and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that make sense of that for us? explain that to us. well, i d love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesn t make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have declassified these documents on his way out the door, this rings a little bit too good to be true. and certainly the president has declassification authority, he can do it with far less need to dot the i s and cross the t s than someone else could. but if for instance i had walked out of my office with tss, ci information which we re being told what was recovered in the execution of this search warrant, it is clear that if i had refused to turn it over or tried to keep it hidden saver a request was
he now has obliged and will make some remarks. let s go to caitlyn polanz. the former president can clear up a lot of these accusations. he has a documented inventory of what was taken from his home on monday as part of this search. and he thus far has decided not to disclose that. that s right. really we have heard mostly the trump team, his lawyers, himself trying to fill in the blanks about why they believe there was this search of mar-a-lago. we ve done our best to report out, but we are able to say there are national security concerns, there were concerns that the people at mar-a-lago weren t being entirely forthcoming about what was there, that there was a need to go back in after a subpoena with this search to get boxes. but i wanted to highlight one of the things that director wray said in this letter, he said when all the facts come out, we stuck to the process, and the process here, that is a process that s in court. so the reason that trump is able to go out ther
motorcade arrived at the new york attorney general s office for a deposition. we are getting new details about the fbi search. the former president s lawyer said trump s legal team was in talks with the justice department about records stored at mar-a-lago in the spring. she added the search warrant indicated an investigation io the handling of classified material. they said that they were looking for classied documents. evidence of a crime of classified documents goes. two sources familiar say fbi agents arrived monday morning at 9:00 a.m.nd left around 30 p.m. the sect service was given a heads up. trump called the search unnecessary as well as politically motivated but didn t provide any evidence. joining us is justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. ken, whacan we expect from the former president s deposition today? that s actually a bit of an interesting mystery because there is this is a civil investigation into donald trump s business practices and
understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former president s home. sandra: one part reading after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises. john: david spunt is live at the justice department, 38 pages in total released in regard to this, including some attachments. so far we are getting an idea what the documents were or at least the category in which they fell. but we are not getting a lot in terms of the why they thought it was so urgent to go in there and unprecedented fashion and the fbi conduct a raid of mar-a-lago. david: john and sandra, that is the detail we have wanted to know since we first learned agents were going in
the fbi search at trump s mar-a-lago home still the biggest story in the country. a big development over an hour ago regarding the search al mar-a-lago. the judge who approved the search warrant will hear argument as 1:00 p.m. thursday about whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while the former president wants it released. while we re focused on the former president s legal troubles, he s not the only one in the trump orbit facing legal entanglements. rudy giuliani is now a target in georgia s 2020 election probe and is scheduled to go before a special grand jury tomorrow. another longtime trump ally, allan weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in a tax case tied to the manhattan das office. we just learned former white house lawyer eric hirsh man who testified before the house january 6th committee has been subpoenaed in the doj s insurrection probe. trump acknowledged the temperature needs to be to