initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l
a newly unsealed document shows the agency is looking into several crimes which include the, quote, willful retention of national defense information. that revelation does a couple of things, one, it intensifies the focus on former president trump as the possible or a possible subject of the investigation. trump has claimed a standing order to declassify documents he took from the white house, but in a cnn exclusive, 18 former top trump administration officials tell us they never heard of any such order issued while trump was in office. it also may be key that that law, willful retention of national defense information, it may not matter if the information was classified. we will dig into that more deeply. as the spotlight brightens on trump the doj continues its fight for some secrecy. the department expressed serious concerns that releasing the affidavit behind the search warrant could impede its investigation, also might endanger witnesses. still the judge appears to be
not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr
white house scrambling to slow down the monkeypox outbreak. we are going to speak to one of the top officials working on a new strategy. plus, outrage, an nfl star accused of assault receiving a punishment that critics are calling a slap on the wrist. that s what we re watching for at this hour. thank you for being he, we start this morning with a federal judge ordering that prosecutors propose redactions to the affidavit that was used to justify last week s search of former president trump s florida home. the judge is giving prosecutors a week to do it, but he s already signaling that he s inclined to unseal parts of the highly sensitive document. plus this, cnn is hearing exclusively from 18 former top trump officials who tell us that the former president s claim that he had a standing order to declassify documents is nonsense. let s begin our coverage with cnn s katelyn polantz, she s live for us here in washington. katelyn, walk us through how much detail we could
senate. mitch mcconnell worries aloud that it may block his return to the senate majority. and democrats say thousands of new irs agents will replace retir rees and improve customer service. up first for us, though, a new deadline and legal siren for the former president donald trump. federal prosecutors now have until next week to tell a judge what portions of the affidavit should stay secret. the judge disagreeing with the justice department say they are pieces of that document that could be made public without harming the case. they argued the probably cause for that warrant application. we learned the affidavit relies on substantial grand jury information and prosecutors say a full and public release of the document would lay out all to see the road map for the justice department s case, including next critical steps. we also got a glimpse of a new document with new allegations against the former president quoting willful retention of national information, language that p