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Attorney General Merrick Garland named a special counsel on Friday to oversee the Justice Departments investigation into the presence of classified documents at former President Donald Trumps Florida estate as well as key aspects of a separate probe involving the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection and efforts to undo the 2020 election.

A week after the midterm elections, The Washington Post reported something that didn't please their Trump-hating subscribers. It turns out leftists were wrong to imply Donald Trump took classified documents to Mar-a-Lago to sell to our enemies. The story by Devlin Barrett and Josh Dawsey was headlined, "Investigators see ego, not money, as Trump’s motive on classified papers."

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Foreign countrys military defenses including nuclear capabilities. do you know or do you have any sense if those documents are related to or even the same documents as the ones youre currently reporting on? >> we dont know that, and thats an important point. were getting different bits of data, different descriptions of whats within this investigation, whats at stake within this investigation, and we really dont know if that foreign military defenses intelligence is about iran or china or some o...

To prosecute the former president? joining us now is the reporter who broke the story, devlin barrett, who covers national security and law enforcement for the washington post. devlin, thank you for joining us tonight. can i first ask you about the timing on all of this? do we have a sense of where in the back and forth between trump and the doj these documents first came to light? was it the first tranche, the second tranche, or the third time the fbi went into mar-a-lago? >> so, there are stil...

Ukrainian civilians. and other words, this is not just information that the u.s. is interested in, a lot of people are interested in, which brings me back to a few essential questions, why would trump remove these from the white house, and keep them, and deny having them repeatedly? and second, does the sensitivity of these documents, combined with the president well-documented obstruction, does that all increase the chances that the doj will seek to prosecute the former president? joining us no...

That the doj is gonna serve and indictment here? >> so, to that question, i spoke to a very senior former justice department lawyer today, who said, this is, sensitivity, extreme sensitivity of these documents is exactly the kind of thing that will be considered an aggravating factor, so prosecutors considering a charge, meaning it counts against him, it is a mark against him, if as they consider whether to file charges in this case. >> devlin barrett, scoop score, bombshells going on. reporter ...