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Residence were clearly marked as classified, including documents at the top secret level, according to two people familiar with the matter. the existence of clearly marked classified documents in the trove which has not been previously reported is going to intensify the legal pressure that trump or his staffers could face and raises new questions as to why the materials were taken out of the white house. the first reports of donald trump ripping up documents appeared in 2018 in politico. this week, there have been more eyewitness accounts quoted in news reports describing donald trump ripping ...

Office, staff in the white house residence periodically discovered wads of printed paper clogging a toilet and believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. believed the president had flushed pieces of paper. >> that's vivid. >> it is just stunning the idea that, you know, not keeping records according to norms in the presidential records act and at least the suggestion there, that the former president of the united states was -- knew what he was doing. trying to destroy records. >> right. and look, i think during trump's presidency, a lot of people, maybe including president company wer...

Mar-a-lago last month, leaving the national archives to ask the department of justice to investigate trump's handling of his records. as nbc news reported yesterday. nbc news has not independently verified "the new york times" reporting, and the doj has declined to comment. but questions about how the former president handled his records have come under more scrutiny today. axios was provided with an exclusive look at the hotly anticipated book about trump by "new york times" white house correspondent maggie haberman that deals with how he dealt with documents. while president trump was in off...

>> people are flushing ten times, 15 times, as opposed to once. >> yes, it's all starting to add up. consider the latest revelation from maggie haberman. he writes that trump would repeatedly tear up sensitive white house documents and attempt to flush them down the toilet. white house engineers reportedly found wads of paper clogging the system. i know what you're thinking. the jokes write themselves. did they find the constitution or the long awaited healthcare plan jamming up the pipes? it's as if they were frantically searching for hillary clinton's e-mails. >> if i deleted one e-mail like...

That mean legally? one of the things that made the justice department an extremely interesting place to cover during the trump administration was not just all the weird factual circumstances that seemed to unfold all day every day, but also all the unprecedented legal messes that lawyers at doj had to sift through. and this is one in a long chain of those messes. i think that we can say with total confidence though that it is something that attorneys at the justice department will have to look at closely because otherwise it would just appear to be a pretty jarring double standard. >> neal, sp...