police after firing a nail gun into the fbi s cincinnati field office. while on saturday, armed protesters gathered near the fbi s office in phoenix, arizona. and in the last 24 hours, just checking the ex-president s truth social account, he is still releasing statements criticizing the fbi and justice department, just as his explanations for why he even had classified documents at mar-a-lago keep shifting. as the new york times lays out, first, he says that he was working and cooperating with government agents, who he claimed had inappropriately entered his home. then, when the government revealed that the fbi had recovered nearly a dozen sets of documents that were marked classified, he suggested the agents had planted evidence. finally, his aides claimed he had a standing order to declassify documents that left the oval office for his residence and that some of the material was protected by attorney general/client and executive privilege. the evolving arguments are ex
on the political front, our correspondents have the latest on tomorrow s two big primaries for prominent republicans on opposing sides of the trump divide. january 6th vice chair liz cheney and former vice presidential nominee sarah palin. we begin with the fallout from the fbi s search of former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. joining me, nbc justice and intelligence correspondent ken delanian. ken, the latest on the investigation, the increased security, the concern about threats to the fbi and to law enforcement, the criticism of merrick garland, all of it. the most disturbing part is the fbi and dhs issued a joint intelligence bulletin yesterday saying they had seen a massive uptick in specific and credible threats to federal law enforcement. this was reflecting reporting we did last week and open source intelligence firms are also seeing this in message boards and chat rooms online. we re not just talking rhetoric here. we re talking specific threats. they re eve
migrants that they don t really want to send back to mexico to begin with. complicated, indeed. miriam jordan, thank you for your time. that wraps up the hour for me. i m jose. follow the show online. i thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. good morning. i m andrea mitchell in washington. following the aftershocks of the supreme court s decision to overturn roe v. wade radling the political landscape. thousands of americans on both sides of the issue in red states and blue have been taking to the streets since friday s decision. the majority protesting against the decision. the polls show most americans do oppose it. i am in fear for every woman in the country. it s painful today. it really hurts. you can t believe our country has gone backwards. democrats control. they have the majority. if they abolish the filibuster and decide to do something about it, they can. new pressure on president biden to take ste
to that? why didn t something voluntary or a subpoena, why didn t that all work? but there is a second way in which that is relevant and that is to a potential criminal case because that really goes to establishing the criminal intent that this wasn t an accident. that there were repeated efforts that were rebuffed and while some documents were returned not all documents were returned. so really strong evidence of intent could come out of what happened during that period and that we may momentarily learn more about. joyce vance, what are you looking for when these, when the computers get back up to speed and we see what the judge has ordered to be unsealed? well, it is interesting, andrea. there are confusing notations on the pacer system andrew has just noted has crashed. that is the court system where lawyers every day file their pleadings in court and judges
he authorized the search himself. and of course we know the judge who has reviewed all of this material was persuaded by the probable cause in the affidavit to say that the fbi had the authority to go in. so there is a lot to learn. it will take us a little time as we get the document to read through it to discern what is new and to put the pieces together so viewers will need to be patient with us a little bit. we expect to learn some things but maybe not the biggest things about this very certainly captivating investigation with so many secrets about secrets and what has been kept at mar-a-lago. andrea? i know you ll be standing byment ryan reilly as well watching the computer for every post. joining us now, senior member of special council mueller s investigation of donald trump and former fbi general counsel and also with us three former u.s. attorneys, joyce vance, harry litman who also served as deputy assistant attorney