known to be loathed to deviate from past practice, a man known as kafrl, methodical and some even say plotting, came out and did something that he surely does not want to do. ee he addressed the fbi s search on monday in mar-a-lago, donald trump s private club and residence. garland spoke from the justice department just hours after the fbi field offers in cincinnati became embroil flood a tense armed standoff with the man who fired a nail gun while brandishing an ar-15-style weapon. the incident comes amid an alarming spike in threats on law enforcement and after the raid on mar-a-lago. garland s, the biggest moment of his address today announced a major move by the doj that the department had asked a court in south florida to unseal the search warrant that was the predicate for the fbi search of mar-a-lago on monday. let s watch merrick garland now. just now, the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrants and prop
beforehand, and it was essentially a diatribe against new york state attorney general letitia james accusing her of being biased against him and conducting a politically motivated witch hunt for political gain. he acknowledged he said in the past that if you re innocent, you have no reason to take the fifth amendment. he said recent events in his life have caused him to change his tune including the recent fbi raid search of his compound in mar-a-lago, florida. he said it just made no sense for him to cooperate in any way with this civil fraud investigation. what s interesting about it is his son, eric trump, we re told took the fifth amendment more than 500 times in a deposition in this very case back in 2020. but more recently, his daughter ivanka and other son don jr. we re told did testify and answer questions in this investigation which is about whether the trump organization committed fraud in its representations to banks and insurance companies. leticia james has alr
initial recovery on mar-a-lago said that archives officials believed that more records were missing and were skeptical that trump had handed over everything. as the investigation gained steam, some trump advisors have sought to steer away from the issue according to people who were speaking under anonymity. now you have to fast forward to june 3rd, bob, the trump attorney says the trump s team met with a doj official after they cooperated with presidential records in a storage wear and handed over, quote, a few pages to the doj. multiple sources have confirmed to nbc news that monday s unprecedented search was related, classified material that trump brought with limb to florida after he left the white house. two sources say the search went from 9:00 a.m. to half past 6:00 and that the fbi took about a dozen, a dozen more boxes with emthis. a lot of boxes. think, as much as we ve learned there are still major questions outstanding, for instance, what exactly what was the fbi l
european powerhouse is revealing she has taken a drug test, giving in to calls from fellow lawmakers after online videos showed her partying. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. with me this hour is nbc news correspondent josh lederman in dnipro, ukraine, and a member of the council on foreign relations, former state department adviser and author of nuclear nightmares. josh, let s talk about this aid and what s happening in ukraine, what can you tell us about this latest round of funding as tensions skyrocket around that nuclear plant? this latest batch of funding, joe, will be a little under 800,000, including a thousand javelin antitank missiles as well as more ammunition as well as additional howitzers for the ukrainians to use. perhaps the object that get the most attention is more than a done eagle drones, the first time the united states has provided those spy drones to the ukrainians. they re made by boeing and can fly at low altitude to avoid detection by russian
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat