s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. nbc news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records and that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street journal and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. the former president and his allies have relentlessly attacked the fbi and the doj for conducting the search and they have implied that president biden was behind it which the white house denies. no, the president was not briefed, was
united states authorizing this unprecented search? yeah, andrea, what o sources have told us about the search warrant that was executed is that it was it did specify that the fbi was going to be looking for claified information. and information from the president related to presidential records. but this is something that officials, not just in the fb but in the national archives as well has been dealing with over almost a year now. the bac and forth between trump s counc and the arcves started shortly after auguration, once they realized that there were items missing in the archives as they were going through the presidential records that they had. d 15 boxes were already picked up in january. that continues and there was more extended back and forth. d the only reason why archives hadn t stopped that process of continuing to recover additional items on top of these additional boxes of classified and presidential records is because classified information was found
worth of his holdings, something with major implications for his taxes and the future of his company. but facedith those questions, he s decided not to talk. in a statement, trump said, quote, i once asked if you re nocent why are you taking the fifth amendment. now inow the answer to that estion. when your faly, your company and a the people in your orbit ve bece the targets of an a defense of donald trump by undermining the government using unsubstantiated allegations. trump s own lawyers were doing that just yesterday suggesting that fbi agents searching trump s home were breaking the law. this is a joke. i m concerned that they may have planted something. at this point, who knows? i don t trust the government and that s a very frightening thing as an american. i don t think they would go to the extent of trying to plant information, i think they just make stuff up and come up with whatever they want. that s the way they will have to proceed. they don t have anything.
basement storage area, which they broke a lock to get into. they left with multiple boxes of evidence. what was inside those boxes we still do not know. we could know more. donald trump and his team could tell us more. they could release the copy of the search warrant, which they have. it would likely tell us the criminal statute the fbi relied on to conduct the raid and they could release a copy of the inventory they took. agents are required to leave one as a receipt. but donald trump is not doing it. instead he is using the search to his political advantage are calling the search a witch hunt and claiming without basis that the federal agents involved are crooked. quote, everyone was asked to loaf the premises. they wanted to be left alone and wanted nobody to see what they were taking or planting. these documents usually run about 30 to 40 pages so it would tell us a lot. and attorney general merrick garland could comment as well, but as of now he is not. so what we are l
initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l