office is attacked. plus, new reporting of trump s paranoia over so-called rats wearing wires at mar-a-lago. u.s. press secretary karine jean-pierre live in studio on us there is a big wins for the biden white house. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m alicia melendez, in for chris hayes. today, attorney general merrick garland calls donald trump s bluff, speaking publicly for the first time since the fbi search at mar-a-lago, garland announced the department of justice is seeking to rig leased the search warrant and and accompanying list of items seized. unless the former president objects. just, now the department of justice has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt related to a court approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premise is located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day o
unsurprising. but good to hear. for instance that mr. garland had personally reviewed and authorized the search warrant, not at all surprising. i was a little bit disappointed, alicia, that they were not yet moving to unseal the affidavit to the search warrant. let me explain. basically, there are three parts to a search warrant. the search warrant is essentially one page order that the fbi hands to the person in the house and says, we are authorized to be here, a federal judge said so. the inventory or the return is an itemized list of things that they took from the house pursuant to the search warrant. that is one of the things that mr. garland said they were going to move to unseal. but the really interesting document is the affidavit. that is where you find the basis for probable cause. that s where the government explains the case procedurally, and factually. and that is not yet been unsealed, nor has the government asked for that to be
response is that this has been highly unusual case procedurally and factually in that the media showed no attention or interest in the case when we did try it in an open courtroom. and the media started reporting erroneous information that someone on behalf of the defendant started reporting prior to her sentencing. which put us in a very unusual situation to try to correct the misinformation. this case was being discussed in legislative circles in tallahassee and, in fact, two legislatures came to me to visit between rile and sentencing to discuss the facts in this case. one was senator gibson. mia johns and tony hill who she says came in to discuss the fact of the case. why wouldn t we think they were interested in the facts of this case because the case could influence law being discussed in tallahassee? my first question would be is this case coming up as you discussed the changes to the stand grournd law, warning shot provision, that comes up for discussion on thursday? first of