for more minutes, you hear. it thank, you alex. the trump appointed judge, and the appropriately titled case donald j trump against united states of america, gave donald trump just about everything else for. in an order appointing a special master to examine all of the evidence seized by the fbi from donald trump s florida residents. the one good thing in the judge s ruling is naming raymond diary as the special master in the case. he was the only possible special master who was acceptable to both sides, and if raymond diary is, actually does carry out his duties as the special master, he is, by all accounts, an honorable federal judge who would handle his responsibilities in this case honorably, and professionally, and as expeditiously and responsibly as possible. he is the only good thing in this judges ruling, which, of course, should not even include the order of a special master. the judge refused the justice department s request to withhold 100 classified document
sensitive. officials say these were taken from mar-a-lago even after donald trump s team claimed they had handed over everything. i m john berman with brianna keilar. while you were hopefully sleeping the most comprehensive filing yet from the department of justice, explaining what they found at mar-a-lago, why they executed a search warrant. the government says it developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at mar-a-lago and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. and when they searched the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they handed over everything. the filing included this photo, documents that had yellow tabs, red tabs, you can see right there, marked secret, top secret, sensitive. these were taken from containers and they were spread out on the floor by the fbi. this is how the fbi chose to display them
both the search warrant and the inventory receipt. the wall street journal appears to have already seen both. the paper is reporting the fbi took 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including one set of documents marked as tssci documents. that means top secret, sensitive, compartmented information. in other words, some of the most sensitive material the u.s. government says it has. stuff that is only meant to be seen in special government facilities. this would jibe with what multiple outlets have been reporting already, that the d.o.j. was looking for highly classified documents at mar-a-lago and potentially with what the washington post, citing sources familiar, with that knows documents were about nuclear weapons. if so, that would explain the urgency behind the search. nbc has not confirmed the washington post reporting and we have not confirmed the wall street journal reporting but we all could be about to. the warrant and inventory list could be un
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
government had established probable cause of potential violation of three federal statutes. number one relates to the unlawful removal of government material. number two relates to the law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents to obstruct an investigation. number three, potentially the most explosive, the espionage act. the inventory of what the fbi seized includes around 20 boxes of items including four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. the list does not provide any more details about the substance of those documents or what might be in them. in addition, there was binders of photos, signatures of the former president, executive grant of clemency for roger stone and my personal favorite quote, info. re the president of france. can t wait to find out what that is. the vagueness of that inventory will leave people wondering exactly what exactly is in those boxes. there will be room for sp