search was executed, former president trump issued a public statement that provided the first public confirmation that the search had occurred. subsequently, the former president s representatives have given additional statements to the press concerning the search, including public characterizations of the materials sought. as such, the occurrence of the search and indications of the subject matter involved are already public. now, we have also just learned some key context about the events that led up to the search on monday. nbc news confirms that trump received a federal grand jury subpoena this spring for sensitive documents the government believed he retained after his departure from the white house. this makes clear the department of justice tried to get donald trump to give the documents back, but eventually they had to take them back. as the new york times reports, quote, two people briefed on the classified documents that investigators believe remained at mar-a-lago indicated
national archives began to believe that the former president and his team were not being entirely truthful about what he had in his possession at mar-a-lago. and that, along with interviews from a number of his aides, former and current advisers, i think where precipitating factors in the search on monday. josh, do we know if the fbi did in fact find these documents? we do not know that. we make that clear in the story. we do not know exactly what they have found. but at some point, trump s team will have an inventory of what they found and they may release it publicly later what they found. but we do not know that now. you know, earlier this week, we were talking about the thrust of this investigation, the potential threats of this investigation, and that entire conversation about whether the interest was very criminal, or one that was of national security. as this comes to light, the nuclear weapon documents that they were searching for, did you get a sense of what the
federal investigation into the removal of classified documents from the white house. quote, on the day that the search was executed, former president trump issued a public statement that provided the first public confirmation that the search had occurred. subsequently, the former presidents representatives have given additional statements to the press concerning the search, including public characterizations of the materials sought. as such, the occurrence of the search and indications of the subject matter involved are already public. now, we have also just learned some key context about the events that led up to the search on monday. nbc news confirms that trump received a federal grand jury subpoena this spring for sensitive documents the government believed he retained after his departure from the white house. this makes clear the department of justice tried to get donald trump to give the documents back, but eventually they had to take them back. as the new york times reports, quo
and that, along with interviews from a number of his aides, former and current advisers, i think where precipitating factors in the search on monday. josh, do we know if the fbi did in fact find these documents? we do not know that. we make that clear in the story. we do not know exactly what they have found. but at some point, trump s team will have an inventory of what they found and they may release it publicly later what they found. but we do not know that now. you know, earlier this week, we were talking about the thrust of this investigation, the potential threats of this investigation, and that entire conversation about whether the interest was very criminal, or one that was of national security. as this comes to light, the nuclear weapon documents that they were searching for, did you get a sense of what the ultimate intent is here? no, the ultimate intent is to get everything that is
documents that they were looking for were actually recovered in the search. what we now know this afternoon because we see the inventory and the search warrant is is, you know, there were four boxes of documents that were marked at this highest classification level. we, of course, don t know in any sort of detail what those documents contained, what they were about, whether or not they did pertain to nuclear programs. that s not spelled out in the court papers that we re all able to see publicly. we never expected they would be spelled out in those court papers in part because of the sensitivity of the matter. we stand by our reporting from last night which is based on rigorous beat reporting that the fbi when they went to mar-a-lago to conduct the search on monday were looking in part for classified documents pertaining to nuclear weapons. phil, i just i ll say i did not mean to disrespect your colleagues. here s the reality, like you re