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
documents. he didn t take them home to his farm. donald trump went a different route here. we tonight bring in ron allen in west palm beach, florida. ron, remind us. the trump reaction, the only reason we knew about the search was because trump put it out there. how have they been responding this week. reporter: former president trump has been emphasizing in some of the social media posts that he s encouraging these or trying to take the offensive or trying to build a narrative that paints him as thevill tan lain and also ts hero. some of that is true. and some of that is not true. what s striking now is that the president and allies have already laid down a prebutt the rebuttal to whatever this release was going to be. we knew there would not be a lot of detail, a lot of substance about what these top secret documents are.
but whatever it is, it s incredibly sensitive and something that the the u.s. government would not want to fall into the wrong hands. you want to play part of what merrick garland said yesterday about the search. the department does not take such decision lightly. where possible, it s standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. so he s suggesting flost other way to get these documents. we know there was a subpoena earlier in the spring. do you think this was the last resort? and at this point, we have to look at the possibilities here. could it just be they did the search warrant and got him back. that s the end of story or could we discover there s much more to this? i think that it s more likely that there s much more to this as part of a deeper investigation. the justification for how they behaved in this way, how they went about their actions is
yesterday afternoon. police are still investigating the motive. however, it appears the suspect posted online threats about his desire to kill fbi agents this week. shortly after the search at the former president s mar-a-lago residence. new images appear to place him at the capitol on january 6th. it remains unclear whether he entered the building that day. i want to bring in shaquille brewster live in cincinnati. also with us is ben collins, who tracks disinformation and extremism. shaq, let s start with you. what more can you tell us about the investigation into how this unfolded? reporter: the fbi is saying they are reviewing the entire incident and calling it an agent-involved shooting. we know from state and local thofrts it began here at the fbi field office in cincinnati when the man walked up to the visitor processing or visitor screening center. he fired a nail gun at personnel. that tripped an alarm. while it didn t hit personnel, it tripped an alarm and he waved
search was an abuse of power that should be investigated. when you hear that 40% r you surprised anymore? no, because it shows the effectiveness of getting out in front and defining a narrative. the justice department was rightly quiet. they don t talk about ongoing investigation. trump depose out to soil the soil. so tear up the ground and plant bad seeds. so that 40% doesn t surprise me. you have noes trust in the fbi. was that not trust when they were investigating hillary clinton? or did you stop having that trust because they are going after your boy? which one is it? you can see the hypocrisy and the lies. they are embedded in the thing itself. so what has to happen is because you have one party right now, that is wholesale against anything related to the rule of law, the establishment of the