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
both the search warrant and the inventory receipt. the wall street journal appears to have already seen both. the paper is reporting the fbi took 11 sets of classified documents from mar-a-lago, including one set of documents marked as tssci documents. that means top secret, sensitive, compartmented information. in other words, some of the most sensitive material the u.s. government says it has. stuff that is only meant to be seen in special government facilities. this would jibe with what multiple outlets have been reporting already, that the d.o.j. was looking for highly classified documents at mar-a-lago and potentially with what the washington post, citing sources familiar, with that knows documents were about nuclear weapons. if so, that would explain the urgency behind the search. nbc has not confirmed the washington post reporting and we have not confirmed the wall street journal reporting but we all could be about to. the warrant and inventory list could be un
and nail gun who tried to break into an fbi field office today. investigators now looking into whether the suspect had ties to right wing extremism. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. tonight, countdown. there is a deadline on the table, 3:00 p.m. tomorrow. that s when a judge says he needs a response from president trump to the doj, so he can make a formal ruling on whether to make that search warrant of mar-a-lago public. it comes as attorney general merrick garland took the step today of speaking out. breaking his silence, saying that he signed off on the warrant to search trump s mar-a-lago home personally, and he s doing it by the book. now formally requesting a judge to make the search warrant and supporting documents used in the search of trump s mar-a-lago public. just now, the justice department 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 condu
search warrant. just because trump says he wants the documents released, doesn t necessarily mean that is what his lawyers will tell a judge. trump had possession of these documents since monday. and has chosen not to release them. so this could very well develop throughout the day. also another potentially mammoth bit of reporting overnight from the washington post. i ll read from it right now. their lead is classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought on monday according to people familiar with the investigation. now, this would put the possible concern over these documents at an entirely different level. so let s work through all this new information this morning. cnn kaitlyn poe lants in washington. reporter: good morning. this late night announcement from donald trump saying he s encouraging the immediate release of these documents i just checked the court files. and there is no filing yet from either the justice departm