mar-a-lago home. tonight, the washington post is quoting sources who are saying that investigators are searching for classified nuclear documents and other items. that there was some deep concern among officials about material potentially ending up in the wrong hands. sources don t say if such documents were recovered, but this follows an extraordinary move by the attorney general, merrick garland. he asked a federal court to unseal the warned that permitted the search to take place in the first place. sitting off a quick chain of events tonight. a source saying that a trump and his team appear to be blindsided by this announcement to say hey, we want to see the receipts. they ve contacted attorneys independently for advice and considering asking the judge to even block the request by the doj to make that unsealed. that move would seem a bit odd, wouldn t it? trump himself was publicly revealing that the search even took place. he blasted it as politically motivated. there
Forget you thats it for us. The news continues. The source will Kaitlan Collins starts now statement the source tonight, you almost need a four letter word to describe what happened inside trumps trial this afternoon. I was there when the entire press corps was clear from the courtroom. After the defenses witness may judge mark sean urea plus all the president s friends who were also indicted. That courtroom today, the trump entourage included a former Biker Gang Leader who spent years in prison, and a string of others who are also facing charges of their own and talk about a birthday surprise Rudy Giuliani served a Birthday Cake for his 80th. Then was served himself with an indictment after abating arizonas Attorney General for weeks will go straight to the source of her in moments im Kaitlin Collins and this is the source the wheels came off, the bus. That is really the old only way to sum up what happened when six weeks into Donald Trumps hush money trial, the prosecution rested its
Its not am here and then agnez, we are now entering the final phase of the first criminal trial of a former President Donald Trump is inside that courtroom there on the right side of your screen as the prosecution spinal and maybe most important witness, Michael Cohen is about to retake the stan moments ago, the judge we are warmer. Shawn, just informed the court that he does expect Closing Arguments will not happen this week, but he does expect them to happen next tuesday because there is no chance of a verdict this week come to see it as a special live cover. On Kaitlan Collins in new york. An object Saverin Washington in minutes testimony resumes with a third day of crossexamination from Michael Cohen, the former trump you would all fix her turn witness for the prosecution. Todd blanche trumps attorney will again ask the questions. The trump attorney landed several notable blows on cohen underlining seeming inconsistencies and cohens memory at one point, Blanche Accused Cohen of inv
About, yet he went to him to work on an issue thats so important. That says everything about his life. Thanks, antjuan, and thank you, trymaine as well. President clinton and President Obama are set to speak in baltimore. Andrea mitchell reports starts right now. Thank you, craig melvin. Next on Andrea Mitchell reports, the Justice Department opens a Criminal Investigation into the origins of the fbis russia probe. Whats the crime . Whos under investigation . And why are the findings of the nations 17 Intelligence Agencies and the Republicanled Senate Intelligence Committee not enough for the Trump Administration . Falling in line. Republicans escalate their assault on the house Impeachment Inquiry, trying to slow down the pace after two weeks of damaging testimony. Plus going home. Thousands gathering in baltimore this hour, including two former president s, for a final farewell
to congressman Elijah Cummings. The man that speaker of the house nancy pelosi called our north star. And g
specking one problem with a decision and saying this is clearly wrong, we have to send it back to the state, that s not going to work. we re going to have to see option a or b, i think an up or down vote on whether the 14th amendment means what the states have said, some kind of secret back door way out and escape hatch, that is disappearing by the minute. what about those who argue, listen, this is the way the court has made up. donald trump has appointed three justices, a conservative majority. there s no way they re not going to side with him. well, i would say that i think there s something to that. i think that the conservative justices do tend to rule in a conservative direction. and that would benefit trump here, but i would als say that all three of trump s appointees hold themselves out as originalists, as textualists, and again, there is an increasing pile of evidence here that under the original meaning of the 14th amendment, trump is simply not permitted to run for or h