look in the storage records and then they find these three files, three classified documents, in trump s desk drawer. so certainly laying out the case that this was justified. they also on this issue because this is really about whether a special master and third party can review these documents, they re saying these aren t trump s documents to review, they belong to the american people. there is no executive privilege. trump never asserted executive privilege at any point along the process until the search warrant was executed. they re saying that, you know, to permit a special master to get involved at this point could cause unnecessary significant harm because there s also a you have the intelligence agencies to see what was in these documents and whether there is any potential harm to sources and methods. thank you for helping us just begin to understand what s in here. a lot that we did not know yesterday at this time. thank you so much. and joining us now is cnn legal and
trump s team had given them pursuant to subpoena. that s key because doj is saying they needed to execute this search warrant. they believe that there was possible obstruction of justice, they think that documents were likely removed. just to focus back on that classified number, that twice as many documents. here is what they say in their filing that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform calls into serious question the representations made in the june 3rd certification and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. i mean, part of this document is to counter the narrative that trump has put out that he has been cooperative, that they have done everything, that he has offered up everything. doj is saying, no, in fact, they found twice as many documents, that they believe that documents were likely concealed and remo
more than a year because they are presidential records. now, also to the legal arguments here of, you know, should a special master be appointed. prosecutors are saying these aren t trump s records, these records belong to the u.s. government, the u.s. people and there s not grounds to do that here. i mean, it s a very detailed filing and it gives us some new insights into the whole timeline in the process here that we normally wouldn t see in an argument over a special master. this is really the first time that the department of justice has written extensively since the warrant was executed, everything that s been released to this point has been the warrant itself, the redacted affidavit, this is doj telling us what they found. if we can put the picture up again so people can see how the fbi laid out the documents on the floor. ellie, first give us your top line about this release. it s doj strikes back. clearly doj had something on their minds, something was bugging them and they
something that based on the justice department s claim they hadn t done. it seems like they re hinting they were lied to by president trump s attorneys. i don t think they re hinting. they describe in the heading of the document that they re describing, quote, obstructive conduct. i was being lawyerly and charitable. lawyerly and charitable. yeah, not even a hint for sure there. berman. i want to bring in former deputy director of the fbi and cnn senior law enforcement analyst andrew mccabe. if we can i just want to put up on the screen so people can see it again the photo that was released as part of this file, again, in appendices where you can see laid out on the floor some of the documents taken from mar-a-lago, you can see in red those are marked secret sci and the other ones top secret sci. as one who has had access to these types of documents before, to see all of this laid out like
to be a wide variety of choices, and donald trump will not get the nomination because he lost the house, lost the senate, lost georgia. here s the thing. there are too many people in the republican primary, right? this is what happened last time. they ll split the trump vote. i don t buy that. trump has a chunk of the party, right? it s like 30%. and he s not in the rearview mirror in alabama or pennsylvania. everybody was just trump, trump, trump in alabama. look at what happened in pennsylvania. i don t think he s in the rearview mirror. he s not in the rearview mirror yet. that s wishful thinking at this point. the base is still enamored of him, and trumpism is still strong. so even if you have candidates who aren t trump, you ll have candidates who are running on trumpism as well. the republicans understand there s enough of them that will never vote for him, right? sure. if he only had 47%.