developed evidence that government records likely were concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. it goes on to state three classified documents that were not located in boxes, but rather were located in the desks in the 45 office were also sealed, end quote. the doj also included a picture of the documents seized during the fbi s search of the former president s florida estate, several of which clearly are marked top secret. in all, the filing says more than 100 unique classified documents were seized. some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and doj attorneys needed additional security clearance just to review them. the doj filing reveals the fbi recovered twice as many classified documents than were returned by the trump team, casting doubt over their claim that there had been a diligent search following the grand jury subpoena in may. joining us is peter baker and ryan riley. ryan
to the government. that s what we learned more details about last night on top of all this other information, was that there were 17 documents in there that were marked top secret, 38 unique documents that bore classification markings. that s an interesting component of this because after in response to this grand jury subpoena trump officials turned over a bunch of documents they weren t supposed to have, setting aside they weren t supposed to have any presidential records. they turned over a bunch of documents that were top secret. even after that, two months later, lo and behold after the fbi actually searched mar-a-lago, they found all of these additional documents and all of these including in trump s own office. included in this filing last night was the detail that some of those documents were found directly next to those passports. the passports thing is interesting because there s a