with the clock ticking toward the midterms. the 11th hour getting underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. new revelations about the fbi s search of mar-a-lago may soon see the light of day. several media organizations, including nbc, were in a south florida court today, asking a judge to unseal the affidavit behind last week s search and seizure at donald trump s florida home. judge bruce reinhardt told the justice department he is inclined to release a redacted or edited version of the affidavit. that document details what prosecutors call probable cause, the evidence that brought the fbi agents to trump s home in the first place. prosecutors want to keep the entire thing under wraps. but the judge today ordered them to list their proposed redactions within a week. while the former guy, in many of his allies, have said they support the release of an unredacted version, this afternoon trump supporters who were angered by the fbi search
ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president s florida estate when he left office. at the time, the agency said it had asked the justice department to investigate. a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news, boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. trump s attorney released a statement claiming the former president and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj, quote, every step of the way. trump slammed the search as, quote, prosecutorial misconduct
appointed christopher wray, before they got the okay from a federal judge. because of that, it certainly feels like we re on the cusp of something big. what that something is is unclear. is it a criminal indictment? legal experts say it is way too soon to say. is it a reinvigoration of president trump s political possibilities in 2024. there was a new york time polling that suggested that half of republican voters wanted someone else to run for president. someone new. is it the start of a series of wrenching politically motivated house investigations into the doj and the fbi? house republicans are promising it will be if they regain control in november. or is it the start of something ugly. something violent. in the hours after the news broke online, searches for civil war spiked. it could be all of these things and it could be none of these things. so let us sort out what we can. joining us now is nbc news correspondent vaughan hillyard who is across the lagoon in west palm
undercuts the defense of a rally just getting out of hand, and this was revealed by furtive texts from trump s own aides. potus is going to have us march there/the capitol. potus is going to caller fit unexpectedly. it was planned, so it was expected. that text shows how donald trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous. that s also bad because it shows some of trump s intent by hiding it in advance and that the whole march was what trump turned to after a grave meet that was plotting a military role in a coup in the united states to take over your country, democracy and government. this is heavy stuff. this was also part of what was documented today, where some of trump s most extreme plotters pushed for him to abuse pow we are an illegal order to seize voting machines. his team of outside advisers paid him a surprise visit. they proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the u.s. military. it got to the point where the screaming wa
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