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got him to this point, and why he chose mr. hur. let's get into it. joining me now is nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, so ken, was this all made more urgent by the discovery of even more documents this time in a garage next to the president's corvette, is this why we got a special counsel today? >> that certainly is the sense you get, if there isn't a direct relationship, it certainly had to contribute, because think about what we have here. we have a u.s. attorney in chicago, who has been conducting a review, for weeks, trying to gather the facts and und...

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 neve...

and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that -- make sense of that for us? explain that to us. >> well, i'd love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesn't make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have declassified these documents on his way out the door, this rings a little bit too good to be true. an...

trump empire. and what he found than probably wouldn't shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o'brien discovered that donald trump's much lauded business excellence was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollars. that he wasn't remotely close to being a billionaire. and so in 2005, tim o'brien wrote a book exposing donald trump's prolific lies, and exaggerations about his wealth. donald trump reported by suing time o'brien for defamation a year late...

new information about the fbi's search of donald trump's florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might have talked to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let's go back in time a little. to 2005. more than a decade before donald trump's first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o'brien, the guy o...