

We know that in another case, something related to his clemency grant toward Roger Stone, his longtime advisor, was there as well. So for instance, there’s one document marked Info Related to the President of France.

We only know, Michael, certain descriptors of specific pieces of information that they took, the FBI took. Maggie, among these documents that you just described, do we know any specifics about what kind of secrets they contain, what kind of words were on the page? maggie haberman Got it, so the kinds of documents that are reserved for the absolute highest levels of government, really the most sensitive kind of information that there is. So SCI is a separate security clearance process that runs through the CIA that suggests an even narrower group of people who would have access to those pages. Then there’s TS/SCI, which is an abbreviation for Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information. So there’s TS, which means Top Secret, the highest classification. According to the inventory that was made public last week, there were 11 sets of documents with classification markings on them. So, Michael, there were several boxes of documents, other pieces of paper, and so forth taken from Mar-a-Lago during this search. What do we know specifically about these documents? maggie haberman So I want to start with the nature of the documents that FBI agents found at Mar-a-Lago. Because it’s still a pretty confusing story, I think, for a lot of people. So we want to talk through those developments and make sense of them. Since we spoke last with you, Maggie, right after the FBI conducted the search of Mar-a-Lago, there has been a lot of new developments, most of them broken by you and our colleagues. And it turns out, it’s the FBI searching the home of the former president. I always wondered what it would take to get you on “The Daily” twice in a week, a much desired-for possibility. I spoke with my colleague, Maggie Haberman. This is “The Daily.” Today, making sense of the latest developments in the case of Donald Trump and the highly classified documents that he stored at Mar-a-Lago. michael barbaroįrom “The New York Times,” I’m Michael Barbaro. I think this investigation is just getting warmed up. speaker 7Ī tight circle of former Trump White House officials are among those interviewed by the FBI. Sources say investigators are now scrubbing through security footage they subpoenaed from Mar-a-Lago. The Trump lawyer signed a statement in June, saying all classified documents at Mar-a-Lago had been turned over to federal investigators.

speaker 5Īs we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to time. His team now says he had a standing order to declassify documents the moment they were removed from the Oval Office. Since the raid, Trump’s explanations have shifted. The warrant revealing that Trump is being investigated for obstruction of justice and violating the Espionage Act. Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion to unseal a search warrant. And so Merrick Garland basically said, OK, fine, you want answers, I’ll show you the warrant. speaker 1įor the past few days, Trump allies and Republicans on Capitol Hill have been clamoring for the attorney general to explain this FBI search of a former president’s home. Please review the episode audio before quoting from this transcript and email with any questions. While it has been reviewed by human transcribers, it may contain errors. This transcript was created using speech recognition software. Transcript About Those Documents at Mar-a-Lago Here’s what we’re learning about the search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida home and what was seized.
