empty. and two dozen additional documents marked either confidential, secret, or top secret. again, all of that was in one box. all told, fbi agents recovered over 10,000 government documents during their search at mar-a-lago. the filing also demonstrates just how carelessly the former president tweeted the classified government documents the tee went with after leaving office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s t
office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s the motive? the fbi isn t going into retweet paper clips. paper clips have no value. so what s it worth? and to whom? and if you didn t know that, you would say, let s start with a guy who owns the pla
pm, now scrapped because of a hydrogen leak. then there was this, pretty remarkable, slow developing drama unfolding all morning over the skies of tupelo, mississippi an ending in a cornfield. it began with the pilot threatening to crash that plane into a walmart. that is where we begin with this mississippi breaking news. the latest development we have just learned is that that plane is now down. apparently landing safely with the pilot now in police custody, after circling the skies for hours. i believe four hours total. and threatening to crash there in mississippi. it all started early this morning. people got rid of the plane, his pilot saying a planned to crash into a walmart in tupelo. that prompted evacuations from walmart. police that the pilot were apparently in by phone early on. then the plane flew this really haphazard manner for hours before coming down in that cornfield, again just minutes before we came on the air. here is part of the coverage from our affilia
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new developments from the fallout from the fbi search of mar-a-lago. a federal judge in florida is now signaling that she is inclined to grant a request from donald trump s lawyers to appoint a special master in the case. the hearing is set for thursday. a new reaction today after the director of national children s told chalk lawmakers in the house oversight intelligence committees that her office would conduct a risk assessment of republican mar-a-lago materials. democratic lawmakers in both chambers of congress expressed concerns over the former president s handling of documents. the thought that he had put our national security, and those who serve to protect us at such risk is extraordinary. i m deeply alarmed at what we are learning. it is not about whether donald trump broke the law, but that he could be putting our national security at risk, he could be
national security. dni haynes that she will work closely with the justice department to avoid interfering with its criminal code into the matter. to put it lightly, the intelligence community is rattled by more than the obvious here. a former president which used to be so reckless with top secret information. that he was sworn to protect. his actions may have very well put the lives of americans and american assets on the line. . i as a cia officer, our job is to recruit human assets overseas who are willing to turn their backs on their own countries to guarantee our safety here in america. our job as cia officers is to keep their identities secret and safe. and make no mystery about it. people either have died or will die as a result of these documents being placed out there. also new this week, and a trump appointed judge in florida signaling she s open to a point in what is called a special master to look in the case. stop by trump s legal team. the special master we f