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classrooms. goo good morning, everyone. and welcome to way too early on this friday, august 12th, i m alex witt in for jonathan lemire. we begin with new information on the fbi search of the donald trump s home, people familiar with the investigation tell the washington post that classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items agents were searching for on monday. the sources did not disclose any additional details about the type of documents or if any were recovered. here s reaction from the trump attorney who was at mar-a-lago during the search. is it your understanding that there were not documents related to our nuclear capabilities or nuclear issues that have national security implications in the president s possession when the agents showed up at mar-a-lago? that s right. i don t believe they were. and if they thought do you know for a fact? do you know for a fact they were, have you spoken to the president about it? i have not ....
what a week. with us, we have pulitzer prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post, eugene robinson with us. and columnist and associate editor for the washington post, david ignatius, will join us in a moment. joe, just a reminder of why the justice department might be a little concerned about nuclear secrets knocking around mar-a-lago. there was the time that trump spilled highly classified information to russia s foreign minister. or when he tweeted a highly classified satellite photo of an iranian space facility. or when he sided with the kremlin over america s own intelligence agencies. my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it s russia. i have president putin. he just said it s not russia. i will say this, i don t see any reason why it would be. yeah. so with that in mind, we begin with new information on the fbi s search of donald trump s home in florida. people familiar with the investigat ....
word hoax and refuting reports there s a nuclear component to this. those details coming from the washington post. people familiar with the investigation tell the post classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items agents were searching for. associates did not disclose any more details about the type of documents or if any were recovered. as the former president s allies slam the fbi and doj attorney general garland is pushing back. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi and justice department agents and prosecutors. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and the justice department are dedicated, patriotic public servants. you ll remember we shared a warning from the fbi director denouncing a rise in violent rhetoric towards law enforcement wednesday. now the director says he is focusing on the safety and security of fbi employees in the wake ....
believed former president donald trump was a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted. he has said privately that he wanted mr. garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of january 6th. garland got the message and did what the big guy wanted. but the raid was a replay of the mueller investigation. remember when trump handed over thousands and thousands of documents, showed the special counsel everything and they still tried to charge him with obstructing a crime that he didn t commit? the same thing happened this summer. trump s team cooperated. it was friendly. they handed over boxes that the liberal librarian wanted over at the archives the feds still slapped trump with a subpoena in june. and trump kept cooperating. a team flew down to mar-a-lago, trump s lawyers showed them what was in boxes. they said whatever you are looking for, here, just take it. they all had a nice lunch by ....
the us state department has called for a demiliterized zone to be set up around the station in zaporizhia. tonight with the context, the republican strategist rina shah and the writer and broadcaster chris morris. hello, welcome to the programme. it is three days since fbi agents executed a search warrant on the florida home of donald trump. there are reports today the feds removed 11 boxes of documents, on top of the 15 boxes they took away in december. there are also reports within the us media today that the raid on mar a lago was based largely on information from an fbi source. someone from within who was able to identify what classified documents the former president was hiding and where they would find them. so unprecented was that search that some within thejustice department have been calling for the attorney general to give an explanation. and in the last hour, merrick garland called an unscheduled press conference to announce he will make the warrant public. t ....