golo s a lifestyle change and you make the change and it stays off. (soft music) it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. a just released letter from the national archives reveals more than 700 pages of classified documents were retrieved from former president trump s home in january. and that collection set off the chain of events that led to the fbi s search of mar-a-lago this month. this letter, first disclosed on a web site of a trump ally lays out the deferential treatment given to former president after the discovery. it describes how the fbi waited more than a month to look into those boxes to assess the damage. that delay was to allow the trump team to review whether to claim executive privilege. the letter was made public just hours after trump s lawyers filed its first court response to the fbi finding all of those classified documents in his home. they re seeking a third party, also known as a special master now to
threatens the fbi in court documents and his supporters work up new excuses. every former president has access to other documents that s how they write the war memoirs. plus new reporting on the most powerful man in american politics the never heard of. as planned to spend 1.6 billion dollars from single conservative donor, and 78 days into the midterms, what mitch mcconnell s concerns about candidate quality a reading their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s batter. so when china gets our good air, their batter got to move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump is finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly the, attempts here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special ma
candidate quality are rearing their head in georgia. our good air decided to float over to china s bad air. so when china gets our good air, their bad air gotta move. all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. two weeks after the fbi executed that search warrant on his florida property, donald trump has finally issued a legal response if you want to call it that. not surprisingly, the attempt here is to stall the investigation into the allegedly classified information the fbi seized from mar-a-lago by asking the court to appoint what s called a special master. that s one who goes through and looks at the documents and sees if any are covered by executive privilege. that in itself does make a ton of sense. nevertheless, lots of legal observers say this all may be too little, too late. the case will be heard by judge aileen cannon who was appointed by trump, supported by far-right florida senator rick scott, before being confirmed in the lame du
we begin with new details we are learning about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago in florida. multiple people tell the new york times the government has recovered more than 300 documents with classified markings from trump since he left office. the people add that federal officials became alarmed at the national archives recovered over 150 classified documents from trump in january. the times reports trump was personally involved with the documents, going through the boxes himself in late 2021. nbc news has reached out to federal authorities and the trump team for comment. has not received a response as of this morning. this came hours after the former president filed a lawsuit challenging the search of his florida residence, requesting the appointment of an independent legal professional known as a special master to review the documents and for the justice department to stop its review. with us to start off this hour, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent enter, ken
this about the massive tranche of classified documents that were in trump s possession and have been ever since he left office in january 2021. they write this, quote, the extent to which such a large number of hailey sensitive documents remained at mar-a-lago for months, even as the department sought the return of all material that should have been left in government custody when trump left office suggested to officials that the former president or his aides have been cavalier in handling it, not fully forthcoming with investigators or both. the first batch of documents 15 boxes in total retrieved in january reportedly contained 150 classified documents, and the national archives relayed to trump s team just how sensitive these documents were in their may letter, telling trump s attorneys those boxes contained 700 pages of classified materials, some of them with the highest levels of classification possible. which suggests that they contain some of the government s most ferv