on this tuesday night. good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle. setback because we have a got a lot to cover. there continues to be more questions than answers about the fbi search of donald trump s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. and missy news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records in that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. former president and his allies have
s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. nbc news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records and that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street journal and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. the former president and his allies have relentlessly attacked the fbi and the doj for conducting the search and they have implied that president biden was behind it which the white house denies. no, the president was not briefed, was
even as unemployment ticked up. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m brianna keilar and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, the newly unsealed inventory from the fbi s mar-a-lago search and the questions that it s raising about former president trump s handling of highly classified material. cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez is following the investigation for us. so evan, this full inventory shows more than 48 empty folders with classification banners as well as some personal items mixed in with government documents. what exactly does this more detailed list reveal? well, that s exactly right. you look at some of the haphazard way seemingly haphazard way in which some of these items were being stored, mixed in with items of clothing and news clippings and magazines, you have classified information, for instance, 18 documents that were marked top secret. 54 documents marked secret. a
see what they could find. that s some other reporting that we are seeing, we have don t know everything, we haven t seen the list of items they have taken from mar-a-lago. but i still think there are a lot of unanswered questions and we re starting to see a little bit more about what led to this very big day yesterday. chuck, from the doj s perspective, would it have to be more than a hunch that trump was holding out? they have to have more than that in order to get a judge to sign off on the search like this? they have to meet the standard specified in the fourth amendment of the constitution stephanie, probable cause. in fairness, probable cause is the lowest standard in the criminal law. but if you think about it that makes sense because this is an investigatory step. that s not for conviction or trial which require the highest standard. it s for the issuance of us that search warrant and at the beginning of an investigation, you have less information and less evidence.
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