return dozens of highly classified documents, this despite several requests over several months. the justice department also released its most visual piece of evidence and you re looking at it, that is a photo showing documents with the highest classification markings laid out there by the fbi, officials say those documents were recovered from a container that trump kept at his mar-a-lago home. since january, the u.s. government has recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. the justice department says three of those classified documents were not in boxes in that storage facility. they were actually found in former president trump s desk. so let s begin this morning with all of that news and this stunning filing from the doj, with our correspondent kara scannell. this is why doj needed 40 pages. they needed twice what the court said they could have because they had to apparently lay all of this out. yeah, good morning, jim and poppy. part of the objecti
filing. all right. let s beginning this morning with kara scannell. kara, these are stunning developments. walk us through the key the key revelations that tells us so much. yeah, i mean, what we ve really learned from this, from the department of justice filing, they say when they went and executed this search warrant at mar-a-lago three weeks ago they recovered twice as many classified documents than what the former president s legal team had given them pursuant to a grand jury subpoena in june. so this all goes right to the department of justice s position that the trump team has not been cooperative with this investigation, they re really trying to put forth a counternarrative him. they say 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 certifi
doj filing that we saw last night. but, you re right, over the past 12 hours, including yesterday, former president donald trump posted more than 60 times on his own truth social, social media platform, which is an unusually high volume for him. a lot of these were anti-government posts, posts that were critical of federal investigators, specifically the fbi. but there were also some others that were aimed at his political opponents, including joe biden, and some republicans like mitch mcconnell, as well. now, the former president has been up again this morning, on truth social, criticizing the fbi once more and also specifically taking aim at these photos that were released of documents that were scattered across the floor at mar-a-lago, and included in that filing last night as evidence of the haphazard way that he was storing some of these materials including highly sensitive and
obliterates that argument. i think the thing that stands out to me most from the language in this filing is they have gone to great pains to show there has not only has there not been cooperation from the trump team, there has been allegedly obstruction and deliberate obfuscation. so the affidavit or affirmation signed by the custodian of records who we believe is the attorney, christina bobb, it couldn t be more inaccurate. they say they conducted a diligent search, they say they recovered any and all documents described by the subpoena, and that no copies of those documents have been retained, we now know that s absolutely not true. so you can understand, you know, originally we were, like, why did the government feel there was such urgency to take this extreme step of searching the former president s residence? well, it is perfectly obvious now. it wasn t a rush to judgment, it was only at the conclusion of a year and a half worth of back
need to start moving people, do you need to start removing technologies and caroline, i have to ask you this quickly, because there is evidence here, but we have seen in trump s history for years evidence of obstruction or at least the allegation i m curious what is practice is with a former president, i suppose we haven t faced something like this before, or public officials, what standard has to be met, a higher standard for a justice department to make a decision to indict? yeah, i mean, this goes to the overarching question we discussed with respect to january 6th and this investigation as well. merrick garland has big decisions to make in terms of prosecutorial discretion. obviously this is a political question. i would note that the doj did a good job in the last pages of their submission, they read the room with respect to the indication that the judge was going to grant the application for a special master, and they laid out really tight parameters for that appointment.