bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
at the president s home. now the trump team is not planning to release its copy of the search warrant. the albany times unions and judicial watch have asked the judge to publicly release it. bill: happening at the same time the former president testifying in new york yesterday part of a separate civil investigation into business practices. he declined to answer any questions calling the probe part of a larger witch hunt that left him no choice but to plead the fifth. dana: the white house and d.o.j. remaining tight lipped refusing to explain monday s unprecedented raid. it s not something that i can talk about. i would refer you to the department. bill: president biden ignoring those questions as he heads off to a vacation with his family in south carolina. on that trip on camera climbing up the steps of air force one, his son, hunter, who is also the subject of an ongoing federal investigation. team fox coverage begins now. byron york, david lee miller in new york an
country. i believe in the very soul of this nation, and most of all, i believe in you, the american people. i believe in my core there isn t a single thing this country cannot do when we put our mind to it. we have to remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there s nothing beyond our capacity. that s why so many foreign companies decide to invest their make chips in america, billions of dollars. we re the best. we have to believe in ourselves again, and now i m going to take action that i ve been looking forward to doing for 18 months. [ applause ] i m going to sign the inflation reduction act. [ applause ] hey, everyone, it s john heilemann here, i forgot to say aloha, namaste, and gutentag. i m here for nicolle wallace yet again, and we are here interrupting our regularly scheduled programming which you re all too familiar with, to bring you a special bulletin regarding what president joe biden would in an earlier incarnation surely have referred to as
things are going to happen if the political climate does not change. the statement coming in his first interview since the raid on his florida compound last week. the former president telling fox news digital he will do whatever can he to help. also tonight the justice department wants to prevent the unsealing of the affidavit used to justify the search warrant request. it says the fact that this investigation, quote, implicates highly classified materials further underscores the need to protect the integrity of the investigation. and exacerbates the potential for harm. if information is disclosed to the public prematurely or improperly. there is also a reference in the doj filing to federal rule 6 e. that signifies a grand jury. experts look at this say it may be a part of a concern trying to protect the identity of a witness or witnesses who are assisting in this. and perhaps other investigations. all of this comes as congressional republicans are pressing hard for addition
we begin with this out-of-control department of justice. this week it s all about the raid. but in reality the ladies not just regulated to this week. in fact it s common with the trump camp with the red hat. the fine, the same agency that lets the bidens, the obamas, the pelosis slide by. this week it was trump s home at mar-a-lago. they busted into his residence to look for records he allegedly took with him when he left office. as the feds try to rip apart trump s orbit, meaning the people around him. you have to wonder when it s going to stop. paul manafort s home in virginia. raided for 10 hours to seize documents. manafort and his wife were asleep when the fbi came at 5:00 a.m. brian: also before dawn, early risers, they had to make sure they wouldn t be overpowered by a 70-year-old. at 6:00 a.m., s.w.a.t. clad fbi agents arriving in 17 armored vehicles with a helicopter overhead. and dropping off progressmen in the backyard, brandishing assault weapons to arrest