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
everything. and trump was pretty upset about the search and he put out a statement that said they even broke into my safe. they even broke into my safe [ laughter ] trump is like, dammit, i knew i should have flushed that safe down the toilet, i knew it. all right. 6:00 on the east coast, there are new developments on the justice department investigation of donald trump including confirmation that the fbi search of his florida home, mar-a-lago, was related to the handling of classified information. we will have the outlandish claims from his attorneys. desperate for some sort of defense here, i guess. plus, the former president is set to be deposed in new york state s investigation into the trump organization today. and a sixth trump-backed candidate wins the republican primary for governor, this time in wisconsin. we ll have the latest on that election and others. also, the very latest from ukraine. new information this morning on how ukrainian forces are pulling off
he stated he pled the fifth under the advice of counsel declining to answer the questions. this striking legal development, which we ll get into comes just two days after august 8, 2022 when the fbi searched a former president s home. both developments show the depths of donald trump s legal problems. neither means that he is in a legal sense guilty of anything to be precise. both mean that the concerns about donald trump s guilt about law breaking, about criminal evidence and criminal activity stretch from the highest levels of the doj to a separate new york probe to inside donald trump s mind. only he can make the decision that he made today. and let me tell it to you in plain english, it s a right he can exercise, but he made the decision, donald trump did that he faces a higher risk by testifying truthfully in the new york probe, which he chose not to do than by pleading the fifth, which he chose to do. it is a legal but a controversial move, which he has probably derided
the fbi combing through donald trump s resort for classified documents. plus, a bipartisan win for joe biden. the president puts pen to paper on a law that he says will boost american manufacturing and provide more jobs. today, important primaries in four states, plus a dark twist in a georgia senate contest. a new ad surfaces accusations of abuse against the republican nominee, herschel walker. first time he held the gun to my head, he held the gun to my temple and said he s going to blow my brains out. we begin the hour with a monumental moment and what it might mean for the former president of the united states. federal agents serving a warrant and searching donald trump s home. the former president s palatial florida resort. the research started monday afternoon, and then confirmed within the hour by trump himself. the search was both legally executed and unprecedented. it is a stunning escalation in the federal probes into the former president. sources tell cnn the