boxes in the storage room or signed a certification letter saying no other documents were there during that june meeting. despite saying documents were only in the storage room, the fbi found more in donald trump s over office. and not that they repeatedly delayed and seemingly misled investigators. instead the response focused again on why they argue donald trump needs the protection of a special master. quote, the united states attorneys office has filed an extraordinary document with this court suggesting that the d.o.j. and the d.o.j. alone should be entrusted with the responsibility of evaluating its unjustified pursuit of the president s possession of personal and presidential records in a secure setting. the former president addressed himself curiously not denying he knew they were there in the first place, instead arguing that d.o.j. put them on the floor to make him look bad. the fbi took them out of cartons and spread them around on the carpet, making it look like a
states because of a little known exception the government has been making. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, team trump s response. trump s legal team up against the clock to respond to that bombshell 54-page filing by the justice department. we should be getting that response at any moment now. it is due in less than an hour and the filing, which is expected to be no more than ten pages or less, could give us the first look at the strategy from trump s new legal counsel. that is florida s former solicitor general. for the first time, we re getting crucial insight into trump s defense against damning new evidence from the doj, which, according to the agency s new filing, investigators have evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed in the storage room and efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. the doj detailing in this filing the depth and the breadth
down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york
would get. the former president called this release today a total public relations subterfuge. the doj says that premature disclosure of more of this information could have a negative impact on their continuing investigation. here s president biden asked about this investigation, which he s been careful to keep at an arm s length publicly moments ago. the president said he declassified these documents. did he declassify them? i ve declassified everything in the world. i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment. i ll let the justice department take it up. that a short time from the president. bret baier is standing by. first to david spunt, our reporter covering this live at the justice department. good afternoon. good to see you again, david. what is the latest? interesting document. 38 pages. here s page 30 and 31, which you can see. you can consume some information. then there s page 15 and 16. so it just depends on which page you look at. there is some new
understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former president s home. sandra: one part reading after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises. john: david spunt is live at the justice department, 38 pages in total released in regard to this, including some attachments. so far we are getting an idea what the documents were or at least the category in which they fell. but we are not getting a lot in terms of the why they thought it was so urgent to go in there and unprecedented fashion and the fbi conduct a raid of mar-a-lago. david: john and sandra, that is the detail we have wanted to know since we first learned agents were going in