brief, revealing new details. this filing was 19 page es. it did acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago earlier this month. but essentially, it says it wasn t a big deal. says quote, the proported initiation for the probe was the alleged discovery of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. but this discovery, end quote, was to be fully anticipated given the very nature of presidential records. simply put, the notion that presidential records would contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. this is part of a bid by the trump team to have a special master appointed. a judge holds a hearing on that tomorrow. and this comes on the heels of the very serious claims laid out in the justice department s 36-page filing, including another quote here, evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at the trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct
this former oan host really the best a former president of the united states could do. meanwhile the republicans can t break with trump though we re seeing cracks in the blind loyalty. we begin the the reidout are a food note. in an overnight filing about stunning revelations about trump s happened lipping of highly classified material, the doj wrote this investigation is not simple police about efforts to recover improperly retained presidential records. moreover, 18 uscc 2071 criminalizes the concealment or removal of government records, including presidential records. in short, this is an investigation about lies, about deceit and potential obstruction of justice. that s all spelled out in the doj s 36-page response to trump s request for a legal for a special master in what is nothing short of a damning report about the lengths to which trump and his legal team went to withhold subpoenaed information. just remember, it took eight months for trump to turn over the fi
trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. and for the first time, we got this visual of some of the classified documents seized from donald trump s home that serves as a hotel. some of those documents are said to be so highly sensitive that even the fbi counterintelligence personnel and doj attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted to review. and these were found after trump s lawyers told the doj he didn t have anymore. two sources tell cnn that lawyer was christina bobb, who said this after the search warrant was executed. we ve been cooperative this entire time. there was a subpoena issued that will obviously all didn t comply with because otherwise there wouldn t have been a raise i wouldn t say obviously we didn t comply with it. we are under the impression that we did comply with it. i m not aware of them coming back to us saying, you didn t turn everything over zplchlt so, you
they had turned over everything, they welcomed the fbi in with open arms, trump said do whatever you need to do and now doj is saying we ve had obstacles all along the way in this search. we haven t gotten straight answers. and they re laying this out because there is this public narrative that trump has put out there and his legal team and they re saying in the proper doj forum, in a court filing, laying out here is actually what was going on and here are the obstacles we encountered along the way. it s not as clear cut as it was being made to sound. en ott question of how secret or sensitive were these documents, certain of the documents had colored sheets, the classification levels range from confidential to top secret and certain documents included additional sensitive compartments that signify very limited distribution. then there s this, in some instances even the fbi counterintelligence personnel and doj attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they
really goes to the questions of knowledge and intent. those are elements of any case that a prosecutor would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt if we are to see criminal charges and i think this is some of our clearest evidence thus far of that knowledge and intent. we also look at, you know, according to the filing here and i m quoting here in some instances even the fbi counterintelligence personnel and doj attorneys conducting the review required additional security clearances before they were permitted to review certain documents. evan, give us a sense, what type of documents or information would be too sensitive for their existing clearance? yeah, that really stuck out to me, too, erica. look, you can see in the photograph that was that was included in the filing there is one document that you can clearly read the codes that the cia and other intelligence agencies use to mark the specific classifications and one of them says hcs, p, and then