House Judiciary opens investigation into FBI handling of Mar-a-Lago probe

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan opened an investigation on Monday night into special counsel Jack Smith's handling of former President Donald Trump's classified documents case after an admission that some of the evidence was altered or manipulated.

Smith’s team said the order of documents in some of the boxes of memos that were seized by the FBI from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate was altered or jumbled in a court filing Friday, Just the News reported.  But the mix-up had not been acknowledged prior to the filing, both of which could be major problems for the prosecutor.

"This acknowledgement presents grave concerns about the Department's commitment to impartial judgment, whether the Special Counsel's office misled a federal court, [and] whether the Special Counsel's Office strenously upheld the 'highest professional standards' of the Department of Justice," Jordan said in a letter to Justice Department's counsel on the office of professional responsibility.