Hi everyone, happy Friday. It has been building all week long. You can feel it. The drip, drip,

drip of disclosures about the strength and the specificity of special counsel, Jack Smith's

evidence in the Mar-a-Lago documents investigation. And today, the New York Times is naming names.

The New York Times today reveals the workers who move the boxes containing White House documents,

ahead of a meeting between Donald Trump's legal team in DOJ at Mar-a-Lago. New York Times reports

that the two employees were a maintenance worker and Trump's valet, Walt Nauta, and that they

quote, move the boxes into the room before a search of the storage room that same day by Evan

Corcoran, a lawyer for Trump, who was in discussions with Mr. Brad of the FBI. Corcoran called

Justice Department officials that night to set up a meeting for the next day. Prosecutors have

been trying to determine whether Trump had documents moved around Mar-a-Lago or sought to conceal

some of them after the subpoena. Part of their interest is in trying to determine whether documents

removed before Corcoran went through the boxes himself, ahead of a meeting with Justice Department

officials looking to retrieve them. This brand-new reporting, which we should mention has not been

independently verified by NBC News, raises a whole host of questions when viewed in terms of whether

it helps to answer a central question in the case. Did Donald Trump clearly and flagrantly commit

obstruction of justice? As Jack Smith barrels toward a possible indictment of an ex-president,

we have started this hour each day this week with breaking news that could lay out the building

blocks that amount to an obstruction case. But it is just one branch of what we believe that

investigation encompasses. The other, of course, is the actual mishandling of classified documents,

including some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets. It is, by nature, more opaque to us as

a viewing public. But as a matter of U.S. national security, it is a paramount importance to help us

understand the stakes of this investigation at this moment, someone who perhaps more than anyone

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