Good afternoon I'm del Walters in Atlanta. This is Newsy
reports. The news breaking just before airtime. The
former president donald trump will not object to the
court unsealing the warrant and the documents related
to the search of his home in mar a lago florida. Coming
less than an hour after the Wall Street Journal
releasing an exclusive detailin what we might learn.
The journal reported that federal agents found 11 sets
of classified documents inside the former President's
home. Four of those being top secret documents. Now the
new york Times is reporting that some of those
documents were seized as part of an investigation into
a violation of the espionage act and two other laws.
Newsy's Willie James Inman is in Washington with the
latest and Willie has majored in speed reading becaus
I know you just got your copy. Yeah, that's right.
we can in fact confirm that these documents, t
search warrant that was executed is because of a
violation of the espionage act. As you just mentioned
from that reporting there from the new york Times.
That's what this search warrant that was unsealed
because of the unprecedented na of the search of a
former President's home in the public interest and
scrutiny surrounding doj effort in this case. Now we
can also confirm via this warrant that we're getting
just moments ago from from a federal authorities from
this federal judge being able to unseal this document,
it essentially outlines a trove of documents, some
classified in nature, some highly classified even that
were retrieved from the former president's home. Now
remember just just want to back up for our viewers a
little bit here that the National Archives is in charge
of a tape king presidential documents, pr
records. And they had made a request to the former
president because they were in search of some documents
and some months ago earlier this year. And then when
they were able to find out a little bit more about that,
get their hands on some of those documents, they didn't
ask the doj to further investigate. So that's part of
the timeline here trump's lawyers have been in
communication with the Departme of Justice in this
case they went down to mar a Lago. They searched they
look at where some of these documents were being stor
and he asked the former president's team to furt
secure some of those documents with an additional lo
So that's part of the back story here. But the spend is
that we got this information. This revelation th
President's home was searched from the former president
himself when he sent out that bombshell statement on
monday. The Department of Justice. The FBI typically
does not talk publicly about these investigations. But
Attorney General Merrick Garland yesterday mentioned
because of the public interest because of all of the
speculation surrounding this ca that he took the
unprecedented step of asking a federal judge to unseal
this warrant and that that is indeed what has happened
today. Yeah. And they were looking to figure out what
the underlying crimes might have been behind the search
itself. That espionage act is the phrase that that
stands out the most have we heard from the former
president How is he responding Yeah. Well former
President trump has been sending a series of statements
sending out them out to members of the press. Also
putting them out on true social his social media
platform. I want to bring up one of those statements
that the former President sent for our viewers. It says
quote number one. It will it was all declassified
number two. They didn't need to seize anything. They
could have had it any time they wanted without playin
politics. Breaking into MAr a Lago. Now I want to
clarify a couple of things here. The FBI didn't break
into mar a Lago. They had a search warrant. That sear
warrant was executed. Uh It looks like everything went
by the line here judging from the search warrant itself.
They had even the timeline of when they could actually
do this. So it's important to point that out. And the
former president has criticized this this move. He even
compared it to an alleged that Former President O
took millions of documents to Chicago that led the
national archives to respond and say that was indeed
not the case. That didn't happen that those docume
from Former President Obama had already been taken into
into possession and have been stored as they are by the
letter of the law. So the former president looking to
deflect a little bit here with his statements. He did
set the spin cycle about and releasing the informa
in the news that his home was being searched by the FBI.
But nonetheless after more and more information comes
out, you see here that he's trying to deflect here a
little bit while also being a bit miss truthful in his
statements as well. Bill. Yeah. And some of those
documents were supposed to have only been read inside
what is called a skiff or secure reading. I know you'r
familiar with that. I think our audiences has now
learned that language as well. Willie James m enforce
in Washington. Willie Thank you very much. Now, back to
your reading assignment. Also in full transparency for
our viewers. Our parent company E.W. Scripps has joined
other news organizations and filing a motion for the
court to unseal all of the documents related to the
mara Lago search warrant that includes the underlying
affidavits. Now scripts along with CNN NBC and the
Washington post believes the public's interest
outweighs any arguments in favor of keeping those
records sealed.