Alex has the night off and what a night it is for the past two hours we have been

speed reading the newly unredacted affidavit that the government used to get a

search warrant for Trump's Maralago Club last year. Full disclosure, NBC was part of a group of

media organizations that sued to get this affidavit unredacted. And now it is

out. It is not totally unredacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original

version, so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can.

Again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately

was this.

The newly unredacted sections of the affidavit

give us a much better understanding

of what the government could see

on the surveillance footage it got from Marilago.

There's fun details we didn't have before, like how the cameras were motion activated,

but really it's what the cameras couldn't see that sticks out.

On July 6th of last year, the Trump organization provided the FBI with a hard drive containing

the footage of four cameras.

All four of those cameras were in the basement hallway leading to the

storage room where Trump had been keeping these classified documents. Now that's a

pivotal part of how the Justice Department knew documents were being moved in and out of that storage

room. But those cameras did not capture what was happening upstairs at Marlago, which is what makes this interesting. This is from that same affidavit from August of last year.

The investigation has established that other boxes were moved from the storage room to other locations in the premises,

including the former president of the United States residential suite and Pine Hall.

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