effectively deserve to get this material any earlier. i mean, is that what it sounded like when you are talking to him about this? for the chairman if i can just put a little context, for the chairman this is about accountability, chairman bennie thompson is someone who started his political career in bolton mississippi a place where black people could not even participate in the political process for a large part of his life. when he became mayor of fulton, mississippi the first black mayor, his challengers his white challenger suit him, claiming he had fraudulent illegal votes, and he beat that case. so now is the chairman of jenner six committee i don t think he views this as the justice department wasn t doing their work, he also said in the conversation the interview we had today, that look, they asked for it earlier, we were in the middle of doing our own investigation, we were not done. i took that to mean that some of the information that eventually has been transmitted to th
mississippi. a place where black people could not even participate in the political process for a large part of his life. when he became mayor of bolton mississippi, the first black mayor his challenger, his white challengers suit him. claiming that he had fraudulent illegal votes. and he beat that case. so now as the chairman of the january six committee, i don t think he views this as the justice department wasn t doing their work. he also said in the conversation, they are we had today. that look, they asked for earlier. we were in the middle of doing our own investigation. we were not done and i took that to mean that some of the information that eventually has been transmitted to the justice department maybe they didn t have the time they asked. they weren t going to he wanted a full report if you will. a complete package to hand over to the justice department. simone, are you here. congrats on a news where the interview. i think every journalist and a lot of lawyers would lov
bennie thompson spoke to symone sanders townsend about what they were able to unearth that the justice department wasn t. there were people that we deposed that justice had not deposed. there were electors in various states that justice couldn t find. we found them you found them? we found them, we deposed them. joining us now, ryan nobles and carol leonnig. ryan, this report could release be released literally at any moment. but we ve been saying that for nearly 24 hours. what s been the holdup? reporter: there s no one clear reason i think for this report not to have been released yet. part of it is just the logistics of the printing getting all wrapped up. it s close to 1,000 page report, maybe more than 1,000 pages. that requires quite a bit of time to get through. but also, i think we would be
former cross fit lawyer said trump handed over all those documents. she signed a statement affirming, yes, that is it. nothing else to see here, folks. but even after that june visit, even after trump s attorneys swore there were no more classified documents at mar-a-lago, double pinky swear, the justice department wasn t convinced. on august 8th, the fbi executed a search warrant where they found, you guessed it, more documents at mar-a-lago marked top secret. the new york times reported late last night that, in fact, federal agents in total have now retrieved over 300 classified documents, hundreds and hundreds of pages of classified material from mar-a-lago. that record of foot dragging and false statements is apparently donald trump s definition of complete cooperation. and we have breaking news tonight about that supposed cooperation. the washington post reports what happened when archives first received the documents in
of the defenses like the fbi planted the evidence or things like that but i have to say, there s problems with it, as katelyn mentioned, this is not the way the system works, as far as we know, no one was ever told that these were declassified other than maybe some close aides, it was never written down anywhere, no formal process was followed but also, there was a lot of discussions and negotiations with the justice department. i suspect that the justice department wasn t told by the former president, and his aides, that this was declassified. they were told in fact, as it was just reported, that the classified materials had been returned, it really they had been declassified, they would have mentioned that earlier but legally, the issue here, is none of the statutes that were cited by the justice department