About Those Documents at Mar-a-Lago

<p>Last week, the F.B.I. took the extraordinary step of searching Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and Florida home. Their goal? To find materials he was thought to have improperly removed from the White House, including classified documents.</p><p>An inventory of the material taken from the search showed that agents seized 11 sets of documents with some type of confidential or secret marking on them.</p><p>We explore some of the latest developments in the case.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/maggie-haberman?smid=pc-thedaily">Maggie Haberman</a>, a White House correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>Mr. Trump and his allies have given often conflicting defenses of his retention of classified documents. These shifting explanations<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/us/politics/trump-documents-explanations.html"> follow a familiar playbook</a>.</li><li>The Justice Department’s<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/12/us/trump-investigation-takeaways.html"> warrant for the search and two critical supporting memos</a> shed considerable light on the Mar-a-Lago investigation.</li><li>Here’s a timeline of the<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/16/technology/trump-search-misinfo-timeline.html"> former president’s false and misleading statements</a> on the search.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>.</p><p>Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.</p>