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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 info ....
taken from that search. and it reveals the shear scale of government documents found in that former president s personal home more than a year and a half after he left office. and among what was seized, we know more than 100 documents had classified markings along with more than 11,000 government documents and photographs without the markings. intermingled with gifts and clothing among other things. and keep in mind this is after trump s attorney signed a statement saying everything had been turned over. kara scannell, walk us through what we ve learned. i think it was how many of these documents were, 33 boxes and containers, some from the former president s own personal al office at mar-a-lago and some from the storage room. and there is a distinction there because the storage room is where the fbi was initially told these records were and when they executed the search warrant, they found out that there was more evidence in the former president s office. so if you j ....
so walk us through. hey, fred. this is a big day yesterday. when we got this document. we learned a lot, frankly. and you almost never get this level of transparency. these are documents that the doj wanted to keep secret. thankfully it was released yesterday with some redactions. remember the timeline here. this was the warrant application that they submitted to get permission to search mar-a-lago. that came months after the national archives had already gone to mar-a-lago to retrieve 15 boxes of information that former president trump voluntarily turned over. voluntarily. once they looked in those boxes, they were alarmed with what they found and here is why. look at these numbers, fred. 67 confidential documents. 92 that were marked secret and 25 marked top secret going in ford from the least serious to the most serious. not only that, fred, this affidavit that we finally got to look at yesterday, it gave us new details about the classification markings on some ....
sandra: america reports with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trump s florida home. now it s up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. john: as we like to call it around here, that s what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved the warrant to search mar-a-lago is set to weigh the pros and cons of releasing portions of the affidavit. the judge acknowledged heavy redactions to make the document in essence meaningless. justice department maintaining it could be dangerous to release any part of the affidavit saying it could compromise the investigations. republicans, along with several news organizations are pressing for more information about what prompted the unprecedented search of a former president s home. ....
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 ....