attacks on the fbi by congress members and the former president, just two days before what the white house says will be a primetime presidential address on the soul of the nation. if that weren t enough, his new tough talk comes just as the documents case is about to take another turn, with the justice department about to file new court papers tonight, aiming to block attempts by the former president to slow it down or stymie it. that is the backdrop to what joe biden said today in northeastern pennsylvania. let me say this to my maga republican friends in congress, don t tell me you support law enforcement if you won t condemn what happened on the 6th. don t tell me. can t do it. for god s sake, whose side are you on? whose side are you on? meantime, on his social media outlet, the former president today launched one post after another about the 2020 election, which he now says should be rerun, and the fbi. now, without specifically leveling blame, joe biden today spoke
investigation. and when they searched, the government seized twice as many documents marked classified as the trump team had given them when they claimed they had handed over everything. and the filing included this photo, documents you can see, the red cover sheets, the yellow cover sheets, recovered from containers spread out on the floor by the fbi and the classified markings are clear, top secret, secret, highly classified information there, brianna. that s right. the fbi seized 33 boxes containing more than 100 classified documents during its search earlier this month. three of those classified documents were not found in boxes, but in trump s desk. and for all of those reasons the justice department vehemently opposes trump s request to appoint a special master to oversee the documents. the trump legal team has until tonight to respond to this latest doj filing. at a hearing on thursday, a judge will hear arguments before making her final decision on whether or not to
president biden looking to flip the script on republicans when it comes to crime the call to refund the police. could he be risking use of the unprecedented rate on mar-a-lago to score political points ahead of the midterms? will it work? our bream team panel. a university refusing to allow an lgbt club on campus. they say it s an issue of religious liberty. bombshell claims by the justice department in the formal objection to the trump team request for the neutral party to look to the documents taken from mar-a-lago. bill melugin. good evening. this doj filing came in moments ago. the doj filed this as their latest response tonight to former president trump s lawsuit over the fbi search of his home in their filing tonight, doj is saying that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the federal probe into the classified documents that were taken by the fbi from mar-a-lago. specifically here s what doj is writing. in particular the government developed evidence that a search l
i am simone sanders thompson, and i have something to say. we finally have new details about documents the fbi seized at mar-a-lago earlier last month. as part of an investigation into donald trump s potential violations of the espionage act and the presidential records act. okay, here is a refresher. trump railed against the fbi s execution of the legally issued search warrant, and filed for the appointment of what is called a special master which would examine the documents for attorney-client privilege information. but here is the thing, the justice department already did that! so judge arlene cannon who is considering the request for a special master, well, on thursday she demanded in a hearing that the fbi s property would seek the unsealed. we now know the fbi found 18 documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret, 31 documents marked confidential, 48 empty folders with classified banners, and more than 10,000 unclassified artifacts. i am t
investigators saying this left unchecked, the doj will impugn, leak and publicize selective aspects of their investigation. one of trump s attorneys on fox news last night. they don t understand. something could be marked top secret, could be marked classified. the presidential records act, he would have said this is declassified. it doesn t get a new marking all the time. he s left the office. it is a complete public spectacle. we should note nowhere does it mention the idea of him declassifying any of these documents. in fact, the former president s team agrees in a special master should have top-secret security clearance, but here s the thing. according to dozens of pages of court documents essentially all of the new information that we learned in the last two days, about the former president and his lawyers possibly lying about these documents moving them to keep them hidden s even think pes cher of apparently classified documents found in trump s office, all of tha