justice department s opposition to a judge appointing a so-called special master to examine some of the government records seized by the fbi at donald trump s florida home. neal katyal, andrew weissmann, and matt miller will give us the expert analysis. the most important thing to keep in mind, the single most important thing to know about the trump lawyers filing tonight is that it does not say one word about something included in the justice department s filing last night. it could get some of the trump lawyers indicted for obstruction of justice. one of the very important pieces of evidence in the justice department s filing last night is a copy of an under oath affidavit written by one of the trump s lawyers, inside and signed by one of the other trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everyt
where it was. i, for, one have been doing that for my entire life. i can tell you my passport is in my desk in the upper right drawer. that s where it s been for my entire adult life. if you find something with my passport, i guarantee you i knew it was there. i know exactly what s in the drawer with my passport, it s the most important drawer in the office. it s the drawer where the most important stuff goes. and all trump s office, that means his passport and stolen classified documents. the original trump story was that all of this material was moved from washington, d. c. to florida, on its way to the national archives, which is in washington, d. c.. but then, donald trump did not send any of it, none of it, to the national archives for a year.
market accounting. this is someone who took highly classified documents, and secreted them in his hotel slash residence, and then lied repeatedly about it. and he may very well end up with his own lawyers being witnesses against him, just like paul manafort did. so, this is not a complicated case. yes, there are still things that need to be done. that the basic building blocks are, as neil said, if it were anyone else, this case would be over. and, matt miller, we know donald trump frequently has guests in that room. we ve seen photographs of people in that room where he was also hiding classified documents. and oh, by the way, there s a whole other box that was found in that room, the three in the desk are just separate from the others that are all in the box in the same room. and he has visitors there, one of his lawyers just said tonight, just moments ago on
trump lawyers, swearing under oath on that day that at that moment they were handing over to the fbi and a federal prosecutor a trump s home, all of the government documents that were at donald trump s home at that time, everything. those lawyers said under oath, to the fbi, in this affidavit, that they conducted a search of donald trump s home, after receipt of the subpoena in order to locate any and all documents that are responsive to this subpoena, any and all responsive documents. accompany by this certification. that means they accompany this piece of paper. on june 3rd, the trump lawyers said to the fbi and to federal prosecutors, under oath, that you now have all of the documents that belong to the government belong in this home. that was a lie.
s if they were in his pockets. that s where donald trump keeps his tic tacs, so stolen classified documents, they go on the desk. with his passport. the only thing that the fbi has returned to donald trump from the search is his passport, which they scooped up when they were scooping up stolen government records. if the passport was not near or with, or on top of one of the stolen government records, the fbi would ve taken it. the fbi quickly decided that they were not going to need donald trump s passport in this investigation, and so they returned to him. do you know where your passport is right now? you should. you don t want to have to go looking for when you really need it, because then you ll never find, it you ll miss the plane. always keep your passport in the same place, all the time. as soon as you get home from a foreign land, put it right back