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as always, a great show. this is don lemon tonight, and i am laura coates sitting in for donovan. there are big developments on the fbi search for documents and former president donald trump s marlowe go home. the wall street journal reporting tonight that an informant tipped off federal investigators that they were more likely to have more classified documents at the property at the national archives. they took away 15 boxes of material earlier this year. an informant amar legault? cnn has not confirmed this part of the story, but we have reported investigators believe down trump has not returned all documents. they also believe that trump representatives are not being entirely honest with them. trump, meanwhile, since to be hiding behind a 5th amendment, which is his right to do, and he did so today during today s admission with new york attorney generals office, who is investigating the trump organization. i will give you my take on that, a little later in the show. ....
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the cour ....
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are con ....
Anything like that during the hillary clinton saga. this was you took the documents to an location and continually to willfully detain them despite the fact you were supposed to give them back over. that s what puts him in criminal liability. interesting fact. we turn to you, laura, because i love your flame, laura. and i want to ask you about the political implications as well. tying trump possibly to the mishandling, the possession and his counsel potentially confirmed, yes, he had them and they may be overdue library books. what does it mean politically? because you have to remember much of the january 6th hearings. are the republicans following along? republicans seem to be rallying around at least a strong faction of republicans rallying around the former president. but politically you d have to think this would harm republicans running in swing states across the country simply because of the fact we saw what happened in 2020 where a lots of ....
But the fact that he was ignorant to the protocol and process, does that help him? not really. because the relevant provision that they re referencing under the espionage act only indicates it matters if you re willfully retaining the documents. it s not the gross negligence or anything like that that we thought about during the hillary clinton saga. you took these documents to an unauthorized location and continued to willfulfully retain them despite the fact you were supposed to turn them back over. given the potential information we have about potential obstruction, that s what puts them in criminal liability. i turn to you, laura, because i love your name, laura, and i want to ask you about the implications here politically as well. do all of the developments that we re talking about, tying trump possibly to the mishandling, at least the possession. and his counsel has essentially confirmed that yes, he had them there. they may have been like overdue library books. what does th ....