announced by the media. the attorney general took no questions. also tonight though, new questions about how the fbi learned about the alleged classified information at the trump facility. the specific document or document, did someone in former president trump s inner circle tip off the bureau? and what comes next in this high stakes legal back and forth? correspondent david spunt has the latest tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. bret, good evening to you. after days of intense political and public pressuring attorney general merrick garland stepped up in front of the cameras and told the nation the justice department filed a motion town seal the search warrant involved in that search of form everywhere president donald trump s home monday in mar-a-lago, florida. attorney general garland says the search warrant will reveal some of the items taken and he said unsealing this is in the substantial public interest. first, i personally approved the deci
administration. there are three investigating going on about russia meddling in the election in the united states. i don t think that most americans believe that the russians hacked into individual coins election systems. any country who wants to try to influence the outcome of any american election. i think mr. kushner eeg omission of this russia meeting probably bought him an appearance in front of all three, when if he would have disclosed more information on this front end, this may not be nearly the issue for him and the trump family that its become. i m glad to hear you say that and glad to have you on the program. as details unfold in the meeting involving donald trump jr. and multiple russians, what
on wealthy power brokers that have committed human rights violations. so that led putin to cut off americans being able to adopt russian children. that was really part of a conversation, really knowing the specific intent about what was offered if anything about those lawyers who came in talking about hillary clinton information, what is unclear now, is did they leave any information, did they share anything of value or purported value those are questions that we don t know, and jay sekulow says nothing happened because of it. investigators want to dig into that and find out what information was shared and if it connects to any of the actions that the campaign took. joining me new york city a reporter from mother jones.
and that he, you know, was there coordination with donald trump and donald trump jr. when the statement came out. and most surprisingly to me is we have not heard the name michael flynn brought up in this investigation at all. let s not forget michael flynn was the one who had to resign because sally yates, the acting attorney general, said he had been compromised and open to russian blackmail. what we ve learned this week is that it s possible that the crime in this case is worse than the cover up. the cover up has been bungled, there s no doubt. they ve done a horrible job getting information out. but on top of it, it seems that a lot of people and a lot of high-powered positions are lying. and i have to wonder what are they try to cover up. and howard and i both kind of exclaimed when you said the michael flynn point, yeah, yeah, good point. yeah, that s a really great point. yes, and was he there in that meeting, we don t know. and did he know about the meeting? i suspect a
civilians, they ll use often oligarchs, they ll use others, they ll look for relationships. here i think the e-mails made quite clear that the russian government had damaging information. they used that to get to the campaign to find out whether donald trump wanted this information was to go through people he had done business with. who had they done business with? well, they had done business with a gentleman that is known as the russian donald trump who had worked on the miss universe pageant who had business discussions with the president over having a trump tower in russia, so they go to this oligarch, they go to the son who knows the son of the now-president. they find out, yes, there is a deep interest in this, and then they dispatch this advocate for the kremlin. now, why would they choose her? they might choose her because