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documents with classified markings than the diligent search did. donald trump said they were in one storage room and the fbi said it wasn t and they shared this picture of documents into trump s office. they say the trump team delayed at nearly every stage and at one point stop d.o.j. from personally inspecting boxes in the storage room. team trump said the former president declassified the document and the government says there s no proof he did and the actions of his lawyers show they still believed the documents were still classified. team trump said he asserted privilege. he never asserted it until now and he doesn t have it anyway. team trump says the records were his. the government says no, classified or declassified, they belong to the government. team trump said the government inappropriately swept up personal items like his passport. the fbi said no, they were allowed to pick up anything commingling. the governor has already filtered through all of it anyway a ....
unbelievable. those highly sensitive documents, they were all found at mar-a-lago. some of them weren t even in boxes, but rather inside of trump s desk in his office. the doj writing that the fbi seized, quote, three classified documents located in the desk in the 45 office. despite a claim from trump s lawyer that she herself scoured the office and other areas just days before the mar-a-lago subpoena. now all of this is obviously very bad for trump. this filing is the clearest evidence yet that the federal government is also focused on the possibility that trump and his allies were obstructing the probe, and that is a crime. the government suggesting the documents were moved and hidden while they were searching for them. the filings stating, quote, records were likely concealed and removed, adding, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. joining me now on set is donya perry, former assistant united states attorney in the southern d ....
ginsburg. one of the capitol police officers finishing testimony here in washington, taking the stand during the trial of accused rioters. we re live at the courthouse with his emotional testimony and how the defense tried to make its case. i m hallie jackson in washington with a busy news day for you. i want to bring in julia ainsley, congressional investigations reporter for the washington post, along with former u.s. attorney and deputy assistant attorney general harry lipman. let s run through what we are learning from this filing. it s a lot. we ve been talking about it a lot. here it is in one place, right? documents were probably concealed and removed before the fbi search at mar-a-lago. it reveals more than 100 classified documents were found on that day, august 8th, twice as many as mr. trump s lawyers turned over when the fbi first asked them to do. three classified documents were found in mr. trump s office including some so sensitive that investigators n ....
s legal team to respond to the department of justice filing and we are letting you know what it is and what it says. and what it says is a little bit of a sideshow at this point. the one thing we know for sure is that the department of justice is not messing around. they are not messing around with their investigation into the classified documents that phone trump kept at his florida home. last night, they dropped the equivalent of illegal nuclear bomb on the ex president, and it came in the form of this 36 page court filing. now that court filing is a response to trump s request for an independent special master, someone who would come from mar-a-lago, looking for privileged documents separating them up. the doj did not really have to respond at such length and they said we have already gone through the review. they said they have already gone through the details. they chose to even file for extra room to get the page limit from 20 to 40 pages and file this big 36 ....
have a written statement in due course . attorneys for trump compared the documents to an overdue library book, marveling at how the records dispute that has suddenly been transformed into a criminal investigation. trump and his team tried all kinds of defenses, frump falsely saying the top secret documents were his, to then saying that he declassified them. in court today, the doj lawyers were blunt, saying he is no long for president, and because he s no longer the president, he had no right to those documents and that ends the analysis. but we might be seeing a lot more from the search. the judge saying she will unseal the detailed inventory list that was prepared by the doj. and prior to the hearing, trump out on right-wing media attacking the doj once again. they took documents and they put them all over the floor. then they deceptively put out that picture. a lot of people think when you walk into my office i have confidential documents or whatever it may be, c ....