do, to come up with a plan and a deadline. the justice department is proposing october 17th as a deadline. trump s team said, 90 days or whatever the judge decides, they quibble a little bit over how they should handle these. of course, the justice department wants to get these classified documents out of there immediately, and off the table for any of the special master review. and trump s team once the special master to look at those things on the argument that, just because they bear classification marks, it doesn t mean they remain classified. so, it is sort of a subtle way of suggesting that perhaps, president trump declassified them, without making that claim in a sworn statement that gets filed with the court. so, we ll see if he continues to maintain that argument. but they are advancing the ball, which i think everybody had expected and hopefully would do. barb, do you know much about any of these four people, you say there are serious people. but let s look at a lean cannon
military aid, and seven documents with top secret classification marks. those are just some of the items recovered in that one single box in trump s office, box number two. investigators also found articles of clothing, gift items, magazines, trump passports, all jumbled together alongside top secret and confidential documents. that is not just, like a bad housekeeping. the fact that these items were all found together is meaningful. the fact that classified documents were intermingled with the presidents personal items ties their unauthorized position to mr. don t trump personally, which certainly doesn t look good. and neither does this. in a written brief a company accompanying the inventory today the justice department also just how this is an active criminal investigation. quote the investigative team will continue to use and evaluate this east materials as it takes further investigative steps such as through additional witness interviews and a grand jury practice.
this detailed inventory lists the justice departments likely evidence. it is not some random list of items found in one of trump s closets that, whoops oh yeah, that did not belong there. these are items that a magistrate judge in florida authorized the doj to seize from trump s home, because they potentially reflected evidence of crimes, plural. remember this photo we got tuesday night? we learn from the inventory list today that the items marked to a in the picture we re actually part of a box that included 99 magazines and other press clippings, 43 empty folders with classified banners, 28 empty folders remarked return to staff secretary military aid, and seven documents with top secret classification marks. those are just some of the items recovered in that one single box in trump s office, box number two. investigators also found articles of clothing, gift items, magazines, trump
and seven documents with top secret classification marks. those are just some of the items recovered in that one single box in trump s office, box number two. investigators also found articles of clothing, gift items, magazines, trump passports, all jumbled together alongside top secret and confidential documents. that is not just, like a bad housekeeping. the fact that these items were all found together is meaningful. the fact that classified documents were intermingled with the presidents personal items ties their unauthorized position to mr. don t trump personally, which certainly doesn t look good. and neither does this. in a written brief a company accompanying the inventory today the justice department also just how this is an active criminal investigation. quote the investigative team will continue to use and evaluate this east materials as it takes further investigative steps such as through additional witness interviews and a grand jury practice. the justice department is any
extraordinary and unusual this case is, including that the fbi actually waited to look inside these boxes. they spent a lot of time going back and forth with the trump team on this. what do you know? they did. and as someone who s covered the justice department for many years, what stands out to me is that gap in time. it was the criminal referral in february it says that launched this investigation from the fbi. but it wasn t until three months later in may that the fbi did a preliminary review according to page 17 of this redacted affidavit. what it seems like from reading through this, that is when this investigation really escalated because when they looked through these 15 boxes, 14 of the 15 it says had classified information, some with some of the highest classification marks. so that clearly raised the alarm bells for the fbi. it then went to visit mar-a-lago in june. and then of course the search warrant was executed not long after that over the summer.