shouldn t have triggered an fbi search. let s go the evan perez this morning. good morning, erica. the trump team largely ignores a lot of the allegations that the justice department made in its bombshell filing a couple nights ago. they are saying it should not have been a surprise that there were classified documents found at mar-a-lago. they were considered personal and presidential records. i will read you part of what they say in the court fueliling. that the records contain sensitive information should never have been cause for alarm. they re saying that the justice department cannot be trusted to just look through the documents and sort out what may be presidential privilege, executive privilege, or at attorney/client privilege. they want to appoint a special master to look at the documents and set aside the things that may be considered privileged. so, we expect that this judge is going to take a look at this filing and really maybe ask some questions about what the
importantly, the information that s contained within them, must be reviewed in controlled environments much as a sciff. this is an area that contains the access outside of those allowed it. to be fair, mar-a-lago when president trump was in office, did have a scif. he did have access to the type of facility where he could review the documents anytime that he chose. once he left office, that facility shut down and no longer applicable to a former president. that s where we are today. to make an attorney come in and out and there s public access that raises the potential, that someone could have seen out of nefarious intent, information contained in the documents is
court filing, last night, lael says anything about declassification. and the fact he s confirming what the justice department said it found, again, contradicts a lot of what we ve heard from the trump team. there s been no consistency. that s the things that the judge might have to examine today. there s no answer to the question of why when you received a subpoena back in may, why is it that there were classified documents found when the fbi searched mar-a-lago three weeks ago. one of the key questions. jonathan, here s what trump attorney lea haba said last night, weighing in. i ve been down there. i m down there frequently. i ve never seen that. i have never ever seen that. that s not the way his office looks. anybody that knows president trump s office, he has guests frequently there. it s a joke. they must have gone in and taken out documents they wanted or