Justice Department releases redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant

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🗓️ 27 August 2022

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The FBI told a judge that there was "probable cause to believe" that classified national security materials were improperly taken to "unauthorized" locations at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, and that a search would also likely find "evidence of obstruction," according to a redacted version of the search warrant affidavit released Friday. CNN National Security Analyst and Former Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, gives his perspective to the what this all means. And CNN Senior Political Commentator and former Obama Senior Advisor, David Axelrod, weighs in with how the Obama White House may have handled classified documents. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good Friday evening to you, Jim Sudo here sitting in for Anderson.
0:05.6	Tonight, making sense of the unprecedented look we've just gotten into what until now
0:11.6	was almost unimaginable.
0:13.2	The criminal investigation of a former president.
0:16.8	It follows the equally unprecedented court approved search of a former president's home.
0:22.2	Today, under orders from the same federal judge who approved that search warrant, the Justice
0:27.1	Department released the affidavit backing the warrant.
0:30.7	The document laying out the government's case that a search could yield evidence of
0:34.4	a crime or even multiple crimes.
0:37.5	It is heavily redacted to protect sources, potential witnesses, as well as the ongoing
0:42.6	investigation of not just the president, but also quoting the document now, all potential
0:48.8	criminal confederates.
0:51.1	That said, there is much it does reveal, starting with what investigators believe they would
0:56.1	find beyond the 15 boxes that were returned to the government in January.
1:01.3	Quoting again, there is probable cause to believe that additional documents that contain
1:06.1	classified NDI or that are presidential records subject to record retention requirements
1:13.2	currently remain at the premises.
1:16.2	We should note, NDI stands for National Defense Information.
1:19.9	The affidavit goes on to provide a preliminary assessment of what was in the January material.
1:26.0	Starting again, 184 unique documents bearing classification markings, including 67 documents
1:33.9	marked as confidential, 92 documents marked as secret, 25 documents marked as top secret,
1:41.3	25 top secret documents.
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