in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
to be blindsided by this announcement to say, hey, court, they want to see the receipts. they ve contacted out that attorney apparently for advice and they are considering asking the judge to even block the request by the doj to make that unsealed. that move would seem a bit odd, wouldn t it? trump himself was publicly revealing that the search even took place and then he blasted it as politically motivated and there was republican allies in congress and right-wing media who pushed his accusations. might add, not too highly. they dehanded transparency. merrick garland as the attorney general is calling trump s bluff, isn t he? the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premises located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day of the
mar-a-lago home. tonight, the washington post is quoting sources who are saying that investigators are searching for classified nuclear documents and other items. that there was some deep concern among officials about material potentially ending up in the wrong hands. sources don t say if such documents were recovered, but this follows an extraordinary move by the attorney general, merrick garland. he asked a federal court to unseal the warned that permitted the search to take place in the first place. sitting off a quick chain of events tonight. a source saying that a trump and his team appear to be blindsided by this announcement to say hey, we want to see the receipts. they ve contacted attorneys independently for advice and considering asking the judge to even block the request by the doj to make that unsealed. that move would seem a bit odd, wouldn t it? trump himself was publicly revealing that the search even took place. he blasted it as politically motivated. there
just begs the question as to why. why fight so hard for these documents? but i do want to point out. there are some empty folders in here. empty folders that are marked classified. and i don t know about you, but you probably have manila folders somewhere in your office, some place that s empty. this is not the typical case or office drawer most people are talking about. mar-a-lago, top secret classification. does that mean nothing was in them to begin with, they re being recycled? or does it mean maybe information of a top secret nature could actually be missing now and unaccounted for? yes, so that s certainly one of the unresolved questions here. and obviously i believe that s something the fbi would like to know is what was originally in there and when. it certainly could be the case that when they were packing up the white house to move everything to mar-a-lago, they just stuffed things into these folders that had nothing to do with classified information that they have previous