The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the search at mar alago. This is all a part of the Court Battle Playing Out over whether there should be a Special Master, an independent third party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched maralago. The trump tea
the department reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mar-a- lago. prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. the court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trump s attorneys that all classified material had been returned. the justice department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a special master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. the court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trump s office. more now from cnn s sarah murray. reporter: the justice department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the run-up and aftermath of the search at mar- a-lago. this is all a part of the court battle playing out over whether there should be a special master, an independent third- party appointed to review the documents that the fbi sees when they searched m
we are learning the fbi seized the cellphone of a republican congressman in relation to the january 6th investigation. more on that in a moment. but first, just in, the former president is about to be deposed. sometime in the next few hours donald trump will face prosecutors from the new york attorney general s office. this is the culmination of a civil investigation into the trump organization s finances that has lasted for more than three years. investigators are probing whether the trump organization used false or misleading asset valuations in its financial statements to obtain loans, insurance benefits, also tax benefits. kara scannell who has been all over this story for years joins us now. great to see you. so the former president being deposed. what can we expect today? it s a big day and a long time coming. sources tell us that donald trump will be deposed today, will face off with the lawyers from the new york attorney general s office and, you know, this is som
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planning to do with these documents, and how damaging is this for trump, politically, as people start to learn more about this, and certainly those images we see of documents strewn across the floor? yeah, 18 months after leaving office, we still wonder, what do you want with them, what are you doing with them? what do you need them for? i think it is a matter of donald trump being very proprietary and feeling that he is above the law. that these are mine. he has used that phrase a number of times but these are mine. they are not his. they do not belong to him. he knew they weren t his. so, what has happened is that, things like that picture, the picture that we have all seen, of the documents strewn across the floor with top-secret all over them, that picture is incredibly damning to donald trump, because a picture like that is about as welcome as hair on a biscuit. you don t want to see it, it is something every voter can see and identify, pictures can be worth 1000 words and this