investigation. and when they searched, the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they had handed over everything. and the filing included this photo, documents you can see, the red cover sheets, the yellow cover sheets, recovered from containers spread out on the floor by the fbi and the classified markings are clear, top secret, secret, highly classified information there, brianna. that s right. the fbi seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents during its search earlier this month. three of those classified documents were not found in boxes, but in trump s desk. and for all of those reasons the justice department vehemently opposes trump s request to appoint a special master to oversee the documents. the trump legal team has until tonight to respond to this latest doj filing. at a hearing on thursday, a judge will hear arguments before making her final decision on whether or not to
evan perez and sara murray have our reporting here. evan, first, what more can you tell us about the number of documents found and where? ana, we know according to the court filing, the fbi says they found more than 100 documents with classification markings in 13 boxes, some found in that storage room that had been the focus and the fbi as well as documents found in ma rar-a-lag. i ll read what the prosecutors said. they said the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the quote unquote diligent search that the former president s counsel and a representatives had weeks to perform and calls into question the representations made in the june 3rd certification and casts doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. what they re referring to, ana, this meeting in june where the former president s legal team said that, you know, they gave them some classified documents and said there were no more documents to be found ther
they re apprehended at the bo border, they turn themselves in, and after they re released, it is often up to them to pay their way as they travel throughout the country as they wait for the ultimate outcome of their atsylm proceedings. in response to my question, to state officials, about how much the state of texas has spend as part of this controversial border busing program, this is the number they responded with yesterday. close to $12.7 million and it is important to point out this number does not include the buses that we have seen arrive here in the big apple for the last three weeks. i ve been there, port authority, to see the buses, dozens of these families, but when you do the math, that just breaks down to roughly 1300 bucks or so per migrant. and it really doesn t make any financial sense. i checked this morning, the cost of a greyhound ride, under $300, if you want to fly from the southern border to new york,