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
plan. i m simone thompson, and i have something to say. some of our nation s biggest secret secrets that could mean life or death depending on whose hands there in you re not in a sensitive facility. they were at a resort in palm beach florida. look at these pages. 38 of them. the redacted copy of the affidavit justifying the unprecedented search of his home earlier this month. the judge released it yesterday. the justice department laid out potential violations of the espionage act after examining the 15 boxes of documents retrieved by the national archives. those 15 boxes contain 184 unique classified documents including 67 documents marked confidential, 92 mark secret, these all included information on at least one confidential human source overseas. not only could our flow of intelligence potentially be at risk peoples lives could be put in danger. we learned today that the director of national intelligence, avril haines, will assess the potential risk to national securit
trump wants an independent legal expert to review the stash of classified records seized from his resort. the judges letter is not a guarantee but they start the process of appointing a special master. after demands from congress, the director of national intelligence is making it official. her office is taking a look at the mar-a-lago documents, as well. in a letter obtained today by nbc, the director of national intelligence agreed to review the security risk from trump s mar-a-lago files. top democrats requested that the dni involvement and urging the authorities to act quickly. they say, quote, the doj affidavit confirms our grave concern that among the documents stored at mar-a-lago, where those that could endanger human sources. according to the affidavit we got friday, trump was holding on to highly sensitive information that could put americans and american assets in danger. donald trump four years as president was the first president in modern history who chose not
the mar-a-lago affidavit by noon eastern today. that document could tell us why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed in connection with the classified material being kept at trump s home. that document could also be heavily redacted. we will have to wait and see and we are standing by for that. yet even a redacted version could offer new revelations about the investigation and unprecedented search of the former president s home. let s get straight to cnn s jessica schneider she s live in washington standing by with us. jessica, what are you learning about what we may see any moment now? well, the big question here, kate, is how much of this document will the public actually see. you know, this is a document the prosecutors have previously talked about in court as being very lengthy, as talking about the sources and methods of this criminal investigation, ongoing criminal investigation, i might add, as well as discussing the details
tonight, the mar-a-lago affidavit is providing more clarity about why the justice department authorized the unprecedented search of a former president s home. the affidavit underscoring the fbi s fear that highly sensitive material might still be on the premises after dozens of classified documents already had been retrieved. here s cnn s justice correspondent, jessica schneider. startling new details about the hundreds of pages of documents former president trump kept at mar-a-lago for months as the national archives tried to get them back. the top-secret stuff and compartment can get people killed. it is completely alarming. reporter: the now unsealed affidavit revealing 14 of the 15 boxes that the archives revealed in january of 2022 contained classified information, 184 unique documents in all, 67 marked confidential, 92 marked secret, and 25 marked top-secret. prosecutors said of most significant concern was that highly classified records were unfolded, intermixed