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january 6th connection to a deadly confrontation in ohio. plus, the republican response. some trump allies may now be trying to tamp down the rhetoric, while waiting for whatever comes next. as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, chilling breaking news about the fbi s a search of mar-a-lago. the washington post reporting agents were looking for nuclear documents. quote, classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s florida residents on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. they did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including weathered involved weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation. nor did they say such documents were recovered as part of the search. one up the post reporters on that story added this earlier tonight. ....
good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, chilling breaking news about the fbi s a search of mar-a-lago. the washington post reporting agents were looking for nuclear documents. quote, classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. they did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including weathered involved weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation. nor did they say such documents were recovered as part of the search. one of the post reporters on that story added this earlier tonight. we know that it was a significant part of what they wanted, and when the first one went down the former president gained them 15 boxes of material. it was top secret documents in those boxes. when they came back on monday, they got 12 more boxes ....
Many trump allies have been attacking the doj and the fbi for days. and today, armed men fired a nail gun into an fbi field office in cincinnati, ohio. he then fled and was killed during a confrontation with police. no agents were hurt. the officials say this very same man was at the u.s. capitol on january 6th. we will have much more on that reporting later in the hour. but with that, let s get smarter with the help of our lead off panel and i assure you, it is a good one. yamiche and sunder nbc news correspondent moderator on pbs, katie benner, pulitzer prize-winning justice department reporter from the new york times, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, who has spent 25 years as a federal prosecutor, she is also a law professor at the university of alabama. and clint watts, we are me graduate, former fbi special agent, and a distinguished research fellow at the four policy research institute. clint, i turn to use first. i wanted to share with you with ....
Hours ago, about the potential nuclear document, he himself has not said one single word on the social media platform he uses. what does that tell you about how backed into a corner he is? while stephanie, that s a great question. what we saw today was attorney general merrick garland really coming out and not speaking in legal argument but also in some ways a publication move. this is a narrative about the search warrant that was executed at mar-a-lago that was being co-opted and really written by republicans and by president trump. they were calling it a hoax they were calling it a witch hunt, they were saying that was part of a deep state, even suggesting that the department justice should be defunded and the fbi should be defunded. so merrick garland came out today and wanted to really put punch back, and really say, that s one point, he was very clear about this, faithful adherence to the law is the bedrock of our country is the bedrock of the department of justice. and he is sa ....
Carry the south. but you hear now former president trump, really i think not only the ball is on his, court but now he has to answer about whether or not he wants to have this kind of transparency that he s been playing that he wants. because you ve seen republicans circle the wagons, you ve seen republicans really come out, in his defense, and former president trump s defense, and really wanting to try to say anything and everything in order to say that this is wrong. but what we don t really see it whether or not former president trump is actually going to say, yes, let s look at these materials. let s make the argument. let s have this public discussion about why this search warrant was approved by a judge and why the search warrant was important. and why of course these items were taken from my home. but because we haven t really gotten a clear answer whether or not president trump, he might be pulling back on what we know is a try and true the way that president trump and his al ....