you too. thanks to you at home for being here. we have breaking news tonight, in the investigation into trump s handling of top secret classified government records that wound up at the florida beach club. and the special stay of the special master ruling, judge cannon ruled that she will appoint a special master, an independent third party to review the 11,000 seized records that the fbi retrieved from trump s lome 40 days ago, and in response, the justice department be grudgingly said okay, go ahead and appoint the special master but please exclude the roughly 100 classified documents seized from mar-a-lago because we need to continue the criminal investigation of the classified documents due to special national security interests. also aal second intelligence assessment into the potential risks and harms that may have been caused byat having those t secret classified documents hanging out at trump s club, the justice department argued that thatst assessment could not c
but, you know,. i ll just say, i m luckier than perhaps some of your viewers, because i usually get to touch base with you at least once a day, even without twitter. there you have it. have a great show. have a great weekend. thank you, nicole. welcome to the beat. i am ari melber. this is one of those busy news fridays. we begin with the bombshell that s led trump s team to really be on alert or in damage control mode even though they have gotten some procedural steps, victories of sorts in this mar-a-lago case. now the news is, donald trump s team lied to the national archives long before they ever got his home searched. the washington post reports, the archives were actually told none of that material that remains a big issue in this criminal investigation was sensitive or classified at all, that trump had 12 boxes of news clippings. well, that s blatantly false. we know the fbi found hundreds of classified documents. we know this went way beyond news clippings.
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 had handed over everything. and the filing included this photo, documents you can see, the red cover sheets, the yellow cover sheets, recovered from containers spread out on the floor by the fbi and the classified markings are clear, top secret, secret, highly classified information there, brianna. that s right. the fbi seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents during its search earlier this month. three of those classified documents were not found in boxes, but in trump s desk. and for all of those reasons the justice department vehemently opposes trump s request to appoint a special master to oversee the documents. the trump legal team has until tonight to respond to this latest doj filing. at a hearing on thursday, a judge will hear arguments before making her final decision on whether or not to
evan perez and sara murray have our reporting here. evan, first, what more can you tell us about the number of documents found and where? ana, we know according to the court filing, the fbi says they found more than 100 documents with classification markings in 13 boxes, some found in that storage room that had been the focus and the fbi as well as documents found in ma rar-a-lag. i ll read what the prosecutors said. they said the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the quote unquote diligent search that the former president s counsel and a representatives had weeks to perform and calls into question the representations made in the june 3rd certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. what they re referring to, ana, this meeting in june where the former president s legal team said that, you know, they gave them some classified documents and said there were no more documents to be found ther
filing. all right. let s beginning this morning with kara scannell. kara, these are stunning developments. walk us through the key the key revelations that tells us so much. yeah, i mean, what we ve really learned from this, from the department of justice filing, they say when they went and executed this search warrant at mar-a-lago three weeks ago they recovered twice as many classified documents than what the former president s legal team had given them pursuant to a grand jury subpoena in june. so this all goes right to the department of justice s position that the trump team has not been cooperative with this investigation, they re really trying to put forth a counternarrative him. they say that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representatives had weeks to perform, calls into serious question the representations made in the june 3rd certifi