The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a- lago. prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trump s attorneys that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a special master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trump s office. more now from cnn s sarah murray. reporter: the justice department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the run-up and aftermath of the search at mar- a-lago. this is all a part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third- party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched m
tell us what else you ve learned. i mean, i think it s significant especially the photos yout discussed last hou that show just how this was organized. i think a key part of this is essentially them not trusting the trump team because after they had that initial grand jury subpoena that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump lawyer, name is redacted in this latest filing, so weis don t know based on the filing who it was, but has been reported publicly about this trump lawyercl said there was n responsive documents left. lo and behold when they went and executed the search warrant there were allec these document left. so there s still information we don t know about how they got the source of that information. but the key part of it is that they were right. we can see by the product what they were able to seize from donald trump s mar-a-lago facilityag down there that the information they had about himt continuing to hold onat to classified informatio
what the hell is the matter with us? i m not joking. think about it. what are we doing? president joe biden gives a fiery and impassioned speech in pennsylvania, vowing to ban assault-style weapons while calling out republicans for criticism of fbi following the search of mar-a-lago. we ll have much more of the president s remarks just ahead. meanwhile, there are several new developments in the justice department s investigation into the former president, including this picture from the doj, showing some of the documents seized. we ll walk you through everything that s happened overnight. also ahead, qanon and dangerous conspiracy theories. that s how donald trump spent his time yesterday on his fledgling social media platform. we ll explain how it is part of a growing trend for the former president. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, august 31st. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. we ll begin with that breaking news overnigh
let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. biden fights back after an onslaught of attacks against the fbi after the search of mar-a-lago. the president today did not hold back. now it s sickening to see the new attacks on the fbi. threatening the life of law enforcement agents and their families for simply carrying out the law and doing their job. look, i want to say this clear as i can. there s no place in this country, no place for endangering the lives of law enforcement. no place. none, never, period. yet today former president trump spending much of the day lashing out continuously against the fbi and the men and women who work there, sharing more than 60 posts in 12 hours on his truth social site, posts that are often delusional and many of them just plain untrue, like claiming the fbi helped rig the election and sharing one message that reads, quote, we can t let the fbi break the american spirit. well, this all comes as we re