them to the federal government, but despite all of that the fbi still recovered 11 sets marked as classified documents when they did the search last monday. that included documents, john, that were marked at every level of classification in the system, including the most sensitive types of documents that are not to be represent anywhere but in special secured rooms called skiffs. those seized boxes are evidence in an ongoing criminal appropriate plus the justice department will look at all of the interactions that investigators had with trump s team over the past several month and that s going to be all factoring in as they decide whether anyone should be charged with a crime. no one has been charged at this time. there are a lot of questions about exactly what these documents pertain to. two house committees have asked for a classified briefing as well as a damage assessment from the intelligence community and trump for his part, he is indicating that his team could try to c
what if the main goal of all of this was just to get that stuff out of mar-a-lago? well, i think that s a question that s on everybody s mind and certainly from where the justice department sits, this was these are these were top secret, classified documents, some of the nation s most, you know, privileged, sort of secrets about national security and military matters and the justice department s top priority in this case was just getting those back. and it s sort of an open question where the investigation heads now but we know that investigators are just beginning to sort of look at the stacks of documents that they have, they have more than 20 boxes to go through so this is going to be a process that takes quite some time. sand it would make sense that they were so worried because this is not really a secure facility. you have had arrests there of foreign nationals who were up to questionable activities. well, you know, one of the main questions that the justice d
it seems this morning that the fbi believed that was false. and this might have contributed to the need for the search warrant last week. trump s response to the search warrant has evolved almost daily, sometimes hourly since last monday. he now insists the seized materials fall under attorney/client privilege and should be returned to him immediately. to be clear, whether or not some documents are protected has nothing to do with the fact that the fbi believes trump might have broken the law. investigators are pursuing the next steps of the criminal investigation into the handling of national security material. new reporting in the wall street journal suggests the process could take months as agents try to figure out who might have had access to these documents. joining us now is wall street journal justice department reporter sadie german who has been pushing so much of this reporting forward. the head line on your piece is that, quote, search of mar-a-lago achieved doj top p