Highly-classified information was retrieved in the raid of Mar-a-Lago.
There was new evidence uncovered by the DOJ that led to the search.
The footage of the Mar-a-Lago storage facility alarmed officials.
The New York Times reported that federal agents requested a warrant to search Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate after reviewing new footage of a hallway outside a storage facility.
Key documents were missing from the Trump administration's records and the National Archives and Records Administration contacted Trump's legal team earlier this year.
Several boxes of materials were handed over in January. The Justice Department went back to Mar-a-Lago in June to get more documents that had been marked as classified.
According to The Times, agents saw something that alarmed them in recordings of a hallway outside a storage room that they had obtained from Mar-a-Lago.
A witness told the agents that there was more classified material left in the storage room.
The report didn't say what officials saw in the video.
FBI agents searched Mar-a-Lago on August 8 and retrieved boxes containing highly-classified information about the US' nuclear capabilities.
The warrant that the agents were acting on showed that they believed Trump may have violated the Espionage Act when he kept the documents after he left office.
Trump has tried to portray the search as politically motivated, but now claims that the documents kept at Mar-a-Lago had been declassified by him.
He said he cooperated with the DOJ as it tried to get the documents. According to reports, he was given several chances to comply with requests to give back material before the FBI searched his house.
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