evidence emerging today in the guardian that in the crucial time between doj s subpoena and may of last year and the meeting between investigators and trump s legal team the following month, trump or his aides might have hidden classified documents from donald trump s own defense attorney from that stunning new reporting. quote, donald trump s lawyer told associates he was waved off from searching the former president s office where the fbi later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property. that lawyer, evan corcoran, recounted that several trump aides told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the white house at the end of trump s presidency ended up being deposited. corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. he then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. according to an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the fbi found 27
of them sucked less than the other, and those were doors were checked. but i think that decision will stand the test of time. you look at disastrous how trump was for ukraine, for democratic allies and people who think he would have handed he basically said it in the town hall the war would end in two days. when you think everything trump has wrought do you think i could have waited two hours or two week snz. you don t want the fbi director making decisions on who he or god willing she, who someone thinks should be elected president of the united states. i want someone to be elected separate from that based on the annals of the institution. do you want a future fbi director to say you know what i
trumpist republicans, but within that tribe itself. and so that creates a very different and somewhat unpredictable dynamic because we don t know exactly how it will play out because you have trump loyalists who are suddenly attacking other former trump loyalists in various different ways. and there is also a point at which a movement becomes a fight over the spoils. right now that audience are the spoils and there is a lot of media vultures who would like a piece of that. so interesting. i think you re right. there is no more fight between pro trump and anti-trump republicans. it is between pro trump and more trump republicans. it will be fun to watch. mike, thank you for your reporting. joyce vance, donny deutsch, charlie sykes, thanks for starting us off. when we come back, ron desantis is trying to score political points whenhe bashes the
and just imagine where we would be in 2022 and 2023 if he had done that, if the united states had left nato. and if he is elected president again, i think that we can expect that and i think that the world does expect that. and i think that that scenario will be watched very carefully not just in europe but in the indo-pacific in and around by taiwan and by the chinese. if we don t defend ukraine, they will assume that we ll never be able to defend taiwan or indo-pacific andchina will have a field day. so way to guarantee that is undermine support for nato. how much of this resonates in the military? trump and desantis are anti-democratic candidates. simple clear declaration. they seek to be leaders of autocratic movements. trump would have refused to affirm, he wanted to leave nato
like criminal developments in the obstruction case, but someone said to think of it this way what is inside the boxes is the heart of the mishandling of classified documents case. and the moving of the boxes, the physical relocation of the boxes is at the heart of the obstruction of justice question. can you just take me inside what you think jack smith already knows about the first question, what was inside the boxes, and the second, the moving of the boxes? well, since they were gone when corcoran looked through them, i think he thinks, you know, there are 100 extra documents found when they did the search, and i would say that s the big heart but also what was in trump s desk the 27 some documents maybe even classified maybe he even showed to other people. smith is knowing, look, this stuff was here. thigh lied to us and told it wasn t when they were under subpoena. how did that happen? for example, did trump tell