we have a lot for you this hour, and we re following several major stories. president biden is about to sign a pact act, a major piece of legislation aim at expanding resources and benefits for millions of benefits exposed to those burn pits and other toxic substances. we ll take you live to the white house in just a moment for the signing. and it is just an extraordinary legal week for former president donald trump as he faces several major investigations. right now former president trump is sitting for a deposition with the new york attorney general s office, and this is in connection with a civil investigation into his businesses finances. it does come just two days after the fbi search his florida home known as mar-a-lago. the justice department was concerned trump had not returned sensitive documents. we have former details about how the president may frame his defense. let s begin this morning at the white house where president joe biden is about to sign that extra
arizona house speaker rusty bowers. bowers didn t just refuse to participate in trump s campaign to, i don t know, end democracy. he testified about it publicly before the january 6th select committee laying out exactly how team trump pressured him to throw out the legitimate arizona election results even if they admitted they didn t have a scrap of evidence to back up their vote fraud claims. after saying back in june after that dramatic public testimony that he would support trump in a rematch against biden, bowers had a change of heart and is now saying that he will never, ever vote for trump again. here s what he told abc news jon karl after being the subject of attacks from donald trump. i have thought at times someone born how he was and raised how he was and he has no idea what a hard life is, and what people have to go through in the real world. he has no idea what courage is. how do you explain the hold that he has, though, on republicans including a lot of repub
on this tuesday night. good evening once again i am stephanie ruhle. setback because we have a got a lot to cover. there continues to be more questions than answers about the fbi search of donald trump s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. and missy news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records in that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. former president and his allies have
s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. nbc news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records and that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street journal and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. the former president and his allies have relentlessly attacked the fbi and the doj for conducting the search and they have implied that president biden was behind it which the white house denies. no, the president was not briefed, was
voluntarily turned over 15 boxes to the national archives and records administration in january. sandra: the with question now, though, what prompted yesterday s raid on his home? fox news team covering now as we kick off a brand-new hour. phil keating has more on former president trump s reaction to all of this. peter doocy, the response from the white house. mike: griff jenkins is following a grand jury probe into the former president s handling of classified documents. sandra: david spunt is live at the justice department. this is not related to january 6th, that investigation? david: hi, sandra, not directly related to january 6th. this is related to the former president allegedly taking sensitive documents after he left the white house. it s important to point out, january 6th happened a couple weeks before president trump left office on january 20, 2021. what we do know, fox news is told by a source that inside mar-a-lago fbi agents looked in offices, safes and