thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this thursday. we are grateful. ari melber picks up our coverage right now on the beat. hi, ari. hi, nicolle. this is one of those times we begin with breaking news we re just getting in a story from the new york times citing four sources about the potential indictment of donald trump in new york. this is the kind of leak, the kind of indication you may have heard before and said, well, are we back to more discussion about an indictment that will never come? the answer i can t give you tonight. what i can tell you is the new york times says with more than two sources here, a foul four sources, that the d.a. in new york is looking at campaign hush money payments, the somewhat infamous payments donald trump made and that part is known and proven to stormy daniels pursuant to the 2016 campaign. what many saw as a cover up but s never been charged. here s the headline from the new york times, prosecutors signal cri
it. more that from jessica schneider. reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj s warrant application where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defense info
former president? plus, the texas governor it s political ploy to try to punish blue states over immigration policies. the problem is, this isn t politics for the thousands of desperate migrants. the human cost of political gains. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we begin tonight with the dramatic spike in violent threats against fbi agents. threats so concerning that president biden is now being briefed on the danger. the bureau has been under attack from former president trump himself and his allies ever since that search on his home in mar-a-lago just one week ago. the fbi and the department of homeland security had issued a joint intelligence bulletin rising of threats to for presumably carried out by supporters of the former president. and just today, a pennsylvania man was arrested for threatening to kill fbi agents, threats he posted on media website. you ll recall, it was just four days ago, and arm
all a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. let s do at home joining us this hour. it s great to have you here. do you remember the name brandon van grack? it s a very memorable name, so you might remember the sound of it. if not, the circumstance in which you first heard it. but if you are like me, in all likelihood, the first time you heard the name brandon van grack, it was the first time you heard the word, espionage, formerly associated with the presidency of donald trump. espionage as in the espionage act, as it not just spy movie stuff but as in u.s. law. but we are only about four months in to the u.s. trump administration in the new york times first reported that the then brand new trump administration had made a very unusual hiring decision that ultimately implicated the work of a veteran espionage prosecutor at the u.s. department of justice.
joint intelligence bulletin risethreats to law enforcement officials. presumably carried out by supporters of the former president. and just today, a pennsylvania man was arrested for threatening to kill fbi agents, threats he posted on a social media website. you ll recall, it was just four days ago, an armed man fired a nail gun into a cincinnati fbi office. he was later killed during a standoff with police. at the same time, attorney merrick garland may soon have to decide whether or not to pursue charges against donald trump of his allies over the handling of those classified records that were seized down a mar-a-lago. and tonight, the wall street journal is reporting that it took garland weeks to decide to approve that application for the search warrant. one of the reporters who broke that story described what happened during that time. he met with justice officials and other fbi officials for weeks, in private meetings weighing the ins and outs of such a high profile