warrant. what happens next? welcome, everybody. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto for your world. we begin with david spunt at the justice department. david? i was in the room when merrick garland made those comments, history-making comment to see an attorney general talk about a search warrant that he authorized, the final person to sign off on the search warrant of a former president of the united states. i want to play some of what the attorney general said. listen. first, i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. charles, for days attorney general garland and fbi districter christopher wray have been under scrutiny for not coming out and speaking about this. attorney general merrick garland did today. he spoke a littl
the attorney general saying he, personally approved the warrants to carry out the raids and has filed a motion to unseal it. justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premises located in florida belonging to the former president. copies of both the warrant and the fbi property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former president s counsel who was on site during the search. upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly without fear or favor. under my watch, that is precisely what the justice department is doing. i, personally, approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. judge jeanine: garland also defending the fbi from criticism in how it carried out the search of trump s home. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi