return dozens of highly classified documents, this despite several requests over several months. the justice department also released its most visual piece of evidence and you re looking at it, that is a photo showing documents with the highest classification markings laid out there by the fbi, officials say those documents were recovered from a container that trump kept at his mar-a-lago home. since january, the u.s. government has recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a-lago. the justice department says three of those classified documents were not in boxes in that storage facility. they were actually found in former president trump s desk. so let s begin this morning with all of that news and this stunning filing from the doj, with our correspondent kara scannell. this is why doj needed 40 pages. they needed twice what the court said they could have because they had to apparently lay all of this out. yeah, good morning, jim and poppy. part of the objecti
obliterates that argument. i think the thing that stands out to me most from the language in this filing is they have gone to great pains to show there has not only has there not been cooperation from the trump team, there has been allegedly obstruction and deliberate obfuscation. so the affidavit or affirmation signed by the custodian of records who we believe is the attorney, christina bobb, it couldn t be more inaccurate. they say they conducted a diligent search, they say they recovered any and all documents described by the subpoena, and that no copies of those documents have been retained, we now know that s absolutely not true. so you can understand, you know, originally we were, like, why did the government feel there was such urgency to take this extreme step of searching the former president s residence? well, it is perfectly obvious now. it wasn t a rush to judgment, it was only at the conclusion of a year and a half worth of back