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
despite the indictments thing, the jail thing, and even the mugshot thing, donald trump is still absolutely crushing everyone in the republican field. by double digits. coming up, we will talk to steve kornacki and an iowa pollster and said certain that shows trump leading desantis by over 20 points. that s an interesting date underneath there as well. those candidates do not know exactly what to do with those numbers. they haven t moved that much in a while. so they keep talking about looking forward, and not looking back, instead of attacking trump head on. i don t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january. so i want to focus on looking forward. i don t want to look back. we have to move forward. we ve got to quit living in the back. i look forward to having a conversation, and frankly, even a debate about the future of this nation. i think we need to move
media with the tv guy, formerly employed by fox. the next day, he may reportedly turn himself in. here s the crazy thing, as if all of that isn t crazy enough. despite the indictments thing, the jail thing, and even the mugshot thing, donald trump is still absolutely crushing everyone in the republican field. by double digits. coming up, we will talk to steve kornacki and and i will pollster and sell sir that shows trump leading desantis by over 20 points. that s an interesting date underneath there as well. those candidates do not know exactly what to do with those numbers. they haven t moved that much in a while. so they keep talking about looking forward, and not looking back, instead of attacking trump head on. i don t think it serves us good to have a presidential election focused on what happened four years ago in january. so i want to focus on looking
indicted thing, the jail thing, he s still so far ahead in the race. sitting at 62% according to a new cbs poll out just this morning. as he just conformed on truth social, he won t show up. we re not surprised by that. but he confirmed it just this evening. and notably, he said he wouldn t be doing the debates plural. so not just this week, but after that to. on wednesday, and what i predict be a lackluster display of counter programming. we re expect to see trump in a taped sit-down interview with tucker carlson on the platform formerly known as twitter. this debates going to be one where the rest of the candidates need to prepare not just talk about the differences between their energy plans. but also how to answer the question of whether or not the last election was stolen. somehow that s not a layup, it s a tricky one for a lot of them. clearly, the chaos, the clouds of the front runner will loom over everything on wednesday night, for most of this week. to be mocked