welcome to politicsnation. tonight s lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last week s unprecedented fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the justice department in june. claiming that all classified materials had been returned to the government. that s according to reporting from the new york times. according to four people with knowledge of that document. nbc news has not seen the document and is working to confirm the reporting. but today, top democrats in the house are calling for a damage assessment of those documents. trump s defense dubious claims of executive privilege and preemptive declassification. meanwhile, summon law enf
going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, don t even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. it s a problem. would isn t arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trump s final days and office led the fbi to his florida resort. trump was so convinced, so convinced he had won the 2020 election, they flat out refused to pack up the white house until the very last minute. one source tells us that everything in a box was dumped into a room at mar-a-lago. security video of that room eventually obtained by the doj through subpoena. a person familiar told the new york times the footage showed boxes moving in and out after the doj had been in touch. as for trump himself, he