i love that. i was starting to join you. but you want me to cut it off now? my viewers are like, no. thank you good to see you, have a good one! a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin to another new legal filing of the fbi search to mar-a-lago, this is in addition to the head spinning legal documents in the last few hours. the newest one is from donald trump himself. it s a supplemental failing to support trump s request for a special master to review items seized by the fbi. in its, trump s lawyers are also asking for more detailed receipts from items seized in the fbi search, arguing that the redacted affidavit provides almost no information that would allow trump to understand why the search took place. or what was taken from his home. they also argued that the presidential records act is not a criminally enforceable statute. and new reaction from both sides of the aisle to the relea
the affidavit says those 184 classified documents, joyce, that were teach in january, they had markings for intelligence that could be a risk to national security. that includes intercepts of court ordered foreign surveillance and communications with confidential human sources overseas. let s lay it out simply here. spies. so, how unprecedented is all of this and why is it such a cause for alarm? i think one of the reasons that we are all struggling to find words to discuss this, alex, is that it is absolutely mind-boggling. the number of folders of information, the number of pages, the seriousness of the type of information that the former president treated cavalierly. according to the affidavit, had some of it was improperly stored. it didn t have folders that you would typically expect to find classified information in. it was mixed in with other information. it was strewn all around
spectacle of finding these highly is classified documents and then trump making this claim that he had to classify them all somehow, is to some extent a distraction from what is the real legal peril of the former president and his circle are facing in response to this crisis. i ve got to tell you, not a moment of distraction in this conversation with you guys. thank you so much, charlie savage, and ben rhodes. really excellent. thank you, so much. let s go from there now, to abc s gary rumba who is following president biden in wilmington delaware. gary, welcome to you. how is the president reacting to this released affidavit? yeah, we really haven t heard much from the president on this topic, in part because of his covid quarantines and because of his multiple vacations. but he was feeling chatty astronaut to reporters multiple times about the topic of the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the biden white house has made it a real priority for them to keep the work that the justice depar
nothing mentioned a nuclear. how do you interpret that charlie? it s right that nothing was mentioned on nuclear. those lists of acronyms and abbreviations of the different sorts of highly classified material was found notably did not have restricted data, already, which is the classification category used for nuclear secrets, like how to build a bomb. the washington post reporter early on on this that they heard nuclear information was in this and everyone paid a lot of attention to that. other news outlets including window own have not been able to match that. the lack of this airman suggests this was breaking up the wrong tree. this is not to say that they were not a lot of other very sensitive documents that were haphazardly thrown around at mar-a-lago and these boxes that were not stored correctly. it may be that the nuclear thing was a red herring. okay, so ben, this affidavit,
better for democrats than the special that we just want to new york. this could be a very different election than what they were forecasting earlier in the year, and republicans have only themselves to blame. which means i need you both back every weekend if possible here analysis leading up to the midterms. adrian, and kurt, thank you so much. up next legal experts pot and pockets are all trying to gauge the alpha mar-a-lago survey search affidavit. it doesn t crease the likelihood that donald trump will be indicted. interestingly, here is a map of the countries indicated in purple here where leaders have been jailed or prosecuted after leaving office since the year 2000. they include democracies like france and israel. axios points out that when in countries with monarchies or dictatorships, no such occurrences as you might imagine. s as you might imagine.