boxes. the new york times reports this, quote, during president trump s years in the white house his aides began to refer to the boxes full of papers and odds and ends he carted around with him almost everywhere as the beautiful mind material. it was a reference to the title of a book and movie depicting the life of john f nash jr., the mathematician with schizophrenia played in the film by russell crow. one trump official who spoke anonplacely to describe the situation said while the materials were disorganized trump would notice if someone rifled through them or they were not arranged in a particular way. it was the person said, quote, how his mind works but the times describes trump s organized chaos was nothing new. here s a look at his office at trump tower back in 2015 from an interview with wall street germ. this office is all you, and it s a little bit junky. yeah. you know what? this i just got a few weeks ago. this is from the marine corp. that s the chair f
on this tuesday night. good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle. setback because we have a got a lot to cover. there continues to be more questions than answers about the fbi search of donald trump s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. and missy news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records in that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. former president and his allies have
s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. nbc news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records and that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street journal and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. the former president and his allies have relentlessly attacked the fbi and the doj for conducting the search and they have implied that president biden was behind it which the white house denies. no, the president was not briefed, was
not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr
you know, all those places, it s not just the question of what trump did with it, the division is whether or not other people, possible intelligence services, the russian, the thicheese possibly are targeting not only mar-a-lago but bedminster and trump tower and all these places. so even if trump didn t want to do anything with those documents showing them to people, and we know from the indictment it appears he did at least in the case of the iran document, that there is a risk simply by taking those outside of controlled space. so that didn t stop obviously when he left the presidency because he kept all those documents. i think there s a very reasonable question about whether or not even today the government has back all the classified information trump took with him. and so if i m in the intelligence community, not only have i been busy doing a risk assessment of all the documents being recovered to figure out what needs to be mitigated, i ve got this deep, uneasy feeling in