ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president s florida estate when he left office. at the time, the agency said it had asked the justice department to investigate. a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news, boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. trump s attorney released a statement claiming the former president and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj, quote, every step of the way. trump slammed the search as, quote, prosecutorial misconduct
6th hearing, i have to say, i am struck by the enormously fruitful fact finding, that the committee has done so far, and continues to do. each day, there is new information, learning new things. so, most recently, the committee met with former overstocks eo, patrick byrne, that s the overstock guy, about the now infamous december 2020 white house meeting. he attended a, or a group of outside trump advisers tried to sell the president on the coup. that s just today, getting testimony from him. today, they got testimony from a former white house aide, named garrett ziegler. never heard of him before. who, reportedly, let the ragtag group of coup plotters, into the white house, for that crazy coup plotting december meeting. still, a year and a half after this happened, the committee, the new testimony, learning new things. additionally, the committee is also pulling on, another, i think, important threat. you may have seen things about this, we ve covered it a bit in the news to
them, he looks at them in their crumpled piles and says we are not sick men. as a kid in the 80s, when i saw that, hoo, i felt it. i wasn t chinese. i had no idea of the history of japan and china, but as a black kid in america i understood the need to stand up to your oppressors. and just since the beginning i understand that all people s struggles are connected. it felt like me and bruce were the same. of course, he meant way more to asian americans than he meant to me. but bruce s fights onscreen were nothing compared to his fights offscreen, a fight for representation in media, a fight to end racism by teaching martial arts to everybody, a fight to stand up for his people. anti-asian attacks and hate crimes as we know have been rising sharply thinking episode is about how asian americans are still fighting those fights. no more hate! is it happening? it s happening. oh my god. that s mine. don t touch it. i think we re eating family-style. that s mine
transparency in this unprecedented situation and he set in motion essentially a process where the justice department can come and propose redactions to this crucial document that backs up that search and seizure at mar-a-lago last monday. so during this hearing there was a media lawyer advocating for transparency here, saying the judge is in the place of the media, in the place of the public and becomes the gatekeeper here for what is released widely. but the judge also was hearing from the justice department, from jay bratt, the head of counter intel, one of the top attorneys that we know has been working on this investigation. and one of the things that bratt emphasized is that this is an ongoing criminal investigation that needs to be protected, there s grand jury activity described in that affidavit, there are several witnesses whose interviews with the fbi or with the grand jury are also described in that affidavit, that it does have extensive information about the inves
as the committee vice chair liz cheney revealed, the panel has alerted the justice department in washington that trump tried to contact a witness in a possible attempt to influence testimony. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we re coming to you live from jerusalem to cover president biden s historic trip here. he leaves the white house in just a few hours and arrives here tomorrow. more on this important visit. that s coming up ahead. but first, we want to break down all the new revelations from today s hearing on the january 6th insurrection. what we learned about trump s actions then and now and new accounts of bedlam inside his white house. let s go to our congressional correspondent ryan nobles. he s up on capitol hill. ryan, walk us through all the dramatic evidence that emerged today. yeah, that s right, wolf. the january 6th select committee had a lot to unpack today. they provided spe