evidence emerging today in the guardian that in the crucial time between doj s subpoena and may of last year and the meeting between investigators and trump s legal team the following month, trump or his aides might have hidden classified documents from donald trump s own defense attorney from that stunning new reporting. quote, donald trump s lawyer told associates he was waved off from searching the former president s office where the fbi later found the most sensitive materials anywhere on the property. that lawyer, evan corcoran, recounted that several trump aides told him to search the storage room because that was where all the materials that had been brought from the white house at the end of trump s presidency ended up being deposited. corcoran found 38 classified documents in the storage room. he then asked whether he should search anywhere else but was steered away, he told associates. according to an inventory unsealed by a federal judge last year, the fbi found 27
trumpist republicans, but within that tribe itself. and so that creates a very different and somewhat unpredictable dynamic because we don t know exactly how it will play out because you have trump loyalists who are suddenly attacking other former trump loyalists in various different ways. and there is also a point at which a movement becomes a fight over the spoils. right now that audience are the spoils and there is a lot of media vultures who would like a piece of that. so interesting. i think you re right. there is no more fight between pro trump and anti-trump republicans. it is between pro trump and more trump republicans. it will be fun to watch. mike, thank you for your reporting. joyce vance, donny deutsch, charlie sykes, thanks for starting us off. when we come back, ron desantis is trying to score political points whenhe bashes the