and saying that he was able to declassify whatever he wants. joyce, put that make sense of that for us? explain that to us. well, i d love to make sense of it, katy, but it doesn t make much in the way of sense. it is a shocker that the former president would try to distract from his own problems but invoking barack obama who by all accounts including this official one complied fully with the presidential records act. when it comes to these new suggestions that trump could have declassified these documents on his way out the door, this rings a little bit too good to be true. and certainly the president has declassification authority, he can do it with far less need to dot the i s and cross the t s than someone else could. but if for instance i had walked out of my office with tss, ci information which we re being told what was recovered in the execution of this search warrant, it is clear that if i had refused to turn it over or tried to keep it hidden saver a request was
this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with this breaking news. the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. we have it. you may have heard, and most importantly, as you see here, this is something we don t usually get. we ve never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that we d be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald trump allegedly took or stole, property of the u.s. government and intelligence material. we re going get into this right now. we start with what s in here. we don t start with the law, although it is the law that brought us this information. we start with the search warrants property and inventory list. lets take a look. you re going see at the top how this works. search and seizure warrant. you see that? page 1 of it. then on page 5, and if we can, we ll bring this to you in full. can we br
6th committee. what more will americans learn about the former president. january 6th committee member congressman adam schiff will be here. one-you way ticket. washington and new york struggle to cope as border states bus thousands of undocumented migrants up east. it s just a mean and cruel thing. what is the long-term solution on the border? texas congressman dan crenshaw is coming up. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering just how strong that red wave will be after months of democratic concern and despite persistently high inflation. democrats in washington, d.c., are now feeling more hopeful about their chances to maintain control of the u.s. senate this fall. polling in key battleground states where republicans had hoped to defend or pick up seats now appears to be trending blue. and senate republican leader mitch mcconnell is blaming, quote, candidate quality after a series of trump-backed hopefuls with liabilities rapin
a judge will decide whether to reveal more information about the mar-a-lago search and former vice president pence says he d consider talking to the january 6th committee. what more will americans learn about the former president. january 6th committee member congressman adam schiff will be here. one-way ticket. washington and new york struggle to cope as border states bus thousands of undocumented migrants up east. it s just a mean and cruel thing. what is the long-term solution on the border? texas congressman dan crenshaw is coming up. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is wondering just how strong that red wave will be after months of democratic concern and despite persistently high inflation. democrats in washington, d.c., are now feeling more hopeful about their chances to maintain control of the u.s. senate this fall. polling in key battleground states where republicans had hoped to defend or pick up seats now appears to be trendi
we re already looking at this material, and we have got a process in place to protect it. reporter: in a new court filing, doj says it has identified a limit set of materials that could contain attorney/client privilege information. the progress report coming after former president donald trump s team asked a judge for a special master, to oversee the evidence uncovered in the search. we have a lot of problems accepting everything in face value that s coming out of doj these days. it s a very politicized place, i m sad to say, and there s still a need for a judge to get involved on every aspect of this. reporter: this as the fallout continues over how trump handled classified documents after leaving documents. this guy we now know 184 classified documents, 25 of them top secret. and by the way, countries that want to do us harm want to see these documents. reporter: avril haines tell congress officials are conducting a damage assessment, including an assessment of t