we will cover the big news out of the justice department as. well the attorney general merrick garland announcing today that he s moving to unseal the warrant to search trump s home. but we start tonight with a truly gobs mouth getting new report from the washington post. here is it, fdr searches trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources. a quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the fbi items ip agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. experts in classified information set the unusual search underscores a deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at trump s mar-a-lago club, and potentially endanger a falling into the wrong hands. one former justice department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified information, said the type of top secret
about his kill fbi desire to kill agents shortly after search at mar-a-lago. fbi agents we re also learning tonight shortly after the that he was at the capitol search at mar-a-lago. we re also learning riots on january six. tonight that he was at we will cover the big news out the capitol riots on of the justice department as. january 6th. we are going to cover the big well the attorney general news out of the justice department as merrick garland announcing well. the today that he s moving to attorney general merrick unseal the warrant to search garland announcing today that he is trump s home. moving to but we start tonight with a unseal the ward to search trump s home truly gobsmacking getting new report from the washington post. here is it, fdr searches trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources. a quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the fbi items ip agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s resid
Really did need and deserve. and he said there s been strong public interest in this matter. so that is to unseal the document. he didn t talk about donald trump at the press conference, he talked about process, he talked about the [inaudible] of the fbi, and they found a motion to unseal this so it will be speaking through their court filings. as to donald trump s suggestion in kenya betters reporting that he might oppose it after all of this, is really quite rich. as you have mentioned, ali, if it does say things like, their nuclear secrets in this document, you might see why he would want to stop. it i don t think that s going to happen i think ordinarily, public records, court file records, are in the public domain. it is the government that typically seeks to protect them from disclosure, so it s not to undermine the success of the criminal investigation. once they wanted to be unsealed, it s difficult to imagine that donald trump will prevail and getting it and sealed
It i don t think that s going to happen i think ordinarily, public records, court file records, are in the public domain. barb, you and i have been through a lot through the last few years, we ve covered a lot of things we would expect to be talking about. and this is just another installment in the crazy stuff that happens in america. good to see you, my friend. thank you for being here. former federal prosecutor, barbara mcquade. one other important piece of news regarding the story that we can report tonight. nbc news confirms that someone familiar with the documents tipped off investigators in june to the fact that there may have been more classified documents at the club, which led to mondays execution of a search warrant. separately, nbc news has identified the man that attacked an fbi field office in cincinnati, ohio today. he was at the capitol riot on january 6th. he posted some alarming things about the fbi raid on mar-a-lago online. we have that story, next. helps keep you