announce that additional emails had been found. people argue that helped former president trump get elected. so to find ourselves here, i d be curious to know what she thinks. a lot of unprecedented. right? we are awaiting the special counsel making a statement here in about 25 minutes. that is the expectation here. but also just when we re talking about the sheer amount of documents, we ve touched upon this a little bit. but this period of time from may 23rd to june 2nd, it says in sum before trump attorney one s, evan corcoran s review of trump s boxes in the storage room, which we know is a review of incomplete, hugely incomplete amount of documents, nauta, his valet, at trump s direction, moved approximately 64 boxes from the storage room to trump s residence and brought to the storage room only approximately 30 boxes. there s a lot of missing boxes there. and neither trump nor nauta informed evan corcoran of this
from this they ve got a lot of goods. to that point, we are moments away from hearing for the first time from jack smith, the special counsel who brought this 49-page indictment. and in the details here, in the meticulous listing of the chronology and the documents and the stakes and the classified markings and the text messages from trump aides, the notes to trump attorneys, at first glance here it seems to be that jack smith not only studied the law but studied the mueller report, the impeachments and how trump works. and there was a big conversation last night was why was jack smith yielding the first 12 hours to donald trump. i think he s answered the question here. and it will be fascinating to hear what he does and what he doesn t say, what he will say, is he willing to answer questions, history does he take no questions? but this is the counter. last night was a vacuum. this is a thud. it bears repeating that this was the crime that really didn t have to happen. he didn t ha
mar-a-lago is not a fortress. it s a hotel. this is also a place a target for foreign adversaries. and we have seen that certainly in the past. but john and dana, particularly when you look at these statements from the former president memorialized by his then-attorney, it s him pressing in sort of graduating way. at first it s the i don t want anyone looking through my boxes. well, what if we just don t respond? well, what if we don t have anything here? what if there are no documents? clearly things he is asking his attorney to do that he should not be doing. we have memorialized here something that had been reported but now it s written in paper, in the document, the president granting that he no longer had the power to declassify. reading on page 16, trump, as president i could have declassified it, staffer, yeah, laughter. trump, now i can t, you know, but this is still a secret. staffer, yeah, laughter. now we have a problem. trump, isn t that interesting?
information. there s also they are in their phone records, right. you have right here trump and nauta on may 30th speaking by phone for approximately 30 seconds. at 9:08 a.m., less than an hour later removing 50 boxes from the storage room. by the way, that that passage you just read is something that appears in some of the documents that the justice department used to get the search warrant of mar-a-lago. they knew, they knew at the time that documents had been moved and that fewer boxes had been moved back to the storage room. they knew that back in august of last year. so a lot of the investigation that has gone on since then has been focused exactly on explaining, you know, exactly what the former president was doing to obstruct. the ways he was instructing his
that. but you better believe that a jury pool is going to be wondering why do you want those documents and inferring something. because these are dangerous to be out there in a public ballroom, in a bathroom, in a bedroom, in a shower an insecure shower, insecure storage facility spilling out. we see that in the photos, in an insecure estate or resort yes there is some security. but this is not the white house. this is not a large skiff, it just isn t. sit dangerous for this information we re dangerous for this to be there. everyone else they know that from bid minister. just to be clear, everyone else with a security clearance from an airman up to chairman of the joint chiefs of staff is required to consume these documents or store these documents in highly secured facilities. and we re looking right now, as you see on the screen there