fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga winners raises the stakes for the midterms. an explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do. that the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a distant different to investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well know he has mocked others for in the past. we have more o
filling the vacuum as trump lawyers refused to release the fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga primary winners raises the stakes for the midterms. and explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do that. the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a different investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well
grabbed onto my pants, my belt, my arms, my hands anything that they could. they begged me not to leave at the end of the day. they begged me about information about where my their parents were. i find it that s matches with her story with one of her been here for years. but it is important here independently from a government official from what we are still waiting to hear from government officials there side of the story and why this happened. so many stories of children being reunited with their families and having experience so much trauma that they re completely disassociated even after their completely reunited with their families. just speaking of a long term trauma that s inflicted on these children. all these players here, the role that this woman played was if she did not small to sign off on this a lot of pressure. the goal was not to absolve her of any responsibility. christina stunt was a deputy secretary and she signed off a zero tolerance full stop. but the back stor
off on this a lot of pressure. the goal was not to absolve her of any responsibility. christina stunt was a deputy secretary and she signed off a zero tolerance full stop. but the back story of how that came to be is very important, because it speaks to these inherent weaknesses in the federal system and federal government. she was basically told things several things that were untrue. one, that this type of prosecution initiative have been perceived in the past which said that these outcomes that wouldn t come up because she must have figured at these prosecutions were down in the past she would ve heard about them. if they were to go she was also assured that there was systems in place to prevent prolonged separations, to ensure that families would be reunified. and these assurances didn t just come from the white house people like stephen miller, who people expected to provide them, but also people like the head of customs and border protection. and people who had served for dem