it really fills on a number of levels. i mean, it falls to the point about this being about pre-, are about to rent. as we mentioned this national archive letter was posted by conservative columnist, a trump supporter. it looked like an attempt to try and implied that president biden was going after trump, again, without any evidence. why would team trump why would trump world want this document released? phil? yes, the trump team seemed to have wanted this document released because they thought it might paint the picture of the fbi, the federal government and really the biden white house going after trump and unfairly targeting him. and yet, what they must have miscalculated is that the fact reveals a whole heap of trouble for a former president. it shows all of the opportunities that the former president and his legal team had to try and work with the
it is a more than 20 page weren t without any of the common features that one might expect of a legal complaint filed by individuals who have been trained as lawyers and barred him license by a jurisdiction in this country. it really fills on a number of levels. i mean, it falls to the point about this being about pre-, are about to rent. as we mentioned this national archive letter was posted by conservative columnist, a trump supporter. it looked like an attempt to try and implied that president biden was going after trump, again, without any evidence. why would team trump why would trump world want this document released? phil? yes, the trump team seemed to have wanted this document released because they thought it might paint the picture of the fbi, the federal government and really the biden white house going after trump and unfairly targeting him. and yet, what they must have miscalculated is that the fact reveals a whole heap of trouble for a former president. it shows all o
documents that the government knew he had. to that point, phil, you have new reporting tonight on how the fbi began to zero in on classified documents at mar-a-lago, after months of delay. your paper reports trump, quote, ignored multiple opportunities to quietly resolve the fbi concerns by handing over all classified material in his possession. phil, are the feds typically this patient? just how unusual is all of this? it s highly unusual. my colleagues at the washington post tonight have this new reporting about the timeline that goes back to early april of this year, when trump was first notified by the national archives that the fbi would be asked to review the documents that they had obtained from mar-a-lago earlier in the year to review them for classified materials and really, this is the beginning of what had become a very serious federal law enforcement investigation,
that is what s enough the decision to ultimately search mar-a-lago to weeks ago. melissa alyssa, as phil angel laid out, the six are so high. you have a judge in florida asking trump lawyers to resubmit his request for a special master for the search, saying his lawyers basically botched the paperwork. is his legal team underestimating just how serious this really is? it s hard to say. if they underestimated this, or this is truly the extent of their professional acumen, alicia. it is clear that judge cannon and asking them to submit their feelings about the kind of relief that they are seeking the evidence that they have and earn pedal to such relief and a case, so just how impoverished this filing was. barb mcquade last night basically equated to a press release. i think that is exactly right.
and our reporting, as well as the court filings and other documentation that have surfaced this week paints a picture of repeated weeks-long negotiations between the national archives and the fbi trump legal team with trump trying to prevent the fbi from reviewing those documents. ultimately, he felt in the attempt, and it was the national archivist acting at the direction of the sitting president who deferred this decision to the archives, who effectively said, time is up. you have had the opportunity to review these and to contest this, and the fbi is going to get these documents, and in fact the fbi did look at the documents, and what they found was so sensitive and so alarming, and they realized more documents were missing. that is what s enough the decision to ultimately search mar-a-lago to weeks ago. melissa alyssa, as phil angel laid