empty. and two dozen additional documents marked either confidential, secret, or top secret. again, all of that was in one box. all told, fbi agents recovered over 10,000 government documents during their search at mar-a-lago. the filing also demonstrates just how carelessly the former president tweeted the classified government documents the tee went with after leaving office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s t
office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s the motive? the fbi isn t going into retweet paper clips. paper clips have no value. so what s it worth? and to whom? and if you didn t know that, you would say, let s start with a guy who owns the pla
voluntary actions taken. they then went and got a subpoena. they were deceived on that. they feel, and the facts are starting to so that they were being jerked around. and so, how long do they wait? how long do they wait? what happened during the waiting period? the deceiving, as a bill barr, the former attorney general of united states, trump s attorney general put it, how long? what would a detective think of a fact pattern right in front of us? joining our discussion now is the former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, and joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama law school. they are both msnbc legal analyst. also joining us, david cay johnston, he s a pulitzer prize -winning investigative reporter. he s done extensive reporting on trump s finances, long before the guy that came for us. he s the author of the big cheat: how donald trump fleeced america and in reached himself and his family. i m sorry david. if this were law and order, which i
bill barr, the former attorney general of united states, trump s attorney general put it, how long? what would a detective think of a fact pattern right in front of us? joining our discussion now is the former federal prosecutor glenn kirschner, and joyce vance, a former u. s. attorney and professor at the university of alabama law school. they are both msnbc legal analyst. also joining us, david cay johnston, he s a pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter. he s done extensive reporting on trump s finances, long before the guy that came for us. he s the author of the big cheat: how donald trump fleeced america and in reached himself and his family. i m sorry david. if this were law and order, which i love so much, if this or law and order, the cops would stop looking at this. they would look at the motive. they would look at all sorts of things. and then, they would see this guy has got a little bit of a rocky. if this were law and order, which i love so much, if this or law and