involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs, among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january whe
this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv
hi there, everyone, it s 4:00 in the east. more than 300 classified documents were found at mar-a-lago by federal authorities over the course of the past year. that s according to a stunning brand new piece of reporting by the new york times. let that sink in. hundreds of classified documents, some of them containing the country s most sensitive national security secret were just hanging out at donald trump s private golf club in south florida. it is just one of the many stunning new details on the efforts by federal officials to retrieve trump s records, and the criminal probe that now looms over the disgraced twice impeached ex-president thanks to brand new reporting from the times ask a newly released letter from the national archives from trump s attorneys. that letter was sent back in may. it was first posted last night by a conservative journalist who was named by trump as his representative to the archives. the new york times reports