tell us what else you ve learned. i mean, i think it s significant especially the photos yout discussed last hou that show just how this was organized. i think a key part of this is essentially them not trusting the trump team because after they had that initial grand jury subpoena that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump lawyer, name is redacted in this latest filing, so weis don t know based on the filing who it was, but has been reported publicly about this trump lawyercl said there was n responsive documents left. lo and behold when they went and executed the search warrant there were allec these document left. so there s still information we don t know about how they got the source of that information. but the key part of it is that they were right. we can see by the product what they were able to seize from donald trump s mar-a-lago facilityag down there that the information they had about himt continuing to hold onat to classified informatio
four years during the trump administration. it was a very leaky white house. you said just a couple minutes ago earlier tonight you were talking to some people from trump s inner circle. i want to read a tweet from our colleague and legal analyst katie fang where she writes after reading the doj s response tonight, i m even more intrigued about how the fbi found out there were more classified records at mar-a-lago, including outside of the storage room, all of which led to the search warrant being obtained. she ends with who ratted on trump to the feds? for you, as a reporter, who has covered trump for all these years, is that the next thread you re going to try to pursue after reading these 36 pages, is the next thing you re going to look to report on how on earth the department of justice, why would they know to go back and get this search warrant? why would they keep pushing? well, it is certainly intriguing. for sure a lot of reporters will
justice piece of this that you and i have talked about really demonstrates intent. that s such an important thing because it s hard to prove intent. andrew knows this from his white collar work. it s hard to get the ceo. but when the ceo lies or shreds documents or misleads investigators, that suddenly becomes easier. there s still a whole bunch of work for investigators to do and a whole bunch of people the fbi will need to interview, including possibly, quite likely, mr. trump s lawyers in this very case. i agree with andrew that they have at least become witnesses. but all that said, stephanie, he s not a president. and those special rules don t apply. he is now a former president. and he has the same authority as you and i. he can t retain classified information. he doesn t even have a security clearance. the records are not his. they belong to the national archives and the american
only from xfinity. nah. unbeatable internet. made to do anything so you can do anything. welcome back. you are watching special coverage. i m stephanie ruhle. we are reviewing the department of justice s 36-page document that they have submitted to the judge, their response to former president trump s request to have a special master, a third
mar-a-lago. trump has a whole lot of other properties, trump tower, bedminster, the place up in west chester. do we think those other residences of trumps are going to get searched any time soon. reason to believe he would only keep all this jazz down there? there s no indication of that so far, but i wanted to point out one part in the timeline i think is important. one thing we learned in addition to this filing is just how many classified documents were turned over voluntarily, quote unquote, in response to the subpoena that was issued in may and was acted upon in early june. remember, there s this initial box, initial 15 boxes turned over to the national archives. whole bunch of classified documents that weren t supposed to be there sitting aside the fact he wasn t supposed to have any of those documents to begin with. fast forward five months down the line to may, may of this year, when they issued that grand jury subpoena in response to that grand jury subpoena, the president s