involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs, among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january whe
statement some lines mentioning that the department has looked into this incident to make sure they are prepared for this and i should also add, that the special prosecutor who spoke today, peter scandalakis said bronson and rolfe commit nod crimes and acted as reasonable officers would under the facts and circumstances. live for us on that story, thank you very much. here are new developments on the monkeypox emergency with today the u.s. hitting more than 15,000 confirmed cases. this is more than any other country by far. it comes one day after the white house released nearly 2 million monkeypox doses. i want to bring in now the white house national monkeypox response deputy coordinator. thank you for being with us on the show. important story and a big week for us. i m sorry. couldn t hear you, one more time. i was saying hello and checking if you could hear me.
among the 15 boxes of documents that trump folks turned over in january where the archives was trying to get the documents back. what that suggests is there was great concern from early on in this year about the storage of highly classified documents and this letter goes on to quote from the justice department s national security division to the trump lawyers saying we need access to these documents to conduct a damage assessment, not only the fbi but other elements of the intelligence community need to see these documents. grave concern, and it just shows that the department actually waited months before they took the dramatic step of asking for a search warrant and sending fbi agents down to retrieve what they think is the remainder of the documents stored at mar-a-lago. hallie? ken, thank you. tally, to you, on the investigations and the way they re paced, does it surprise you the tone and the sort of speed at which the national
involved in the death of rayshard brooks in atlanta in 2020. a live report coming up. we have a lot going on here this afternoon. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to start with our nbc news news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian and former prosecutor and legal analyst tally winestein. the new letter that nbc news has gotten their hands on, the national archives had it, posted it, to mr. trump s attorneys where they found more than 100 documents marked as classified. talk about this letter and what changed between january when some of these docs were recovered to this summer and this past month? just how long the justice department has known that very sensitive, highly classified documents have been stored at mar-a-lago. this letter was written in may, is that the national archives found documents marked sensitive compartmented information and sap, special access programs,