january 6th connection to a deadly confrontation in ohio. plus, the republican response. some trump allies may now be trying to tamp down the rhetoric, while waiting for whatever comes next. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, chilling breaking news about the fbi s a search of mar-a-lago. the washington post reporting agents were looking for nuclear documents. quote, classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s florida residents on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. they did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including weathered involved weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation. nor did they say such documents were recovered as part of the search. one up the post reporters on that story added this earlier tonight. we kn
about his kill fbi desire to kill agents shortly after search at mar-a-lago. fbi agents we re also learning tonight shortly after the that he was at the capitol search at mar-a-lago. we re also learning riots on january six. tonight that he was at we will cover the big news out the capitol riots on of the justice department as. january 6th. we are going to cover the big well the attorney general news out of the justice department as merrick garland announcing well. the today that he s moving to attorney general merrick unseal the warrant to search garland announcing today that he is trump s home. moving to but we start tonight with a unseal the ward to search trump s home truly gobsmacking getting new report from the washington post. here is it, fdr searches trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources. a quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the fbi items ip agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s resid
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, chilling breaking news about the fbi s a search of mar-a-lago. the washington post reporting agents were looking for nuclear documents. quote, classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. they did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including weathered involved weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation. nor did they say such documents were recovered as part of the search. one of the post reporters on that story added this earlier tonight. we know that it was a significant part of what they wanted, and when the first one went down the former president gained them 15 boxes of material. it was top secret documents in those boxes. when they came back on monday, they got 12 more boxes. this
january 6th. we are going to cover the big news out of the justice department as well. the attorney general merrick garland announcing today that he s moving to unseal the warrant to search trump s home. but we start tonight with a truly gobsmacking new report from the washington post. here s the headline. fbi searched trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say. quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were found among the items that fbi agents sought in a search of the former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at trump s mar-a-lago club, and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands. one former justice department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classi
classrooms. goo good morning, everyone. and welcome to way too early on this friday, august 12th, i m alex witt in for jonathan lemire. we begin with new information on the fbi search of the donald trump s home, people familiar with the investigation tell the washington post that classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items agents were searching for on monday. the sources did not disclose any additional details about the type of documents or if any were recovered. here s reaction from the trump attorney who was at mar-a-lago during the search. is it your understanding that there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues that have national security implications in the president s possession when the agents showed up at mar-a-lago? that s right. i don t believe they were. and if they thought do you know for a fact? do you know for a fact they were, have you spoken to the president about it? i have not speci