Presented by Facebook.

Hey, good morning, Playbookers on Ragulman Ovalin. It's Thursday.

Here's two questions. What did the FBI know? And how did they know it?

It's her Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

There are two stories in today's playbook worth your time this morning.

One about Trump and the Wall Street Journal morning, one about Trump and the Wall

Street Journal and one about Biden and the Washington Post. They intersect with each other

in a way that gets to the heart of the most profound question in American politics. First,

there's a government informant inside Donald Trump's inner circle. That's the takeaway from

Alex Leary, Aruna Vizwanatha, and Sadie German from the

Wall Street Journal, who retelled the tale of the Mar-a-Lago Recordscaper with important new details.

On June 3rd, Jay Brat, Chief of Counterintelligence, and Export Control Section at the DOJ,

visited Mar-Lago to inspect a storage room that contained presidential documents.

By this point in a standoff with the government, Trump had already returned 15 boxes

of records to the National Archives, which subsequently found, quote, classified national

security information among the returned items.

Trump, who stopped by the June inspection to greet Brat, had told the government that

there was no more classified material in his possession.

The dispute it appeared when Brat showed up was about returning what Trump represented

to be non-sensitive documents.

Retaining non-classified documents is still a violation of the Strict Presidential Records

Act.

...