quote, encouraging the immediate release. we ll see. trump has had the documents in his possession, though, since monday s search. though there is nothing stopping him and his legal team from making it public at any time. the forward motion here came from attorney general merrick garland, making a big statement yesterday and making it clear that he personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant for trump s home. and also new this morning, the washington post reports the fbi searched trump s home seeking classified documents related to nuclear weapons. let s begin with more from washington on this looming deadline for donald trump. what are you hearing about this? reporter: well, we did see that statement almost 12 hours ago from donald trump saying he s encouraging the re the release of the documents. we haven t seen the documents or a court filing yet. i checked a few minutes ago in the southern district of florida, court docket for the search warrant. noth
republican of the house intelligence committee, congressman turner, say, you know, we want some more information on what this is about. of course these republicans are out on a limb talking about the overreach of the department of justice, and now they may have to walk that back a little bit or a lot. so they are out there now saying, look, we need some more information on just what this was about. this opens a whole sort of can of worms here. why did the president want this information, was it just carelessness, was it recklessness? was it done purposefully? we don t know, but it does help explain the actions of the government and the department of justice and why they felt this was so important and why after dealing with the trump people they felt they had to initiate a search. and we ll learn a little bit more about that today. exactly. we re going to learn more at some point this afternoon.
so if you are a republican senator and you re looking at this, are you thinking anything will get better? are you thinking you want to stake your political future on this guy? because what he s signaled is you re seeing all of it, the corruption, it recklessness, the naturalism and the determination that he doesn t think he actually needs to get his act together and you re going into an impeachment trial. charlie you re onto something. who s going to grieve the departure of donald trump in the white house? who s going to grieve it? see, this is the problem. republicans are being told it will be a disaster if you re told to remove him, but can you imagine the national relief of his departure but also for republicans who have to start calculating how much more political capital are they going to have to spend? how many more talking points are they going to have to spew?
corruption, it recklessness, the narcissism, yet he doesn t think he actually needs to get his act together. and you re going through an impeachment trial. you re onto something. who s going to grieve the departure of donald trump in the white house? who s going to dpreegrieve it? republicans have been told it s going to be a disaster if you voted to remove him, but can you imagine the national relief of his departure but also for republicans who have to start calculating how much more political capital are they going to have to spend? how many more talking points are they going to have to spew? how many more convoluted positions? right now they can hide behind process but you know it s going to get worse. there may be more smoking guns, it s going to take place on television, and then you have a president who seems to be escalating everyone one of his
because i was scared. i was scared this person in the apartment was going to hurt me, and i m so sorry. i m sorry. joey, do you see a woman on the stand who is at risk of being convicted of murder? i do and i do not. here s the issue. this is a strategy of horrific proportions. imagine being in your own apartment and someone comes in and you re as confused and con founded as they are because they believe it s their apartment and you die. that should have never happened and it did. now the issue is whether it s criminal. whenever a person is put on the stand and she is charged with murder, which is an intentional crime, and with manslaughter, which means she acted with negligence. we call it recklessness. how did this happen. those are what she s facing. however, it comes down to the issue of and whenever you testify and you have a defendant