the documents had been returned. it also including this new photo showing documents with classified markings laid out on a carpet. some of them found in a desk in the former president s personal office. the filing also says some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and justice department attorneys needed additional security clearances to look at them. doj also says trump s request for a special master is quote unnecessary and would significantly harm governmental interests including national security interests. the former president has until 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight to respond. a federal judge in florida will hold a hearing tomorrow on his request for a special master. with us now to take a closer look, nbc news homeland security continue julie ainsley, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and frank figliuzzi, an msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say
rights. on his republican opponent focused on inflation and crime. in florida former republican governor turned democratic congressman charlie crist will challenge republican governor and potential presidential candidate ron desantis for the governor s mansion. chris will be here to talk about his uphill battle. the senate candidate in florida is congresswoman and former orlando police chief val demings winning the nomination to challenge marco rubio. and in new york s bitter feud between two powerful democrats for one manhattan seat because of redistricting, jerry nadler defeated caroline maloney. also on the political front, president biden is back from vacation today and will be announcing an extension on student loan forgiveness, a decision unlikely to please partisans on both sides. and a somber independence day in ukraine as the country also marks six months today since russia invaded with boris johnson showing up in kyiv and president so lent skit addressing the u.n. $
The documents had been returned. it also including this new photo showing documents with classified markings laid out on a carpet. some of them found in a desk in the former president s personal office. the filing also says some of the documents were so sensitive, fbi agents and justice department attorneys needed additional security clearances to look at them. doj also says trump s request for a special master is quote unnecessary and would significantly harm governmental interests including national security interests. the former president has until 8:00 p.m. eastern tonight to respond. a federal judge in florida will hold a hearing tomorrow on his request for a special master. with us now to take a closer look, nbc news homeland security continue julie ainsley, a former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst and frank figliuzzi, an
Msnbc national security analyst. julia, what else are we able to learn from this court filing? one of the things, buried in a footnote, they say the investigation is not simply about retaining records that should have gone to the national archives and should have been preserved, that there s a criminal nature and it s not just a matter of appointing a third party to check behind the fbi and doj. this is about incredibly sensitive material, as you can see right there, that was not properly restored and really doesn t belong the former president. that he doesn t have a privilege to claim over this. they have found a small subset of these documents that they think might be privileged to him, protected under attorney/client privilege, and they will turn those back. the thing they re saying is there s no right for the former president to say that a special master should go through these documents because they really
Don t belong to him anyway and the sensitivity of these documents are so high. we re even learning that some of these documents we can tell just by the classifications of these that they could out very sensitive information, including human intelligence sources for u.s. intelligence placed around the world in dangerous situations. and if those names got out, those placements got out, that could not only put their lives in danger, it could also seriously harm american national security interests. that s what the fbi is claiming as well as a breadth of information that points to obstruction, including the fact, as you pointed out, that trump s own lawyers said they handed everything over when, in fact, they did not, and the fact that they believe that some of this information, some of the documents were moved from a storage room to other locations to obscure the search. just in that storage room alone, they found 76 classified documents and over 100 in all, jose, so quite a lot to unpack