still more classified documents at the private club, closed quote. that signals there was potentially additional material there of interest to the u.s. government, even after trump turned over those 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. and last night, the director of the fbi chris rwray refused o answer questions about this search. he expressed real concern surrounding violent threats against fbi agents. take a listen. any threats made against law enforcement including the men and women of the fbi as with any law enforcement agency are deplorable and dangerous. and this morning, cnn has learned that some within the justice department believed that the department should have provided a public statement on the search. so let s start right there with our cnn senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, we have been talking a lot this week about the real escalation from a meeting that investigators had back in june, with trump lawyers at mar-a-lago, leadin
someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may still be more classified documents at the private club. so all of these new developments signal that there may have been additional material there, even after the former president turned over 15 boxes to the national archives earlier this year. we also have new reporting from cnn this morning that some justice and fbi officials internally have argued that staying silent on this search is harmful to the department, and the public s interest, in part because trump and his allies filled the void with their rhetoric, largely not fact-based on this. let s go to evan perez, he s been following the story. let s begin with the first thread from the wall street journal, which mentions this inside tip that led the feds to do this search. what more can you tell us? reporter: well, that s right, poppy. i m told similarly that the fbi had a witness who told them that there may have been additional classified docume
the receipts showing exactly what the agents found, catalogued and took, seized because it wasn t trump s property from the property compound you see on your screen. that includes 11 sets of classified documents, some at the highest level of classification. one set marked top secret sci, top secret compartmentalized info and they are only to be viewed at special facilities and mar-a-lago is not one of them. there are three sets of secret and three confidential. all of this comes after donald trump returned what looks like the partial amount according to the government not authorized to be there. 15 boxes that went back in january. now on this basically third go around, they re still finding top secret documents. property receipt does not explain the substance because the government doesn t want everyone to know what is in there. washington post reporting fbi agents were looking for classified documents that could relate to nuclear weapons when they carried out the search. nbc
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