the documents had been returned. it also including this new photo showing documents with classified markings laid out on a carpet. some of them found in a desk in the former president s personal office. the filing also says some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and justice department attorneys needed additional security clearances to look at them. doj also says trump s request for a special master is quote unnecessary and would significantly harm governmental interests including national security interests. the former president has until 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight to respond. a federal judge in florida will hold a hearing tomorrow on his request for a special master. with us now to take a closer look, nbc news homeland security continue julie ainsley, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say
but along with the photo came a series of explosive new details. the doj claims there is evidence that the documents seized were, quote, likely concealed and removed before the fbi search on august 8th and, quote, efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the filing also disclosed that three classified documents recovered during the fbi search were located in the desks in the 45 office and the doj even laid out why it says it cannot trust information that came from trump s team saying its finding, quote, cast serious doubt on the claim that there had been a diligent search for records. now donald trump s legal team has until 8:00 p.m. tonight to respond to all of this and it will come to a head tomorrow. that is when a judge has scheduled a hearing on the special master request. joining me right now, a great team, we have ken dilanian, josh dossy, and law professor from the university of alabama, and columnist for the boston globe. kim and joyce ar
the target of the georgia special grand jury investigative ef ef efforts to overturn the 2020 election. his lawyer confirmed that to cnn saying that a prosecutor from the fulton county d.a. s office informed him of that today. giuliani is expected to go before the same grand jury on wednesday, and it s not clear if he will invoke the 5th amendment. giuliani met with georgia state legislature three times in december 2020, this is right after the election, and during those meetings, he spread conspiracy theories about widespread irregularities and fraud and also the fallacy that two atlanta election workers smuggled fake biden ballots in with suitcases. none of that was true. let s bring in former federal prosecutor to discuss, your view of the legal exposure that giuliani faces, he now obviously is a target of this investigation. that s very big news, bigger than it might seem at first glance, victor. the term target has a very specific meaning in the context of criminal i
the promises to be searched his further described as a resort club and the residents. it is described as a mansion with approximately 58 bedrooms, 38 on the 17 acre estate. the locations to be searched include the 45 office all storage rooms and all other rooms or areas within the premises used or available to be used by the former president of the united states and his staff and in which boxes or documents could be stored and quote. it just kind of seems like anywhere. that is of course the federal authorities describing former president donald trump s mar-a-lago estate in the search warrant of the property that they executed on monday. today a federal judge in florida unsealed the document after the former president and the doj decided against disputing its publication. i want to pause for a second here. you have heard this many times over the past few years. we are truly living in historic and unprecedented time here in u.s. history. but think about where we are right no