when it comes to the handling of these classified documents. now, there was also further detail provided by the white house counsel as well as the president s personal attorney, bob bauer when they talked about that search under way at the wilmington residence earlier this week. they said that when the personal attorneys were searching through that residence and they came upon classified markings, that they stopped looking at those documents. those personal lawyers do not hold security clearances. at that point, they notified the justice department so they could get possession of the documents themselves. but they did not search through any other boxes at that moment. then the white house counsel today said that the white house counsel i richard sauter, went up to delaware thursday evening, and as he was facilitating the transfer of that document they found an additional five pages of material that were then transferred over to the justice department. so it gives you a little bit more
see this sort of distrust. the original subpoena which was delivered to the trump folks called for the return of all documents, all government materials. not simply materials that were located at mar-a-lago, so the fact that items are still being discovered this far down the road suggests that the government has good reason to be distrustful and it will be up to the judge to fashion the remedy in this situation. choice, does it tell you anything about where prosecutors are in this investigation? right, so one question that a lot of people of asked is why does the government not just execute search warrants to recover anything that is out there in the wild? the problem is, in order to get a search warrant, you have to have probable cause to believe that evidence or fruits of a crime will be found in a specific locations. the fourth amendment requires particularity in the government s evidence and the government has to go to a magistrate judge and say we
what would actually happen? there right, so because this would be, in essence, a corporate contempt, this would involve a fine that would be imposed. judges typically calibrate these sorts of find in a way that is meaningful. they can escalate overtime, and the intent is to achieve compliance with the original order or legal document. but, what is so unusual here is that the lawyers are usually the adult in the room. the professionals, and so even in very hard-fought litigation, the lawyers for a plaintive, and the lawyers for a defendant in a criminal setting, and lawyers for a defendant, are usually able to trust each other to get along, to have a back and forth that moves the case forward. so it is extremely unusual to see this sort of distrust. the original subpoena which was delivered to the trump folks called for the return of all documents, all government materials. not simply materials that were located at mar-a-lago, so the fact that items are still being discovered this far
million retainer fee upfront. a reporter from washington. we are learning more by a notable development within the trump legal team that is handling that mar-a-lago documents investigation. that is that the newest addition to that team, chris kise former solicitor general for the state of florida and who was brought on primarily to deal with this case, has really been sidelined from dealing with the documents investigation. at all. it he is still on the legal, team he may be focusing on some of the other investigations i am told, trump is facing. there is that civil lawsuit in new york. that is the grand jury in washington d.c. that is focus on the january 6th insurrection. but i am told that chris kise is not leading the efforts when it comes to the trump s legal team operates when it comes to the investigation into the mar-a-lago documents case. and how trump handled those some 11,000 government materials that he took with him when he left office. this is notable for many reasons
liability if he did not return government materials that he had taken when he left office. there s still so much we don t know about this. we keep hearing more, but it s all of a piece, right? this is eric herschmann, who so unvarnished and his interviews with the january six committee, tongue the president, according to new york times reporting, last year, so the ex president, to be clear, that if he didn t return these documents, that he was hoarding in mar-a-lago, that he can face serious legal jeopardy. what that does is it blows up the excuse that there s no way trump knew, when he was living in some delusional fantasyland, exceed been told by one of his deputy white house counsel is that there was legal jeopardy, he had to return the documents and it was serious, and ignored it. but he and his folks were saying that complied with everything. that s a lie. that s a lie. straight up, it s a lie. it s a lie. we know from the documents, from his lawyers, he said he turned o