january 6th. we are going to cover the big news out of the justice department as well. the attorney general merrick garland announcing today that he s moving to unseal the warrant to search trump s home. but we start tonight with a truly gobsmacking new report from the washington post. here s the headline. fbi searched trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say. quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were found among the items that fbi agents sought in a search of the former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at trump s mar-a-lago club, and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands. one former justice department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classi
contested races for senate and governor. and the 25-year-old is aiming to be the first gen z member of congress. plus, the politics of religion in the conservative candidates going to an extreme. the church is supposed to direct the government. the government is not supposed to direct the church. that is not how our founding fathers intended. i m tired of the separation of church and state dunk. that provocative discussion on faith in government. i am michael steele in for my friend jonathan capehart. and this is the sunday show. this sunday, if donald trump is not supposed to have it, that it is probably at mar-a-lago. on friday we saw the heavily redacted affidavit explaining why the fbi felt it was necessary to search trump s florida home. now we are learning that the office of the director of national intelligence is conducting a threat assessment, trying to figure out, the quote, potential risk to national security posed by trump s document hoarding. meaning the inte
hey, welcome back to cnn tonight. don lemon is off tonight. i m still laura coates. who could know that the greatest legal crisis donald trump may ultimately face started at his administration was on the way out the door? not january 6th insurrection, mind you. all the work of the select committee and the doj is not done there yet. but from the move that will never be forgotten, all the boxes sent to mar-a-lago and all those classified documents mixed into boxes like the ones movers hauled off these trucks and into his resort compound. nearly 1,000 miles from where they were supposed to be as the 45th president returned willingly or not to civilian life. scenes like this get a small mention in the 38-page affidavit written by an anonymous fbi agent to make the case to search trump s florida home. now, the age and identity is anonymous and being kept confidential for their safety, of course, as the bureau, as you know, faces growing threats. but what can we now read among th
the affidavit, which would be unusual, insisting it could compromise its ongoing investigation. now this all comes as cnn has learned some allies of the former president are urging him to publicly release surveillance footage of the fbi s search at mar-a-lago. his son eric trump says that will absolutely happen at the right time. plus, we re learning more about a separate probe of trump s role in the january 6th capitol attack. overnight, the new york times reporting that a federal grand jury has subpoenaed white house documents from the national archives, asking for all materials in whatever form that were handed to the january 6th committee. what is clear is the investigations are ongoing. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz in west palm beach. ruling expected today or just the consideration? reporter: it is possible there could be a consideration. the judge could rule live in court or could decide to do it at a later time. but i j
hour. outonight, in just moments we will joined live by the white house chief of staff, ron klain, and we will ask him about president biden s return to the campaign trail tonight. the new burst of democratic momentum heading into the midterms and donald trump s legal woes. plus, a judge says that by tomorrow he will release a deducted redacted version to get the mar-a-lago search warrant as the da investigating trump in georgia calls on more of his associates to testify. former federal prosecutor and senior member of the mueller investigation, and you weisman as our guest. as conservatives take over the nations school boards, you reporting on who is funding those efforts and opening up a new front in the culture war. we start tonight with a president on a hot streak. president biden at a rally tonight rockville, maryland, jumping back onto the campaign trail with his first political event of the mid term season. for decades, these climate deniers blocked any meaningful p