every year. interesting. david culver, thank you so much for that report. you could follow me on facebook, instagram, twitter and the tiktok at jake tapper and tweet the show at the lead. and if you miss an episode, you could listen to the lead from once you get your podcasts. just like grapes hanging there. it is delicious. our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. see you tomorrow. happening now, a chilling new threat to kill, to kill law enforcement personnel in the wake of the search of former president trump s florida home. and now new claims from trump about what agents seized during their search. january 6 select committee member adam kinzinger will join us just ahead. also trump s former lawyer rudy giuliani now a target, a target in the criminal investigation into efforts to try to flip the 2020
of negotiation happening between federal agents and schiffer before this standoff ended this afternoon. more now on attorney general garland s decision today to call the former president s bluff on the warrant for monday s search. the department filed the motion to make public the warrant and fleet light of the former president s confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter. the former president has both those documents, could himself make them public any time, something his supporters have been calling on the justice department to do. now it s up to him. the federal judge handling this in florida has given justice until 3:00 p.m. to meet with them.
what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there. i do not believe there were any in there. we may actually learn what was taken from the property, as early as this afternoon, as well as any suspected violations, attorney general merrick garland announced yesterday that the justice department is moving to unseal the warrant used in monday s search. the judge ruled the d.o.j. s motions were unsealed, must be presented to trump s lawyers, who have until 3:00 p.m. today, to agree with or oppose the motion to unseal the warrant. the department is seeking to unseal only the warrant, and the inventory of items seized by the fbi during the search of mar-a-lago, and not the affidavit of probable cause, which would detail how authorities believe a crime was likely committed, and why there would be evidence of that crime at trump s florida home. late last night, the former president took to his social media company to respond, writing in part, not only will i not oppose the release of
requested was being withheld. i don t mean it is from the justice department senior officials themselves, but from sources close to them. we may actually learn what was taken from the property as early as this afternoon, as well as any suspected violations. attorney general merrick garland announced yesterday that the justice department is moving to unseal the warrant used in monday s search. the judge ruled the doj s motion to unseal must be presented to trump s lawyers, who have until 3:00 p.m. today to agree with or oppose the motion to unseal the unseal only the warrant and an inventory of items seized by the fbi during the search of mar-a-lago, and not the affidavit of probable cause. which would detail how authorities believe a crime was likely committed and why there would be evidence of that crime at trump s florida home.
monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. 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 not aware of it. no one at the white house was given a heads up. that did not happen. and just 24 hours after the search the fbi seized the cell phone of a key trump ally, republican congressman scott perry of pennsylvania. according to perry, the agents presented him with a search warrant to confiscate the phone. perry, the head of the far-right freedom house caucus help spread election fraud lies in kunduz to do so today. house investigators say he may have been a key player in a scheme to overturn the election. tonight, perry issued a statement. quote, my phone contains info