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. we kn
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. this
Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in new york alongside Chris Jansing for what could be the end of testimony in Donald Trumps criminal trial. Michael cohen is on the stand for a second day of crossexamination. Katy tur will join us in a moment. Trumps attorney, todd blanche, is pressing the president s onetime loyal ally turned adversary. The defense highlighting the many times cohen admits he lied under oath. Is he lying now . The only person who can counter much of what cohen is testifying about is donald trump himself. We are still waiting for a final decision on whether he will take the stand. With us in the studio, danny cevalos, catherine christian, and Criminal Defense Attorney and former manhattan prosecutor jeremy sala. Catherine, very low expectation that donald trump will take the stand. One of the things we are interested in, a 19minute sidebar before Michael Cohen came in. We are waiting for the transcript, which should hit during these hours. There was a provocative
spoken to the president about what s nuclear materials may or may not have been in there. i do not believe that there were any. how does a report like that come out and trump s attorney hasn t even spoken to him yet? the department of and fbi have declined to comment to the post, and nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. this comes hours after attorney general merrick garland said the justice department is asking to make the search warrant for mar-a-lago it public document. the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt. the former president, publicly confirmed the search that evening, as is his right. 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.
declined to comment to the post, and nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. this comes hours after attorney general merrick garland said the justice department is asking to make the search warrant for mar-a-lago a public document. the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt. the former president, publicly confirmed the search that evening, as is his right. 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. the search warrant was authorized by federal court, upon the required finding of probable cause. first, i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this manner. second, the department does not