weaponization or political targeting, and we ll be aggressive at issuing pardons. some of these cases some people may have a technical violation of the law, but if there are three other people who did the same thing but just in a context like blm and they don t get prosecuted at all, that is uneven application of justice. special counsel jack smith is wrapping up his investigation into trump for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. and the department is planning to announce a charging decision in the days or weeks after memorial day. that s according to sources familiar with the matter who told that to bloomberg news. it comes as the washington post reports that two of trump s mar-a-lago employees moved boxes of papers one day before fbi agents and a prosecutor visited trump s home to enforce a subpoena and retrieve classified documents they believed that he was storing there. sources familiar with the matter
recent months after prosecutors successfully pierced his attorney-client privilege back in march. that decision was made by a judge who found that trump knowingly misled his own attorney about what classified documents he possessed. doj has not commented on the new reporting. in a statement to nbc news, a trump spokesperson called the department s investigation, quote, a politically motivated witch hunt against the former president. we ll have much more of this in the weeks ahead. still ahead, russia s wagner mercenary group says it s pulling out of bakhmut. what it means for moscow s army and the state of the war in ukraine. plus democratic senator bob menendez is the focus of a new investigation for expensive gifts he allegedly received from a new jersey business. those stories and a check on sports and weather when we come right back. check on sports and weather when we come right back
seized the president s picture books, handwritten notes and declassified documents. and does it s not just unprecedented by unnecessary. that s a wrote to the wall street journal from a trump spokesperson. and i guess we have it as well, obviously, cue the graphic there. significant pushback here and one thing i think that we have to focus on is the process of declassification. how it works, how it would be marked, how it would be noted before he left the white house in that chaotic time before the inauguration. how that all went down. and if there is a paper trail, i think the doj is in a tight spot here because to justify this level as we have been talking about of a public move on a former president s residence who could be the political opponent of the current president in
news, agents took approximately 20 boxes of items from the premises. bret, i know you ve had a chance to do more reporting here. we would like to get back to you. bret: jonathan points rightly to i think where everybody should be focused. t.s.s.c.i., top secret secured compartmentalized material, that is the highest of the material, and where the nuclear documents could be. we don t have that obviously, but also don t have, and we hate saying this, we don t have the back-up, the affidavit which lays out why they were looking in this place, why they got to that, how the magistrate was convinced it s urgent enough to do the search warrant. a statement has been released by a trump spokesperson who says the biden administration is in obvious damage control after their botched raid where they