wrote there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain classified ndi or national defense information or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements currently remain at the premises of mar-a-lago. there is also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises. so those are the three things that are under investigation here that this affidavit outlines. looking into the espionage act, the handling of national defense information, the obstruction of justice, also the handling of federal records. the document does have some things redacted here. we can t even see apparently the part that explains why they have such probable cause for obstruction o ....