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crucial witnesses in any of these trump probes. im talking about the man atop the white house during the january 6th insurrection, and he was chief of staff during that period, chaotic and otherwise of trumps departure when we know the secretive classified documents were taken, stolen, or mishandled. the man you see on the screen is your witness, mark meadows. the "times" has just crossed that news in the last few minutes. we have that news. weve also got this video, providing a rare l...

hosted by alex witt will start at 5:00 a.m. eastern. that is going to do it for me. "deadline white house" begins right now. hi there, everyone. happy friday. its 4:00 in new york. donald trumps once loyal attorney general bill barr recently said that the classified documents probe was the most threatening to trump, and brand new reporting in "the new york times" reveals why that may be the case. "new york times" out with some blockbuster new reporting that shows that special couns...

oversee all aspects of justice department. >> paula reid is following all of this. paula, lets just start with these five additional pages of classified material that were found at the presidents home in delaware. what do you know about that. >> reporter: these were found uncovered at the presidents wilmington home. lets take a step back. right now there are approximately 20 known documents of classified markings have been uncovered at two different locations connected to the president...

flint, michigan. up first just before midnight justice department legal filing and what it tells us about the case against donald trump. the 36-page filing is full of critical new details. they include three classified documents in desks inside the former presidents office. more than 100 documents in 13 boxes with classification markings inside the former presidents residence. some of those documents so secret the fbi and d orkoj persl charged with reviewing them needed to get additi...

also, trump attorney jim trusty joins us to talk about the parallels between what happened when hillary clinton was investigated for mishandling documents and the trump raid. the doj explains how many documents they have went through that breaking today. first up, back to school day for one of mine and probably many of years as well across this country. some covid restrictions are lingering around certain corners of the country and parents not happy about it. in our nations capitol, so...

house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. theyre also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. >> theyve, youve been talking to local ...

telling cnn authorities did not believe that the former president and his aides had returned all the documents, and of the materials that had been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i want to bring in sarah murray, covering the story for us. and state attorney for palm beach county, florida. good to see you both. we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions with of withheld materials, what else can you tell us? >> part of what made this perplexing to the people in donald...

and president trump said he wasnt given any heads up that the search was happening. >> how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? >> i didnt have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. >> sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trumps attorneys. lets bring ...

well, we now know why fbi agents searched former u.s. president donald trumps mar-a-lago home, and were learning details about some of the items they took. according to a warrant that was unsealed on friday agents were looking for evidence of possible crimes including potential violations of the espionage act related to gathering, losing or destroying u.s. defense information. a property receipt also unsealed on friday reveals that fbi agents recovered 11 sets of classified documents i...

Sovereign wealth fund is run by the crown prince. so this is speculation, but if you are thinking about a motive, right, for president trump potentially to be holding back documents, not providing documents, theres a number of things you could think are possible. at worst, he potentially wanted to share classified information with the saudis. he could have been holding back information as sort of blackmail to make sure that they come through and host golf tournaments at his golf resorts. that is...