asked for them to be returned. not good. hidden, concealed. look at that. top secret, sci the most secret documents that the government has, the highest classified rating right there. at mar-a-lago. and this is it appears, because the doj wasn t going to release this. but, you know, the court, a trump-appointed judge, pushed for this. and it seems that every everything is breaking against donald trump. there just he can defend himself. but bottom line is, mika, if you take top secret documents out of a government facility and then you lie to the department of justice about them. you have your people moving top secret documents out before a search comes, you tell them
which is donald trump s never given any excuse for having top secret documents. he said, i ve needed because of this. i ve needed because of that. rudy giuliani, kevin mccarthy, newt gingrich, all of the extremists calling the fbi fascists, calling them communists, caulk them the gestapo. not one has stepped forward with an explanation of why a former president would illegally take top secret documents from a government facility to his home. not once. there is no reason. there is no reason. no, there s no defense for it. even just based on the publicly available information, we know what happened here. we ll see what the justice department does with it. but not only were there documents taken, classified documents taken to a country
oh it is a social venue. there are people who come and go constantly. the amount of security days you get on the property securely, let alone someplace like the former president s office, that ancillary outside of the residential quarters, both places where they believe they found these documents. yes, not very hard to get me on the property especially if you happen to know member who will just bring you in for dinner, for hanging out or what have you. it is not secure, like the white house obviously is. our government facility. we win today treat president trump last year, for our book last month. we interviewed twice. it went in for the interview, and there was security outside. check their, i.d. and then said do you have any weapons, we, snow and that was enough. they didn t like the vehicle or anything like that. so it s kind of hit or miss. sometimes it is pretty secure,
you know, donald trump actually wanted mar-a-lago to be camp david instead of camp david. this is a report from 2017. you re not going to visit camp david. you re not going to be able to get within shouting distance of camp david. it s surrounded by maximum security fencing. more important the site is known as trump thought that was fun. he would rather entertain people at mar-a-lago. what do you know mar-a-lago has in security? i think that s a great question and almost answers itself. this is a resort and a public event space and a club in florida. it is not a military facility. it is not a government facility. until 2019 it didn t even have a no trespassing sign at the side gate. so when we talk about security
of the story here, just two weeks ago the fbi found nearly a dozen boxes more with classified documents marked within them. jim and poppy? katelyn, significant development, you learn so much from this letter. thank you very much. let s talk about all that we have learned. joining us defense attorney former federal prosecutor shan wu. good to have you. this is a sheer number of pages here, 700 pages, 100 plus classified documents in those boxes that were retrieved in january, by the way, and what we know now from this letter too is they included materials marked sensitive compartmented information, they had to be viewed in a scif, really secure government facility, and special access program documents, that s a classification that significantly limits who can see those documents. i mean, i remember andy mccabe, former director of the fbi telling us there were some documents of that classification that even he couldn t see and certainly couldn t bring to his office. how does all of t