this. it was essentially because donald trump went out and told the world that the fbi had done this search of his property in palm beach on monday. listen to him address exactly why he did this today. since i became attorney general i have made clear that the department of justice will speak through its court filings and its work. just now the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrants and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was of premises located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day of the search. the former president publicly confirmed the search that evening as is his right. copies of both the warrant and the fbi property receipt were provided on the former president s counsel who was on site during the search. the search warrant was authorized by a federal court upon the
day s worth of speculation and partisan conspiracy theories and warnings of violence. let s go to our reporter, cnn s pamela brown and kaitlan collins. kaitlan, what more are you learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, couldn t get kaitlan yet. pamela, you ve been reporting on what triggered this search, namely concerns about what the former president and had not already turned over to the federal government, the questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you know? reporter: remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year, and in june the fbi met with some of donald trump s representatives at mar-a-lago, saw the room where some of these additional documents were being held, sent a letter after saying it should be padlocked. the bottom line is i m told through a source familiar is that the fbi believed that donald trump and his representatives hadn t turned
learning about the type of documents that were recovered in the search and what they may have related to? sorry, can t get kaitlin yet. pamela, you ve been reporting on what triggered this search, mainly concerns about what the former president had and had not already turned over to the federal government. questions about the truthfulness of his representatives. what else do you have? remember, this investigation had been going on for more than a year. in june, the fbi met with some of donald trump s representatives at mar-a-lago, saw the room where some of these additional documents were being held, sent a letter after saying it should be padlocked. the bottom line, i m told through a source familiar, is the fbi believed donald trump and his representatives had not turned over everything it should have or it was required to that belong to the government. we know previously, the national archives had taken 15 boxes from mar-a-lago including classified information. in this c
himself will be investigated by kevin mccarthy as we reported earlier. all the justice department people and i ve been speaking to from a book i ve been working on saying that have been incredibly careful, and they would only act if they had crystal clear evidence. this is gonna be perceived as political by half of the country so it s a monumental development and we ll see if their evidence holds up in court, but it s just a shocking series of events tonight. given what s going on at the u.s. justice department now. we are blessed that david rohde, pulitzer prize reporter and executive editor for the new york stock com is working on a book that s what s happening at the justice department. david thank you for joining us. tonight thank you. all right, that s gonna do it for me for now. ali vultures gonna be here tomorrow but don t go anywhere because right now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell good evening lawrence. good evening rachel and this is one o
was there for the search and that the paper was seized. the archives had asked the justice department to examine trump s handling of records that he took out of the white house and down to mar-a-lago after he left office. nbc news is also learned that the nbc notified the secret service earlier today about the intention to execute the search warrant. with that we ve got a lot to get to and let s bring in our lead off panel tonight. mark caputo, senior national political reporter for nbc news, andrew weizmann, former fbi general counsel. and former senior editor of the mueller probe, now is a law professor at nyu. frank for clues, a former fbi s assistant director for counter intelligence, and barbara mcquade. a veteran federal prosecutor, and former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. she worked with the doj during the biden transition, and as a professor at university of michigan s school of law. first, i want to thank all four of you. i know you are working