poll workers, law enforcement and now a hospital the threat is real. plus, the senate is a toss-up. diminished hope for republicans taking control. and mitch mcconnell now blaming candidate quality. that is code four, blame it on donald trump. with the clock ticking toward the midterms. the 11th hour getting underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i stephanie am ruhle. new evolutions about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago may soon see the light of day. several media organizations, including in bc, we re a south florida court today, asking a judge to unseal the affidavit behind last week s search and seizure at donald trump s florida home. just judge bruce reinhardt chilled the justice department he is inclined to release a redacted or edited version of the affidavit. that document details would prosecutors call probable cause, the evidence that brought the fbi agents to trump s home in the first place. prosecutors want to keep the entire thing under wraps. b
but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already risen to the top of the republican field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is shaquille o neal s shoe. oh my god! is that a real issue? he took it off after he handed it to me. i carry like this. tom brady s super bowl helmet. wow. this is mike tyson s belt. shock shoe! tom brady s super bowl helmet, mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is the new york times today describing trump s time in office. quote, white house aides described how excited trump was to show of all the material he had access to, including letters from the north korean leader kim jong-un, which he routinely waved
poll workers, law enforcement and now a hospital the threat is real. plus, the senate is a toss-up. diminished hope for republicans taking control. and mitch mcconnell now blaming candidate quality. that is code four, blame it on donald trump. with the clock ticking toward the midterms. the 11th hour getting underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i stephanie am ruhle. new evolutions about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago may soon see the light of day. several media organizations, including in bc, we re a south florida court today, asking a judge to unseal the affidavit behind last week s search and seizure at donald trump s florida home. just judge bruce reinhardt chilled the justice department he is inclined to release a redacted or edited version of the affidavit. that document details would prosecutors call probable cause, the evidence that brought the fbi agents to trump s home in
some of those documents. and then you have that effort by kash patel and some others, helping trump gather up documents by the russia investigation, and they tried to declassify them at the end of his presidency. they thought they were going to expose wrongdoing inside the fbi, and people were saying, wait a second, these are sources and methods, you can t with that stuff out. it s quite possible some of those documents found the way to mar-a-lago. there is a pending criminal investigation that the justice department is taking very seriously, investigating whether anyone mishandled these documents or otherwise broke the law. he was just stubborn and liked to grab stuff, and that is how documents containing nuclear information should end up in his private home in florida? we will find out. there is another big story for us, all about the former guy tonight. the guilty plea of his financial right-hand man, allen weisselberg. nbc s kristen welker we ll
named, people being able to identify witnesses by their description and the future witnesses in this case might be intimidated for that reason, i strongly suspect that many, many critical details, if not all of them, will end up being redacted in this thing, stephanie. because the judge is now giving the justice department a week to propose redactions blocking out portions of it. and the judge actually said, whether the final product makes sense or means anything to the public is not really my concern. this could end up being, he said, meaningless gibberish. so, it is very unlikely that we are going to see much [inaudible] but i do think that because he is [inaudible] stephanie, he must think, the judge, that there are some things and that affidavit that would inform the public that can be released. chuck, inclined to released, is not a done deal, but is certainly not with the doj wanted. how does that happen? you are right about, that stephanie. look, it is a little bit surprisi