subpoena and finally a search, investigators have retrieved 48 boxes including at least 320 classified documents, including 72 marked confidential, 108 secret, and 42 top secret. now, the filing as one former top fbi official puts it obliterates claims that the fo former president and his lawyers had been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. okay. so let s lay out the time line for you. the national archives had been working for months to get all of these missing records from trump even while he was in office. in january of this year, they finally got 15 boxes of records that trump had taken with him to mar-a-lago, though they did not belong to him. once the national archives saw the reckless way trump had handled so much sensitive information, they contacted the doj for help getting other classified documents back that were still missing. according to this filing, one of the most significant concerns was that highly classified records were unfol
than 300 classified documents were found at mar-a-lago since trump left office, and not all of them in that unsecured storage room. the doj says three classified documents were found in trump s desk drawer. and as one former top fbi official put it, the new information obliterates claims that trump and his lawyers have been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. the doj response raises the stakes for the courtroom tomorrow. a judge holds a hearing on whether to appoint the special master, neutral third party to oversee the handling of the seized documents. the justice department opposes it and says a special master is unnecessary, and would significantly harm important governmental interesting, including national security interests. in the filing, the justice department also released this photo of some of the evidence found in the august search. you see the documents here to spread out on the floor by the fbi with some of the highest classifica
how is that? alex hogan on the growing threat from the nuclear power plant that has nuclear inspectors rushing to the scene. what have they discovered? further, what have they done? welcome. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. a lot to get to. first, let s go to edward lawrence at the white house with how they re responding to all of these developments. edward? vladimir putin has 700 billion more in his pocket because of the sale of oil to other countries around the worlds. russia is making 40% more revenue from oil than a year ago. russia raked in 20.4 billion largely because of a 55% increase in exports of oil to china, but also india. you ve seen an even more dramatic increase in india. india was hardly importing anything from russia when it comes to oil and in the course of the last four or five months, we ve seen that increase from basically zero to 8 or 900,000 barrels a day. it s again, that interest of these countries to find affordable energy and russia is a wi
what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news overnigh
documents with classified markings than the diligent search did. donald trump said they were in one storage room and the fbi said it wasn t and they shared this picture of documents into trump s office. they say the trump team delayed at nearly every stage and at one point stop d.o.j. from personally inspecting boxes in the storage room. team trump said the former president declassified the document and the government says there s no proof he did and the actions of his lawyers show they still believed the documents were still classified. team trump said he asserted privilege. he never asserted it until now and he doesn t have it anyway. team trump says the records were his. the government says no, classified or declassified, they belong to the government. team trump said the government inappropriately swept up personal items like his passport. the fbi said no, they were allowed to pick up anything commingling. the governor has already filtered through all of it anyway and if