2017, former president obama, you might have forgotten this. the new york post remembered. they shipped 30 million pages of sensitive and possibly classified materials to chicago. all right. and now trump and his advisers have yet a new excuse for why trump kept classified documents. plus, arizona used to give us republicans like john mccain. well, now the fringe is firmly in control of the party there with election deniers and extremists rising to the top. also tonight, an important victory in sali berisha for reproductive rights, but across the country more young girls are being forced to give birth. and fresh off her defeat in the wyoming primary, liz cheney is blasting kevin mccarthy and had some thoughts on the possibility that he could potentially be the next speaker. good evening, everyone. i m tiffany cross in tonight for joy reid and we begin with the ever-evolving excuses from donald trump and his team over why classified documents, including some classi
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
into the basement. there is security, you can t just walk down there. ome certain members of staff could get there and there is only one key. so yes, it is a very limited number of people that have access down there and it was enough to where president trump believed or our team believed that it was secure enough. they asked for one more lock, add another lock, which we did. and then for whatever reason they decided that they still needed to raid the place. now we don t need to fact check that, clint watts, because doj does it for us on june 8th. as i indicated to you, mar-a-lago does not include a secure location tlorzed for the storage of classified information. as such it appears that since the time classified documents were removed from the secure facilities at the white house, and moves to mar-a-lago on or around january 20th, 2021, they have not been handed in an appropriate manner or stored in a appropriate location. we ask that the room at mar-a-lago are the documents have be
listen to what bob small had to say about that, and we ll talk about it on the other side. our team believed that it was secure enough. they asked for one more lock, add another lock which we did and then for whatever reason they decided that they still needed to raid the place. and is it only one or two people had access to that room to your knowledge? that s my understanding. i mean, i would have to check, you know, the maintenance of that area, but my understanding is it s a very small number of people that could get in there. accepts and does it make a difference? the fbi went in there with good reason, i would imagine? does it make a difference that they are saying that only one or two people had access to it despite that apparently being false as well? you know, tiffany. just a small number of random people had access to classified documents in the basement of what is essentially a hotel redding facility.
in jail, if that happens. miles, i want to ask you, there s a reality that the that, in addition to playing this game of the outside-inside strategy where they say one thing and do another thing, which we saw again all the way back to the 2020 election, there s another thing they do, a similar application of that, relates to another issue, which relates to the surveillance tapes and the security in which with which they claim that the classified material was held. that s been core to their argument. i want to go back to the trump lawyer, ms. bobb, again, with laura ingraham on fox news last night talking about the secure room. let s play that. was there a limited number of people who had access to that storage room? it seems like a pretty important room, right, since they ve made such a big deal of it and had the lock on it and so forth. it s a very limited number of people that have access down there, and it was enough to where president trump believed or our team believed tha