june. about that investigators say this, quote, the fbi uncovered multiple sources of evidence indicating that the response to the may 11th grand jury subpoena was incomplete and that classified documents remained at the premises. the government also developed evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government s investigation. all of this is what led doj to obtain that search warrant for mar-a-lago. during that search agents found more than 100 classified documents at trump s residence. here s what doj says about that misfiling. quote, that the fbi in a matter of hours recovered twice as many documents with classification markings as the diligent search that the former president s counsel and other representative his weeks to perform calls into serious question of representations made in the june 3rd certification and cast doubt on the extent of cooperation in this matter. this
that the messages were missing back in february the ig didn t push the department on why the texts were deleted nor did he try to retrieve those messages. these missing records are just a part of a mountain of missing pieces of the puzzle related to january 6th that pose a challenge for the january 6th select committee as well as the justice department s probe into the insurrection. that poses a to investigate the actions of the inner circle. a spokesperson for the select committee telling nbc news that the panel is sharing 20 witness interview transcripts with the department of justice. that news was first reported by politico which adds this, quote, the committee did not indicate which transcripts would be part of the initial tranche provided to the justice department, however prosecutors recently deposed two top aides to former vp mike pence, mark short and greg jacob who both had previously interviewed with the committee and it would be of high interest to investigators
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o
hour. the announcement comes after five hearings this month that were chock full of really juicy, previously unknown details and lots and lots of brand new evidence on the lengths that trump and trump officials and trump advisors and trump allies went to try and secure a second trump term illegally. the committee s chairman, bennie thompson had said more hearings were set for next month as the committee absorbs a mountain of new information from documents from the trump white house and tips from the public as well as new witnesses coming forward. politico reported this about the work of the committee in recent day, quote, the select panel has maintained its investigative work even as it ramped up its pace of hearings. documentary filmmaker alex holder who had extensive access to the trump family met with investigators last thursday morning after getting subpoenaed for his select panel for his recordings and his testimony. the panel also sent a letter to virginia tom a thomas,
capitol on his behalf. here were witnesses including jared kushner on what was behind that statement. i sat and spoke to miller about putting together for draft remarks for jan 7 that we were going to present to the president that we felt we had to call for further de-escalation. from what i understood at the time and from the reports coming in there s a large concern of 25th amendment potentially being invoked and there were concerns about would happen in the senate if the 25th was invoked so the primary reason that i had heard other than, you know, we did not do enough on the 6th and we need a stronger message to get out there otherwise this will be the legacy and think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don t do this. there are already talks about invoking the 25th amendment. so to be clear according to jared kushner and cassidy hutchinson, sworn testimony, it was concerns about the president s cabinet finally after years of talking