forthcoming with investigators, or both. sources telling the times, investigators still are seeking more surveillance footage from mar-a-lago, a sign officials are looking into how the classified material was handle while improperly stored at the former president s estate. according to the times, the fbi declined to comment. president trump s spokesman did not immediately respond. joining us now, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official, chuck rosenberg. good morning to you both. ken, i ll start with you. nbc news is working to confirm all of this, a blockbuster story dropped last night by the new york times . the top line, the 300 documents. 300 of them taken by donald trump, according to the times reporting out of the justice department, is a pretty staggering number when you consider all the excuses donald trump has made. well, he just slipped some things into his briefcase, or they were planted by the f
do once they leave administrations, and what he s been doing since leaving the white house? what is his day job? is he caught up now in the legal investigation into all of those boxes? is he somebody the doj is wanting to question? i can t speak to who the doj is going after. those are precisely the issues that they re working very hard to keep the public from knowing. i have no evidence that he is. what kash patel has been doing since he left the government has been working with donald trump. he is a director of the company that owns truth social, which is trump s effort to replace twitter as a conservative social media platform. he has become increasingly a spokesman and defender of trump s prerogatives as a former president, dealing with classified material. and he continues to make the basic arguments republicans have been making since 2017, that the russia investigation was ginned
can, quote, express sympathy for former president trump s claims, the 2020 votes were rigged. in pennsylvania, quote, candidate to embrace elections fraud allegations won races this months to become a local voting judges and inspectors. and in colorado, where 2020 election skeptics are urging their followers on conservative social media platform to apply for jobs and election offices. because we administer our elections locally in the united states, folks on the frontline, like this, will be well positioned to mess around with stuff. to attempt to subvert the election result the next time around. it is all becoming so ominous to state election officials are now sounding the alarm. and in colorado, the senator said that the attacks right now are no longer about 2020. they are about 2022 and 2024. it s about chipping away at confidence and chipping away at the reality of safe and secure elections. the next time there is a close election, it will be easier to