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sensitive. officials say these were taken from mar-a-lago even after donald trump s team claimed they had handed over everything. i m john berman with brianna keilar. while you were hopefully sleeping the most comprehensive filing yet from the department of justice, explaining what they found at mar-a-lago, why they executed a search warrant. the government says it developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room at mar-a-lago and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s 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 handed over everything. the filing included this photo, documents that had yellow tabs, red tabs, you can see right there, marked secret, top secret, sensitive. these were taken from containers and they were spread out on the floor by the fbi. this is how the fbi chose to displa ....
today. we begin with blockbuster revelation the justice department. in a court filing last night prosecutors say classified documents were, quote, likely concealed and removed from a storage room at donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. the filing making it abundantly clear the justice department is focused on efforts by trump and those around him to obstruct their investigation. the document also includes this photo, and you can see in it several folders there seized by the fbi. they are clearly marked top secret and secret. it is important to note these photos from the fbi represent their evidence that they were documenting as they do on a regular basis. this is not to show how they were discovered. prosecutors are asking a federal judge to deny the former president s request to have a special master appointed. trump s legal team has until tonight to respond to all of this. let s begin with cnn s evan perez live in washington with more on these new allegations and there i ....
subpoena and finally a search, investigators have retrieved 48 boxes including at least 320 classified documents, including 72 marked confidential, 108 secret, and 42 top secret. now, the filing as one former top fbi official puts it obliterates claims that the fo former president and his lawyers had been cooperating and negotiating in good faith to return the records. okay. so let s lay out the time line for you. the national archives had been working for months to get all of these missing records from trump even while he was in office. in january of this year, they finally got 15 boxes of records that trump had taken with him to mar-a-lago, though they did not belong to him. once the national archives saw the reckless way trump had handled so much sensitive information, they contacted the doj for help getting other classified documents back that were still missing. according to this filing, one of the most significant concerns was that highly classified records were ....
materials were likely concealed and removed from mar-a-lago as part of an effort to obstruct the federal investigation. correspondent david spunt starts us out tonight. is he in palm beach, florida. good evening, david. john, good evening to you. on the eve of a federal court hearing, where president donald trump, former president donald trump s legal team will appear before a judge to ask for a special master to go over documents seized from mar-a-lago earlier this month, the justice department is laying out a new timeline with brand new details. federal investigators focusing on potential obstruction of justice over the handling of classified material taken during a day long search of former president trump s florida estate. in this court filing, the justice department says, quote: government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. this after the trump team was ser ....
information classified at the highest levels. for context that s more than twice the amount that had been handed over in june after a grand jury subpoena. some documents were so sensitive government officials needed a higher level of security clearance just to review them. the doj says government records were likely concealed and removed and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. we will find out what that could mean and why those seized passports may actually be relevant after all. here is what we don t know at this hour, how will trump s team respond? they have until 8:00 p.m. tonight and how will the judge rule after that special master hearing tomorrow? the doj says a special master would, quote, significantly harm important governmental interests, including national security interests. we will dig into all of that and more with our team of reporters and analysts. let s bring in nbc s julie ainsley former u.s. attorney barbara m ....