six conservative justices, three of whom trump appointed. from looking at the 100 or classified documents taken from his beach club, but they are attempting to get the review of classified documents back before the court-appointed special master which could potentially throw some fan into the gears of the investigation. despite reporting that trump s legal team is looking to soften its tone in this case, the filing today by trump s lawyers are filled with more angry screams against the department of justice. they accuse the department of, quote, feigned concern about purported classified records in order to pin some offense on trump. it is the latest in a series of aggressive and bellicose moves by trump which he s employed for a very long time to move away from scandal of legal quandaries. and it s more evidence of the mind-set of which he approaches the powers of the presidency and the keeping of the nation s secrets. in a media website, trump told his follower, i want my d
we begin our coverage this hour with a detailed new look at materials seized from mar-a-lago. the unsealed inventory reveals more than 48 empty folders with classification banners. it also finds personal items like clippings and clothing mixed in with sensitive documents. sara murray is joining us with more on this. sara, we re learning a lot of new information in this filing. that s right. the justice department acknowledges normally we would not get a glimpse into these kind of materials, but this is no ordinary case. these are extraordinary circumstances involving the former president. reporter: a newly unsealed inventory revealing the trove of materials seized from mar-a-lago, including thousands of government documents and 103 papers marked classified intermingled with magazines, newspapers, press clippings, photos, and articles of clothing. mostly the boxes are pictures and newspapers and shirts and gear and, you know, golf balls. just it s a lot of stuff. you k
what can happen to these classified documents as they pertain to the justice department. if the supreme talk to me about the import here, in terms of the department s investigation and what trump is trying to do. sure. so, the status quo right now, after the appeals court s intervention to remove these documents from the special master, the trump-appointed judge had ordered is that there s one federered access to this 103 document markings. criminal investigators can present them to a grand jury, they can ask witness questions based on their contents, they can pursue criminal charges based on mishandling or obstruction of not returning them. they can try to figure out what happened to the documents that are in the effort folder that have classification banners that were stored in the jumble alongside the ones they were able to recover. so, trump is trying to partially
reporter at the new york times. he told the office of the inspector general he didn t notify anyone at the fbi that he was going to share these memos with anyone. comey violated applicable policies and his employment agreement by failing to either surrender his copies of the memos to the fbi, or to seek authorization to retain them. now once he knew that the fbi had classified portions of memo, comey failed to immediately notify the fbi that he had previously given memo to trent to his attorneys. despite knowledge of that memo d information, comey did not appropriately mark memo 3 with classification banners, markings, or a classification authority block. comey violated executive order 13526, an intelligence community department and fbi policies governing marking of classified information. comey was not authorized to disclose the statements that he attributed to president trump in memo 4, which were relevant to