archives office inspector general contacted a prosecutor at the department of justice. it informed him that the white house had notified the archives that documents bearing classification markings were identified at the office of the penn biden center for diplomacy and global engagement on november 9th the fbi commenced an assessment consistent with standard protocols to understand where the classified information had been mishandled in violation of federal law. on november 14th, pursuant to section 600 point to be of the special counsel regulations, i assign the u.s. attorney laos to conduct an initial investigation to inform my decision whether to appoint a special counsel. on this number 20th, president biden s personal counsel informed mr. laos that additional documents were identified in the garage of the private residence in wilmington delaware. this morning president biden s personal counselor called mr. lausch and stated that additional document bearing classification
mar-a-lago. just one day after the justice department released the redacted affidavit that led to the search of his florida resort. the u.s. intelligence community is now assessing whether national security was put at risk. and new tonight, a federal judge has scheduled a thursday hearing to consider donald trump s request for a special master to oversee the fbi s review of evidence seized from his florida home. cnn s natasha bertrand is here to break it all down. reporter: pam, we are learning that the direct are of national intelligence confirmed the committee is working together with the justice department to review all relevant documents retrieved from former president trump s foam mar-a-lago. to a letter and oversight committee, her office and doj are conducting a classification review of relevant materials including those recovered during the search of mar-a-lago earlier this month. she also noted that the intel community will conduct an assessment of the potential r
scheduling hearing on the matter for thursday. this, of course, is all coming as the office of national security announced their own review of the documents to determine potential refuse for national security. talking all of this over, and possible developments i wanna bring in washington post josh joce. josh, let s talk about to the latest developments right in tandem with one another that may very well be related at the end of the day. first you have this intelligence assessment which will be ongoing, ranks? the damage possibly done by the documents that were being held in mar-a-lago. you combine that with this possible appointment of this third party, essentially, to look over these documents. if in fact that happens this coming thursday as the judge that, she has the intent to do so. how could one hold up the other if it happens? the former president has repeatedly asked for someone to look through the documents. it has been a couple weeks since he made that request. it
cnn s natasha bertrand joins me now. the director of national intelligence is taking this very seriously. she is and rightfully so, right, because of all the sensitive information we believe was in these documents and we re learning that the director of national intelligence, avril haines has written a letter to the oversight and house intelligence committees telling them that she has begun a classification review and a review of the risk to national security that these kind of loose documents could pose. now, clearly this is kind of an escalation here. we weren t sure whether the intelligence community would be able to see the documents that had been retrieved from mar-a-lago because they are part of an active criminal investigation, and the fbi typically holds very closely any evidence in those probes. but obviously the risk here, the potential risk to national security contained in these documents is just too great for the intel community to not be made aware of what s p
got it back. and our nbc news exclusive inside nasa s historic apollo mission control as america prepares to return to the moon this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening we are literally reading between the lines. the heavily redacted copy of the fbi s mar-a-lago search affidavit made public today, describing the whats but not the whos surrounding classified materials that were removed from the white house and taken to former president trump s florida estate, along with details of the fbi s month s long efforts to recover them and even references to information provided by a significant number of civilian witnesses. in its warrant application, the government saying it believed there were contraband, proofs of crime or other items illegally possessed at the trump estate after the fbi said after 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives earlier this year, it discovered 184 classified items, including 25 top secret documents peter alexander has m