but first, we start in september of 2015. donald trump was three months removed from his famed escalator ride announcing his presidential bid. he had already risen to the top of the republican field, leading in all the polls, and he found himself showing off his trump tower office to the wall street journal. this is shaquille o neal s shoe. oh my god! is that a real issue? he took it off after he handed it to me. i carry like this. tom brady s super bowl helmet. wow. this is mike tyson s belt. shock shoe! tom brady s super bowl helmet, mike tyson s belt. we have known for a while that donald trump likes to collect memorabilia, if you will. and so when trump arrived at the white house, well, it was no different. here is the new york times today describing trump s time in office. quote, white house aides described how excited trump was to show of all the material he had access to, including letters from the north korean leader kim jong-un, which he routinely waved
with the clock ticking toward the midterms. the 11th hour getting underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. new revelations about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago may soon see the light of day. several media organizations, including nbc, were in a south florida court today, asking a judge to unseal the affidavit behind last week s search and seizure at donald trump s florida home. judge bruce reinhardt told the justice department he is inclined to release a redacted or edited version of the affidavit. that document details what prosecutors call probable cause, the evidence that brought the fbi agents to trump s home in the first place. prosecutors want to keep the entire thing under wraps. but the judge today ordered them to list their proposed redactions within a week. while the former guy, in many of his allies, have said they support the release of an unredacted version, this afternoon trump supporters who were angered by the fbi search
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
now, they are saying that s a historical context, in part, inspired biden to deliver this address, at that venue, on this evening, just ten weeks from the midterm elections, as mike just noted. last month, the president of the group of historians, presidents do this from time to time, understandable, they want a little perspective, and that group of historians who, met with the president in the white house warned him, america s democracy is teetering. just think, for the first time in the history of this nation, a president disrupted the peaceful transfer of power. nothing like it had happened since the cannons fired at fort sumter. that same individual, who interrupted that peaceful transfer of power, led to the bloodshed there. eacefu transfer of powebut one of the , leading extreme movement, that threatens violence, and promises to overthrow the next election if that autocrat, aspiring autocrat, does not pass. tonight, the united states president, joseph biden, will out hi
[laughs] of course that s obviously why you get that philosophy degree. very well established. you have founded application for that not many others have my friend. i know your alma mater is proud of you. happy affidavit day, i m trying to make upon thank you chris. let me put an end to this crosstalk. i m gonna start my show now. have a good weekend. thanks to all of you at home for joining us this hour. happy not-so-summer friday. the federal court system has an electronic filing system called pacer. you may not be familiar with it it stands for public access to court electronic records. pacer is a nifty tool for attorneys to upload filings for cases and for the public to access the filing system. today at noon, pacer crashed because shortly after northeastern, we got this. all 38 pages of it, including cover sheets and exhibits. the highly anticipated fbi affidavit that supported the governments executions search warrant on mar-a-lago. and it is highly unusual that w