empty. and two dozen additional documents marked either confidential, secret, or top secret. again, all of that was in one box. all told, fbi agents recovered over 10,000 government documents during their search at mar-a-lago. the filing also demonstrates just how carelessly the former president tweeted the classified government documents the tee went with after leaving office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty.
was headed. over the course of the past year, as you mentioned katie there have been 81 felonies wrought against alex murdaugh for financial crimes, even for drug dealing. i think a lot of people who would ve been surprised a year ago, they are not terribly surprised when he was charged with the death of his wife and his son, paul, last week. valerie, this family has been involved with so many bizarre incidents. we literally don t have time to get all into them. that is why the book you are writing is gonna be such a great fine. what is the big picture here regarding the murdaugh family? the big picture is this is a family that has really exercised power in this part of the world, southeastern south carolina for more than 100 years. so alex murdaugh great grandfather, father, where prosecutors. he was an assistant and a part-time prosecutor himself, at a time in the rural south in this county where they live, for a long time there were only like two deputies, you know? one jailer.
is not just one family. but a family that has power that goes out into the judicial system, long forsman, we have seen already three alleged coconspirators be charged. the ceo of the local bank for example. a lawyer who was arranging, alleged to have arranged kickbacks in an appropriate way to alec murdaugh. we will begin to understand that it is not just a family, but the way, in the southeast weekday go along to get along, the way that things work sometimes. it will shed some light on that. almost like a cultural thing going on down in the south. the next steps, valerie, in this case are a bond in the murder charges. murdaugh we ll be in court for those charges this coming wednesday. what are you looking for? what do you expect to happen then on wednesday, and perhaps the long term for alec murdaugh? you mention katie that his lawyers have strenuously
so the same body that believes that they shouldn t be able to buy cigarettes, things that it s okay to purchase an ar-15. we know that this weapon was legally purchased by this perpetrator under texas law. so the very least they can do if we, we re not gonna do an all out then, would be to raise the age. but they don t want to do that. that would take a quick special session. we could go in literally for a few, days follow legislation, it would be passed, and we could absolutely get that into effect immediately. but that s not what they want to do. this is interesting how the texas department of public safety have now stop taking questions. they refer reporters to the local district attorney. what is the role of the da at this point? you think they re preparing for some sort of a grand jury hearing? they absolutely may. what could happen is a lot of people normally look at the da as saying okay, long forsman s
to work on school campuses, they go through a training mission. part of that, essentially outlines that if officers in these situations are not willing to go into these rooms, confront active shooters, and basically risk their own lives, it simply tells them, the training manual tells them, they should find another line of work. so three days after this tragedy at this elementary school, that is the reality that so many of these families are dealing with, how drastically this story has changed. i was misled. i am livid about what happened. explosive reaction from the texas governor to new information about long forsman s response on the day of the uvalde shooting s. the information i was given turned out in part to be an accurate. i m absolutely livid about that. it is imperative that the