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and the thing that is remarkable, is how many times the fbi and the national archives went back to the trump organization and said, hey, we know you have documents, turn them over. and then we learned from the article last night not only with president trump personally involved in reviewing what was sent back to the government but there were still documents left afterwards. i think that is why we saw this search warrant. it sounds like they tries every measure possible to get the documents back under their control and the cia and nsa and fbi, this wasn t some mistaken taking of boxes from the white house. this was cherry picked information across all agencies. highly classified and compartmentalized and it really speaks to why. why keep these when you know that the fbi and national archives have been to your place different times, why go to such length and that makes the last tranche of documents particularly interesting after the other reviews and submissions back to t ....
Damaging sort of thread that i ve seen across the board in those documents is the espionage act. what were those documents to be used for. it is one thing if president trump, former president trump was trying to show off kim jong-un letters. it is a very different thing if there were national secrets in there that were a value to a power power or maybe being used for some sort of economic purpose. so all of this needs to be weighed with probability. and i think as the investigations, we need to really watch from the department of justice to why they had to go this length and why trump would not turn over the last tranche of documents and rather than having to be taken back by the fbi. you re talking about america s adversaries and those who might wish the country harm and would like to get a peek after those documents. i ve been thinking about america s allies and what this might suggest to them about the security of any kind of confidential information they may have handed over to t ....
The president and wasn t done in a professional or a consistent manner. former fbi special agent and msnbc national security analyst clint watts putting some perspective on the news this morning out of the new york times. thank you so much. we appreciate it. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is brushing off concerns about the state of american democracy. speaking to reporters in his home state of kentucky yesterday, the top republican was asked to comment on a new poll from nbc news where voters ranked threats to democracy as the number one issue facing the country. here is mcconnell s response. we have a very solid democracy. um, very little election fraud. there is some. i mean we ve got people in kentucky that go to jail for that. it happens occasionally. but our democracy is solid. and i don t think of the things that we need to worry about, i wouldn t be worried about that. throughout the primary season ....
Macron of france, that would be catastrophic if there were secrets that were there or being used in a way that were other than just souvenirs. meaning they were some sort of economic or political gain or to be held over someone s head. and that is the scariest part and it cuts down on intelligence sharing from partners. what partner of the united states wants to share information into the u.s. government knowing that president trump might be running for re-election again in the next two years or someone else might come in and feel like they have the need or desire for political purposes to broadly declassify all sorts of information. the second part is the stress it puts on the intelligence services in the united states. it was very clear throughout the trump administration officials were worried at all levels about not sharing too much information with the president. there is nothing worse than that. the president should have all of the information at his disposal but they were worrie ....
Archives which alerted the justice department. eventually leading to the fbi search of mar-a-lago two weeks ago. according to the times, another set of documents at mar-a-lago was given to the justice department in june and additional documents then were recovered in the fbi search. all told, 300 classified documents recovered. nbc news has reached out to the doj, the fbi and the white house and president trump s spokesperson for comment. but did not immediately receive responses. joining us now, national security analyst for nbc news and msnbc clint watts. it is good to have you with us this morning. this is a story we ve been talking about for two weeks. people suspected there were many classified documents based on what we heard from the initial warrant. but no one knew there were 300 classified documents as the new york times reports this morning. that is right, willie. i think each day we learn more. ....