we are staying on top of this story. let s begin in washington first with our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. good morning again. tie all these threads together because those three headlines i read all came after garland s really extraordinary press conference not press conference, statement. reporter: statement, right. exactly. you wish it was a press conference. we tried to make it a press conference, and he wouldn t bite. but as you pointed out, look, the context here is important which is that this has been a fight that s been going on for about 18 months, the former president took documents that should never have left the u.s. government s possession and ended up at his beach house in palm beach. the fbi, the national archives have been trying to get it back for all of that time. and among the documents, according to the washington post, that the fbi has been trying to get back is documents are documents that have to do with the u.s. nuclear weapons
we are staying on top of this story. let s begin in washington first with our senior justice correspondent, evan perez. good morning again. tie all these threads together because those three headlines i read all came after garland s really extraordinary press conference not press conference, statement. reporter: statement, right. exactly. you wish it was a press conference. we tried to make it a press conference, and he wouldn t bite. but as you pointed out, look, the context here is important which is that this has been a fight that s been going on for about 18 months, the former president took documents that should never have left the u.s. government s possession and ended up at his beach house in palm beach. the fbi, the national archives have been trying to get it back for all of that time. and among the documents, according to the washington post, that the fbi has been trying to get back is documents are documents that have to do with the u.s. nuclear weapons