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again. i'm stephanie ruhle, and we start this evening with breaking news that says donald trump was warned late last year he could face serious legal trouble if he did not return white house records taken to mar-a-lago. the new york times reports that warning came from one time white house lawyer eric herschmann. you probably remember herschmann's very colorful testimony to the january 6th committee. he talked about his efforts to try to stop attempts to keep trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. the times reports herschmann, quote, sought to impress upon mr. trump the seri...

absurd claims. since the fbi searched donald trump's private residence and members club back in august. the ex-president declassified all the documents that he could declassify them if he wanted to, quote, even by thinking about it. it is a claim that has been repeated over and over and over again by trump and his allies. the disgraced ex-president mentioned it in public and the media appearances so many times. not one single time has that claim been made in a court of law. now new reporting suggests that the question of whether there is an a proof that he declassified the documents ...

support of ohio republican senate candidate one j.d. vance. at one point, trump spoke over a song that was all but identical to an anthem of the qanon movement. attendees responded, this is real, guys, that picture's real. they responded with that one finger salute you see on your screen. "new york times" reports this, quote, it was the first time in the memory of some trump aides that such a display had occurred at one of his rallies. the song played at the rally was a song called "mirrors" and it was selected for use at a video trump paid at the cpac meeting and posted on his socia...

but along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that came from trump's team saying its finding, quote, cast serious doubt on the claim that there had been ...

weekend. welcome to "the beat," i'm katie phang in for ari melber. the new detailed inventory list of property the feds seized from trump's mar-a-lago resort. i have it here. this is it. and tonight i can report what the feds took from mar-a-lago, from the 45 office, all storage rooms, and all rooms or areas where documents could be stored. but the most alarming detail is what was not found. the doj claiming 48 folders that were marked classified were empty. raising the prospect that some of the united states government's most closely guarded secrets could remain unaccounted for. but...