you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at mar-a-lago, agents arriving in the late morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that you commonly have seen at searches. remember
you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at
donald trump s palm beach club according to the wall street journal. the journal says that that s what prompted the search this week of mar-a-lago. cnn hasn t confirmed the journal s report, but we previously reported that there were months of discussions between the trump lawyers and justice department prosecutors and that in june justice and fbi officials paid a visit to mar-a-lago to discuss possible classified documents that were still being stored there despite the government s view that they belong at the national archives. meanwhile, inside the justice department there is frustration that the department has so far said nothing about the search. while trump and his allies have portrayed it as a siege and suggested without providing any proof that the fbi may have planted evidence. attorney general merrick garland has said that the department doesn t comment on ongoing investigations in part to protect the rights of people under investigation and who haven t been charged. it s a