trace: we re getting a new look at the seized documents. some marked secret and top secret. chief washington correspondent mike emanuel has more from the d.c. newsroom. good morning. a 36-page filing from federal prosecutors meeting a federal judge s late night deadline. they argue the motion for a special master in the case fails for multiple independent reasons. in this filing prosecutors write the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the government also released this photo which contains a number of files with bright yellow or red cover sheets signifying top secret material. they appear spread out over a carpet. the court filing said they were recovered inside a container in the former president s office. prosecutors write three classified documents that were not located in boxes but rather were located in the desk
to donald trump s lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trump s lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the department asked the judge permission to go beyond 20 page filing limit, and submit a 40-page response. 14 pages to trump s lawsuit. the government said it needed the extra pages to, quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s motion. again, that filing can come literally any moment now. that doj filing could potentially shed more light on the government s criminal investigation, and will no doubt serve as a 40-page rebuttal to donald trump s claims of complete cooperatio
the documents had been returned. it also including this new photo showing documents with classified markings laid out on a carpet. some of them found in a desk in the former president s personal office. the filing also says some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and justice department attorneys needed additional security clearances to look at them. doj also says trump s request for a special master is quote unnecessary and would significantly harm governmental interests including national security interests. the former president has until 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight to respond. a federal judge in florida will hold a hearing tomorrow on his request for a special master. with us now to take a closer look, nbc news homeland security continue julie ainsley, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say
years after the feds invested billions to get the island back. the american people who live there are in the dark. we asked why. this is american voices! hello everyone. i m alicia mendes. mental gymnastics, it could be donald trump s favorites for. as we go into the classified documents at his mar-a-lago residents. trump claims that those were declassified. when boxes sean hannity asked about that the classification process let s call it this week. the latter made a claim so bonkers that you re going to have to hear it from trump himself. it doesn t have to be a process as i understand, it there s different people who say different things but as i understand there doesn t have to be. if you re the president of the united states you can be classified just by saying it s the classified. even by thinking about it. because you are sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you are sending it. let s just say if you consider these mental gymnastics he didn t quite stick the lan
continues for monday. there is not a single moment without a line of mourners inside westminster hall. many of them, as you can see here, wiping away tears during their final moments with the queen. in sandringham, the late queen s winner retreat, the prince and princess of wales made their first outing with their new title and prince william told one woman yesterday s procession brought back terribly sad memories of his mother s funeral. i can understand that. back to what is happening in london later, with a look at the royals multimillion dollar fortune and how they make their money and what it pays for, and first, president biden is breathing easier today, even though he might be a bit tired. he averted a quote catastrophe, the words of his labor secretary, by getting rail companies and the workers union to come to a tentative deal. it happened at 4:30 this morning. that may be why he might be a little tired, two hours after the sun came up, after a long night of negoti