word. the 11th hour starts right now. s last word tonight, revelations from the highly anticipated affidavit and that led to the search of mar-a-lago. confirmation of got to fight documents discovered in florida, and the possible threats to national security. then, the heavily reacted document leaves a lot of unanswered questions, especially about potential legal implications for the already, twice impeached, former president. and, as we try to navigate this uncharted territory, one of our favorite, presidential historians, tries to put it all to perspective. as the 11th hour gets underway on this very busy friday night. but evening once again. i alicia menendez am in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warran
word. the 11th hour starts right now. tonight, revelations from the highly anticipated affidavit and that led to the search of mar-a-lago. confirmation of hard to find documents discovered in florida, and the possible threats to national security. then, the heavily redacted document leaves a lot of unanswered questions, especially about potential legal implications for the already, twice impeached, former president. and, as we try to navigate this uncharted territory, one of our favorite presidential historians, tries to put it all to perspective. as the 11th hour gets underway on this very busy friday night. good evening once again. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warrant has been
good evening once again. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warrant has been unsealed and made public. the document supports much of which was already known about the criminal investigation to whether trump and his aides took secret government papers, and failed to return all of them, despite repeated demands from senior government officials. nbc s peter alexander has more on today s bombshell developments. reporter: the 38-page affidavit focuses on what the fbi says it found in 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives in january. mixed in with newspapers, magazines, and presidential correspondents were 184 classified documents, 67 of them marked confidential. 92 marked secret. and 25
as. frank, you mentioned this a few moments ago. the pittsburgh boasted reporting of a russian-speaking woman who impersonated in heiress, by passing security at mar-a-lago, with ease, a year before the fbi search. here is the reporter on that story earlier on this network. there is an active investigation. they re just trying to determine, you know, a lot of the background, how she found her way into there. she went back to mar-a-lago in and out. she was driving a brand-new mercedes-benz suv, and she, at least, 5 to 6 trips, in and out of mar-a-lago, with really nobody checking her i.d., nobody really finding out who really is she. all the guests and their thought she was a rothschild. msnbc has not verified this report yet. frank, if true, it would seem to underscore just how potentially dangerous than his handling of these documents, as we talk about this through a security lens? yeah, look.
important to remember here. there s something going on here. as we are headed fully whatever was he thinking? which was he doing? why was he doing this idea of government the sense that each day, he doesn t tell me what to do. i m in charge. my papers, because i was the president. i m in charge here. obviously, as frank and harry were talking about here, these papers do not belong to him. if they don t belong to him. they belong to the public. they belong to the united states public, the taxpayers who funded the government. and even aside from whether there are secret or not, he is not entitled to take them with him, and to hold on to, them in defiance of justice department, or the archives. the security part of it is an important aspect of it. even if that wasn t the issue, he is not entitled to these documents under the law. and he cannot simply taken them with him, and defy the request to return them. they re ours, they re not as. frank, you mentioned this a few moments ago. the