woman who impersonated in heiress, by passing security at mar-a-lago, with ease, a year before the fbi search. here is the reporter on that story earlier on this network. there is an active investigation. they re just trying to determine, you know, a lot of the background, how she found her way into there. she went back to mar-a-lago in and out. she was driving a brand-new mercedes-benz suv, and she, at least, 5 to 6 trips, in and out of mar-a-lago, with really nobody checking her i. d., nobody really finding out who really is she. all the guests and their thought she was a rothschild. msnbc has not verified this report yet. frank, if true, it would seem to underscore just how potentially dangerous than his handling of these documents, as we talk about this through a security lens? yeah, look. this is a real time teachable moment. we are all looking at the issue of security around mar-a-lago. and here comes this report, but
stuff. it s too sensitive, and they re not securing it. and then negotiations go on. look, i spent 25 years in the fbi. eventually, heading up all counter intelligence and espionage investigations. these classification markings that i saw today really caused the hair on the back of my neck to stand up. hcs, human lives are at stake. you know, there s been a lot of close but not there, accurate descriptions, or inaccurate descriptions of what this means. these are human beings who said, i m going to betray my country, and i m gonna work for trump america, at the risk of death, or imprisonment. and myself or my family are at risk. they the reporting is in what hcs documents. si, those are electronic intercepts, the most sensitive things that our intelligence community cannot do, and the techniques used. it could be singular nature. conversation could be one of these documents that only one
good evening once again. i m alicia menendez in for stephanie ruhle. it was nearly three weeks ago that former president trump first told the nation, the fbi was executing a search warrant at mar-a-lago. today, americans had the chance to see some of the justice s reasoning for that move. the heavily redacted affidavit that underpins the warrant has been unsealed and made public. the document supports much of which was already known about the criminal investigation to whether trump and his aides took secret government papers, and failed to return all of them, despite repeated demands from senior government officials. nbc s peter alexander has more on today s bombshell developments. reporter: the 38-page affidavit focuses on what the fbi says it found in 15 boxes mr. trump returned to the national archives in january. mixed in with newspapers, magazines, and presidential correspondents were 184 classified documents, 67 of them marked confidential. 92 marked secret. and 25 documents
mar-a-lago, with ease, a year before the fbi search. here is the reporter on that story earlier on this network. there is an active investigation. they re just trying to determine, you know, a lot of the background, how she found her way into there. there is an active investigation. they re just trying to determine, you know, a lot of the background, how she found her way into there. she went back to mar-a-lago in and out. she was driving a brand-new mercedes-benz suv, and she, at least, 5 to 6 trips, in and out of mar-a-lago, with really nobody checking her i. d., nobody really finding out who really is she. all the guests and their thought she was a rothschild. msnbc has not verified this report yet. frank, if true, it would seem to underscore just how potentially dangerous than his handling of these documents, as we talk about this through a security lens? yeah, look. this is a real time teachable
from here? great. this is actually one point. we are on two tracks here, and we ve been from the start in this counter-intelligence. but now also criminal prosecution. and this is where they potentially diverge. you can have real donnybrooks within the department of justice. where they want to bring prosecution, and the security folks that you cannot use that stuff. frank is right, but even if they go on obstruction, you can expect trump to say, here s how it will pull out alyssa. he ll say, i cannot defend myself unless i have access to this ultra classified material. and therefore its agree matter. i think, you know, he s got a pretty limited playbook. i have no doubt that they thought it through and there are ways to charge, and ways to prove, to get around it. where does it go now? i mean, this is the big revelation. we could ve thought this was just a retrieval mission. we know now that it is much more serious, including what the fbi has been doing since.