states nuclear programs, potential vulnerabilities of the united states and its allies to plan military attacks, to military attack, and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack, end quote. according to the indictment, this is what donald trump did with those state secrets. for the first few months, some boxes to on the stage of an event space known as the white and gold ballroom before they were moved to the business center. then, some boxes were stored in a bathroom, stacked high above the marble floors, surrounding the toilet and blocking access to the bum, shower, not blocking access to the toilet. they were finally moved to a storage room in 2021, piled high along the walls of the room, but this case isn t just about mishandling the highly sensitive documents. the government also alleges the former presidents quote, endeavored to obstruct the fbi and grand darien vista geishas end quote. for a period of time, trump repeatedly ignored the fbi s order
Trump they needed to search for documents that would be responsive to the subpoena and provide a certification that there had been compliance with the subpoena. trump in sum and substance, been following statements, among others, as memorialized by trump attorney won. a, i don t want anyone looking. i don t want anybody looking through my boxes. i really don t. i don t want you looking through my boxes. well, what happens if you just don t respond at all, or don t play ball with them? see, wouldn t be better we just told them we didn t have anything here? the, we ll look. isn t it better if there are no documents? and quote. i m joined now by charlie savage, the pulitzer prize-winning washington correspondent for the new york times and author of power wars the relentless rise of presidential authority and secrecy, also with us as mark zain, that managing partner of mark-esque zane pc, professor at johns hopkins university, the executive director and founder of the james madison project
Announce that additional emails had been found. people argue that helped former president trump get elected. so to find ourselves here, i d be curious to know what she thinks. a lot of unprecedented. right? we are awaiting the special counsel making a statement here in about 25 minutes. that is the expectation here. but also just when we re talking about the sheer amount of documents, we ve touched upon this a little bit. but this period of time from may 23rd to june 2nd, it says in sum before trump attorney one s, evan corcoran s review of trump s boxes in the storage room, which we know is a review of incomplete, hugely incomplete amount of documents, nauta, his valet, at trump s direction, moved approximately 64 boxes from the storage room to trump s residence and brought to the storage room only approximately 30 boxes. there s a lot of missing boxes there. and neither trump nor nauta informed evan corcoran of this
Intelligence briefing related to foreign countries. document concerning military capabilities of a foreign country and the united states with handwritten annotation in black. document concerning white house intelligence briefing related to foreign countries. document concerning the nuclear capabilities of a foreign country. document concerning white house intelligence briefing related to foreign countries. concerning communications with a leader of foreign country. document concerning military capabilities of a foreign country. document concerning military attacks by a foreign country. document concerning military capabilities you can go on and on. when they try to tell you this is trivial, updated document concerning military activity. covered the white house for ten years, this is the most sensitive stuff in the united states government at a time of great global turmoil. it belongs under lock and key in the united states government. and what this alleges, and again i ll say it agai
From this they ve got a lot of goods. to that point, we are moments away from hearing for the first time from jack smith, the special counsel who brought this 49-page indictment. and in the details here, in the meticulous listing of the chronology and the documents and the stakes and the classified markings and the text messages from trump aides, the notes to trump attorneys, at first glance here it seems to be that jack smith not only studied the law but studied the mueller report, the impeachments and how trump works. and there was a big conversation last night was why was jack smith yielding the first 12 hours to donald trump. i think he s answered the question here. and it will be fascinating to hear what he does and what he doesn t say, what he will say, is he willing to answer questions, history does he take no questions? but this is the counter. last night was a vacuum. this is a thud. it bears repeating that this was the crime that really didn t have to happen. he didn t ha