looking for to your show my thank you, ali thank you. friend. thank you, ali thank you. while the republicans who had been demanding to see that warrant, demanding an explanation for why donald trump s home was hurt by the fbi on monday have a new possible answer tonight, but they might somehow try to turn and donald trump s favor unless they keyword in that new report tonight finally makes the trump defenders chose silence for the first time. and that word is nuclear. the breaking news of the night is that the washington post is running the headline, fbi searched trump s home to look for nuclear documents. the lead by four investigative reporters of that article says, classified occupants relating 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 se
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
thursday admitting his role in a decades long tax fraud scheme. international community reacting this horror that this could be at the center of fighting. hello and welcome, it is friday, august 19, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast where a federal judge has released a few new documents related to the search of donald trump s mar-a-lago home and the details they contain on the potential offenses sharpen the focus on the former president. the same judge signed off on the affidavit and he indicated thursday that he is willing to unseal portions of it that were used to just guy the fbi search. he told prosecutors to prepare redactions to the document in case the ruling is to release it. meantime we re learning that trump s claim that he had a standing order to declassify the documents taken from the oval office is nonsense. cnn can exclusively report that 18 former top trump administration officials have been mocking that claim. here is how trump s f
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate
and polio virus has been detected in new york city s wastewater. what that means about how the virus is spreading and why some may not know they have it. and congresswoman liz cheney in a fight for her political career in wyoming s election next week. new day starts right now . it is saturday, august 13th. welcome to your weekend. we re grateful you made us a part of it. a lot of news to get to this morning. new this morning, we now know the potential crimes that the justice department cited in its warrant to search former president trump s florida residence. federal agents were investigating federal crimes associated with violations of the espionage act, obstruction of justice and criminal handling of government records. so, in total, the fbi seized 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including some material marked as top secret/sci, that means sensitive compartmented information. that is one of the highest levels of government classification. go docum