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someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club. so all of these new developments signal that there may have been additional material there, even after the former president turned over 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. we also have new reporting from cnn this morning that some justice and fbi officials internally have argued that staying silent on this search is harmful to the department, and the public s interest, in part because trump and his allies filled the void with their rhetoric, largely not fact-based on this. let s go to evan perez, he s been following the story. let s begin with the first thread from the wall street journal, which mentions this inside tip that led the feds to do this search. what more can you tell us? reporter: well, that s right, poppy. i m told similarly that the fbi had a witness who told them that there may have been additional classified ....
Person and one misdemeanor count of false information. they pleaded not guilty, trials have been set for later this year, but law enforcement continue to investigate this case, even after those initial charges because they remembered in those early interviews with police, the daughter had scrolled through facebook, through her fake messenger messages to figure out the date of the miscarriage. they wanted to se eed to see th on her phone so they obtained their search warrant, they got their hands on facebook messages between the mother and daughter and other data from the social media company that appeared to make reference to abortion pills as well as burning the evidence. after reviewing the data, authorities added the felony abortion related charges against the mom, the daughter who is now 18 is being charged as an adult at prosecutor s request. now, a spokesperson for meta, facebook s parent company, tweeted on tuesday that, quote, ....
Have offered no evidence to support. so that s where this debate is going on, even inside the department about we know that, you know, we can t say very much about ongoing investigations, but that there is room for the department toed a eat least ass the public that what they did was authorized by a court. all right, evan perez on top of this story, we know you ll stay on it. thank you very much. joining us to discuss this is former federal prosecutor rato miriati. i want to start with where evan left off. where do you fall in this debate in terms of doj, merrick garland, chris wray of the fbi, doing something, maybe going to capitol hill to talk to the loud voices who have been condemning this search at mar-a-lago? well, usually as evan pointed out a moment ago the policy at the justice department is to say very little about ongoing criminal investigations. there is a lot of good reasons ....