ongoing. this document, and it s completely unredacted form, is what convinced a federal judge in florida to sign off on a search warrant at trump s club to the ex week go. more than half of those today pages are redacted, even full or part. but despite that, we learned quite a bit from it. here we go, page one, quote, the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. on january 18th of 2022, the national archives received from the office of former president donald j trump, 15 boxes of records. i just want to pause here for a second. remember this was a document that was written before the search warrant that was executed on august 8th. it is kind of starting to see just how much evidence the government had on hand to support probable cause that even more classified documents remained at trump s palm beach estate.
[laughs] of course that s obviously why you get that philosophy degree. very well established. you have founded application for that not many others have my friend. i know your alma mater is proud of you. happy affidavit day, i m trying to make upon thank you chris. let me put an end to this crosstalk. i m gonna start my show now. have a good weekend. thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour. happy not-so-summer friday. the federal court system has an electronic filing system called pacer. you may not be familiar with it it stands for public access to court electronic records. pacer is a nifty tool for attorneys to upload filings for cases and for the public to access the filing system. today at noon, pacer crashed because shortly after northeastern, we got this. all 38 pages of it, including cover sheets and exhibits. the highly anticipated fbi affidavit that supported the governments executions search warrant on mar-a-lago. and it is highly unusual that w
governments application to executions search warrant on mar-a-lago. and it is highly unusual that we are going to see it, even a redacted copy of it while this investigation is still ongoing. this document, and it s completely unredacted form, is what convinced a federal judge in florida to sign off on a search warrant at trump s club to the ex week go. more than half of those today pages are redacted, even full or part. but despite that, we learned quite a bit from it. here we go, page one quote, the government is conducting a criminal investigation concerning the improper removal and storage of classified information in unauthorized spaces, as well as the unlawful concealment or removal of government records. on january of 2022, the national archives received from the office of former president donald j trump, 15 boxes of records. i just want to pause here for a second. remember this was a document that was written before the search warrant that was executed on august 8th.
Welcome to our new special. New york versus donald trump. Im ari melber here. We will bring you this brand new break down of the third week of the historic and first ever criminal trial of a former president and a current candidate as well. This was a tough week for the defendant that was gripping dramatic testimony from the woman at the center of the hush money plot of all the witnesses we have seen, she has become the most famous through her encounter with trump. And there was testimony and key days of testimony for witnesses who were in trumps orbit who could speak about what she said and corroborate some of the financials. For the jury, we have more on that as well. Prosecutors have been laying out the pieces of this scheme to influence the 2016 election and we can tell you as we recount why it was such a tough week for trump, we also know according to the public remarks here, we know we are near the end of this thing. We have two witnesses left. The star witness Michael Cohen will