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
office is attacked. plus, new reporting of trump s paranoia over so-called rats wearing wires at mar-a-lago. u.s. press secretary karine jean-pierre live in studio on us there is a big wins for the biden white house. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m alicia melendez, in for chris hayes. today, attorney general merrick garland calls donald trump s bluff, speaking publicly for the first time since the fbi search at mar-a-lago, garland announced the department of justice is seeking to rig leased the search warrant and and accompanying list of items seized. unless the former president objects. just, now the department of justice has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt related to a court approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premise is located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day o
post that the nuclear weapons is a hoax. this comes as we wait for a federal judge in florida to decide whether to unseal the warrant and property receipt from monday s search after trump overnight supported a move by the attorney general for the documents to be made public. in a rare public statement, attorney general merrick garland said more about what led to the search. i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. the department does not take such a decision lightly. where possible it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. meanwhile, a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news, quote, someone familiar with paper stored at mar-a-lago told investigators there may have been more classified documents, even though the national archives said earlier this year it had retrieved 15 boxes of documents. sources tell nbc news a subpoena was delivered t
fbi felt the search was necessary. one clue may come from a stunning new report in the washington post. fbi agents were looking for classified documents related to america s nuclear program. that s according to people familiar with the investigation. nbc news has not confirmed that report. this morning trump called it a hoax. one of his attorneys was asked about it on fox. she was not quite so explicit. is it your understanding there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues that had national security implications in the president s possession when the agents showed up at mar-a-lago? that s correct. do you know for a fact? have you spoken to the president about it? i have not specifically spoken to the president about what nuclear materials may or may not have been in there. i do not believe there were any in there. i want to bring in justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. charles kohlman is a former prosecutor. carol l
this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with this breaking news. the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. we have it. you may have heard, and most importantly, as you see here, this is something we don t usually get. we ve never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that we d be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald trump allegedly took or stole, property of the u.s. government and intelligence material. we re going get into this right now. we start with what s in here. we don t start with the law, although it is the law that brought us this information. we start with the search warrants property and inventory list. lets take a look. you re going see at the top how this works. search and seizure warrant. you see that? page 1 of it. then on page 5, and if we can, we ll bring this to you in full. can we br