Sandra what could happen . John im John Roberts in washington. Wow, sandra. It just doesnt stop. Nevery day its new to us. John im Sandra Smith in new york. We have a big hour for you. This case stems from a yearlong investigation. The president s son is charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors concerning 1. 4 million in owed taxes that have since been paid. No statement yet from the first family, and Kamala Harris declined to speak to this moments ago, that we did just hear from Karine Jeanpierre. She is declining to comment specifically as well, although she said there will still not be a pardon by the president , john. John yes, the answer that question is still a no, and as we pointed out, right up until it is a yes. And President Biden ignored questions from the press as he boarded Marine One earlier. Listen to this. Mr. President, will you commute your Sons Sentence . Are you glad your son has pled in his case . John yes, the dulcet sounds of the auxiliary Power Unit on a
mixed in with a mess of whole other stuff. i find that odd. some kind affjunk drawer happening because, look, some of the nation s most important secrets potentially and again we don t know what is in these documents. we still don t know. we know the type of document, the classification. bullet the fact a document of this potential could be mixed in with clothes and gifts and press clippings, do you see possibly an innocent explanation interest this? let s think about a benefit of the doubt. can one be extended? not at all. i mean there is absolutely no good reason for donald trump to have taken any of this. i mean, there s no justification for why he d have to use it. i mean it just these are documents that belong to the government. they should have been left behind. he has not come up with any justification as to why he had the right to have these documents. he claimed at one point recently that he declassified them. but he never made that argument in the course of,
in a storage room. this december despite one of his lawyers telling the government they ve given everything back before that search. now agents found government documents mixed in with personal items like gifts and clothing. there are also dozens of empty folders that were marked as classified. i want to bring in cnn s sara murray, political analyst laura barone lopez, and nick akerman, and also we have national security attorney bradley moss. a great panel to talk about this very important issue. i want to begin with you here, sara. you ve been going through the inventory documents from this mar-a-lago search. tell me what is standing out to you? well, i mean, certainly it s the volume. they say there are 11,000 government documents that are not classified. but also, when you dig in to the classified documents you, have you 103 documents. we re now learning that amounts to hundreds of pages in these documents. but 18 of those are top secret. 54 are secret. 31 are confident
were tossed in with non-classified items like newspaper clippings, even items of clothing. some of these documents are so tightly restricted they are only to be viewed in secured facilities. joining us now with more, cnn correspondent cara skin nel, and former prosecutor, michael moore. just the gross sloppiness of these boxes is obviously telling of last days of this chaotic administration, and hearing there were empty envelopes and top secret documents, items of clothing, a lot of them. i don t know why so many clothes were strewn around the white house, so what does this tell us about what the judge is doing, and what we need to know. right, so this is the inventory that the federal prosecutors put together and the judge unsealed it today. no one objected to it. it does give a sense of the final days of the chaos of how the records were kept. as you said, many top secret, they need to be held and maintained in a very secure way which is the issue with the whole investiga
weekend. welcome to the beat, i m katie phang in for ari melber. the new detailed inventory list of property the feds seized from trump s mar-a-lago resort. i have it here. this is it. and tonight i can report what the feds took from mar-a-lago, from the 45 office, all storage rooms, and all rooms or areas where documents could be stored. but the most alarming detail is what was not found. the doj claiming 48 folders that were marked classified were empty. raising the prospect that some of the united states government s most closely guarded secrets could remain unaccounted for. but other experts say it could simply be disorganization. and agents need to document every piece of physical evidence they come across. whatever it is an investigation will uncover. also seized, 42 empty folders labeled return to staff secretary/military aide. so in total, the top line numbers. 48 empty folders with classified markings. 42 empty folders labeled return to staff secretary/military aid