department, were not allowed to look inside these boxes. they said they were explicitly prohibited from doing so. but they also followed up, asking trump s attorneys in a letter to further secure the room. they did not explicitly say, put a padlock on the door. but they said, until you hear from us again, until further notice, further secure the room. because they were worried about who could get access to that room. trump s team took that as a directive to put a padlock on his door. coming to his home and providing security advice, which is how trump s team is describing that june 3rd meeting, is not the same as them following up on a grand jury subpoena that had been issued to trump s team back in may where they were asking the return of any documents bearing classification markings. you just see how distorted the two events here are of the simple meeting where a grand jury subpoena had been issued to go and get these documents and how trump s team is framing it in this filing. so,
there is an expectation to privacy and the amendment basically, the fourth amendment says you re going to be secure in your home and possessions and any searches have to be reasonable. and so to have a reasonable search, the government has to come in as they did here and provide probable cause there was evidence of a crime, a crime had be committed and evidence of that crime existed at mar-a-lago. they certainly did that and the proof is in the pudding in what they came up with and took. the papers filed today completely tried to down play the whole business about what occurred in june and then later in terms of turning over other documents in responding to a grand jury subpoena. they try and portray this as just the usual give and take when the archives get involved with the president setting up papers and this was basically just giving security advice.
the president, it was conducted in the midst of this standard give and take between the former president and the archives regarding presidential library contents. and with the movement being the trump team literally allow doj lawyers and fbi investigators to come into his home and provide security advice. it goes on to say the government gratuities sly included that photo and they re filing, and say the government pretends these are not historically important moments. so, this is how the trump team is sort of trying to set the stakes as we go into this hearing tomorrow. of course, it is important to remember that the government got the search warrant. it was authorized by a judge. and there was a whole lot of give and take, it appears, between the trump team and the justice department. it was not necessarily as cooperatives as the trump folks are trying to lay out as far as the justice department is trying to. layout let s bring in andrew mackay, former deputy director of the fbi, an
and take between former presidents and norah, that s the national archives, regarding presidential library contents. and with a movement, quote, i m quoting from this, literally allowing doj lawyers and fbi investigators to come to his home and provide security advice. that is one spin on the june 3rd meeting, because of course, we know, we now know that those investigators went there, they wanted to get the rest these documents, as they said in their filing last night, when the council show them the room where these documents were being kept, that storage room, they said trump s counsel explicitly prohibited them from being able to look in the box, to open them, to see if there was anything marked classified in those documents. that s also when a trump attorney signed that letter saying that there was no more classified information to the best of her knowledge, still at mar-a-lago. obviously, the search in august proved that that was not the case, that there was still a lot of classif
warrant exactly, per se. all right, andy, stand by for a second. i want to go back to kaitlan collins who has been reading more. what are you seeing now, kaitlan? john, there s a notable part in here where they re talking about basically they re contesting the idea that the justice department is acting fairly here. and what they re pointing to really going back to is the search of trump s home, saying that the justice department is saying they re moving in a fair-minded and ethical way. and they re saying the search warrant executed at his home in the midst of a former give and take between former president and archives and with the movement, literally allows doj lawyers and fbi investigators to come to his home and provide security advice. that is one spin on the june 3rd meeting because of course we know that we now know that those investigators went there. they wanted to get the rest of these documents. as they said in their filing last night, when the counsel