the special counsel jack smith has amassed a seemingly huge and fresh body of evidence according to some incredible new reporting in the washington post. from that story, in the classified documents case federal investigators have gathered new and significant evidence that after the subpoena was delivered trump looked through the contents of some of the boxes of documents in his home, apparently out of a desire to keep secertain things in his possession, the people familiar with the investigation said. investigators now suspect based on witness statements, security camera footage and other documentary evidence that boxes including classified material were moved from a mar-a-lago storage area after the subpoena was served and that trump personally examined at least some of those boxes, according to these people. while trump s team returned some documents with classified markings in response to the subpoena, a later fbi search found more than 100 additional
holding back records after receiving a subpoena he then, as we already have reported at the washington post and as and to be fair, as investigators at the department of justice already learned before jack smith got this case, he had told his attorneys here s where you should be here s where you should search for these records. and thinks lawyer attested that i looked through all the records, all the places that i was told to look and i concluded that there are no more classified records at mar-a-lago that turned out to be false. as you know, as i know, as my washington post colleagues know, as everybody on this panel, very seasoned watchers of this case now, there were 100 more classified records and then some at mar-a-lago after donald trump and his attorneys asserted that they had returned everything. that is a huge problem for donald trump now jack smith has another big
august august 30th. through further investigation the fbi uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the may 11th grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at the premises notwithstanding the sworn certification made to the government on june 3rd in particular, the government developed evidence that a search limited to the storage room would not have uncovered all the classified documents at the premises the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. why hasn t the obstruction case been charged yet so if i m donald trump s lawyer, nicolle, and heaven knows what i did in a past life to wind myself up there. but if i were, i would take what you said and say look, that s fine, that might show an obstruction charge against someone, but where s the evidence linking that to donald
we expect it s been reported that he will be finger printed and that he will hear the charges. we do not expect trump at any point to be handcuffed or put in a holding cell dna will likely not be collected and whether or not a mug shot is taken is still one of those unknown and unclear issues we do know that trump will leave court under his own free will, and that he plans to travel back to florida before speaking out very publicly about the case against him tomorrow night the eve of an unprecedented moment in american history is where we begin today, former u.s. attorney, former deputy assistant attorney general harry litman joins us. former rnc chairman, michael steele, former senator claire mccaskill is back, and i start with you michael steele, i guess
classified items that had not been turned over the washington post details how this behavior was happening even earlier investigators have also amassed evidence indicating that trump told others to mislead government officials in early 2022 before the subpoena, when the national archives and records administration was working with the justice department to try to recover a large range of papers, many of them not classified, from trump s time as president, according to people familiar with the investigation well, such alleged conduct may not constitute a crime, it could serve as evidence of the former president s intent intent is key to proving obstruction. so as the post reports, in the trump case prosecutors and federal agents are trying to gather any evidence pointing to the motivation for trump s actions. brand new evidence looking at trump s potential obstruction of justice in the mar-a-lago