and scientists in china are tracking a new animal based virus that s infected at least several dozen people. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore and 7pm in the evening in washington, where the us attorney general, merrick garland, has defended thejustice department s decision to seek a search warrant for donald trump s residence at mar a lago earlier this week. mr garland said he had personally approved the move, noting that upholding the rule of law meant applying the law evenly without fear or favour. he said the department ofjustice would make the warrant public, because of the substantial public interest. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi and justice department agents and prosecutors. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and thejustice department are and the justice department are dedicated, patriotic public servants.
let s get straight to our top story. we re just learning right now that a federal court in florida has instructed the u.s. justice department to confer with former president trump about its request to unseal the search warrant and to tell the court by 3:00 p.m. tomorrow if he opposes it. our reporter is working the story for us. kaitlan, what s the latest? reporter: wondelf, we re talg about a court document under seal right now, and the judge has set a deadline of 3:00 p.m. tomorrow to get an answer whether donald trump and his lawyers want this document out there in the public s see. so the justice department requested in court to unseal this document. they want to give the courtesy to trump s team, as you normally would do in court, to get a response. the arguments the justice department is making is that it s in the public interest to put this document out there. and that a lot of it is already been spoken about by trump and his team that a search occurred at mar-a-lago
he now has obliged and will make some remarks. let s go to caitlyn polanz. the former president can clear up a lot of these accusations. he has a documented inventory of what was taken from his home on monday as part of this search. and he thus far has decided not to disclose that. that s right. really we have heard mostly the trump team, his lawyers, himself trying to fill in the blanks about why they believe there was this search of mar-a-lago. we ve done our best to report out, but we are able to say there are national security concerns, there were concerns that the people at mar-a-lago weren t being entirely forthcoming about what was there, that there was a need to go back in after a subpoena with this search to get boxes. but i wanted to highlight one of the things that director wray said in this letter, he said when all the facts come out, we stuck to the process, and the process here, that is a process that s in court. so the reason that trump is able to go out ther
the attorney general saying he, personally approved the warrants to carry out the raids and has filed a motion to unseal it. justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premises located in florida belonging to the former president. copies of both the warrant and the fbi property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former president s counsel who was on site during the search. upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. under my watch, that is precisely what the justice department is doing. i, personally, approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. judge jeanine: garland also defending the fbi from criticism in how it carried out the search of trump s home. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi
a commercially available lock or whatever lock they had on it, we needed it, no one is being charged with a crime? i don t think that i don t think all of that will happen. i don t think that he will say anything about who will or will not be charged with a crime. i d just be surprised if that conclusion has been reached at this point. i also think that he will if he does go down this road he s going to address why a search warrant was necessary. it may not be in detail. i don t think he ll do anything to out any particular source or sources they had. but i do think that if he addresses this he has to address why they proceeded by way of search warrant and couldn t trust a subpoena to be the mechanism that was used. and then i think he s going to really assure people about the rule of law, about the system that s used, about the probable cause standard, about what a court needs to do, that it s not just the justice department, and assure people. and i think in many ways