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
It ourselves, but if that s true, that s a kind of stuff that the fbi was looking for, maybe if i am trump world, i don t want the warrant being publicized. i think that trump was gaming out and bluffing a bit here when he was clamoring about, this is an outrage, we have to see what this is all about, we have to hear from the justice department. they fully expected i think, the justice department to rely on its policy, to conform nor deny the existence of this investigation, and to say nothing, and to speak only through court filings. and this one was under seal. really, this is a purely brilliant strategy by a garland here. i don t know if it was his idea or one of his staff, but someone said what did we did talk through our documents. because i think merrick garland was chosen for this job to restore the norms to the justice department. and as i said, it s important to have norms, and it s even more important to adhere to them in times of crisis. and this is one of them. so he foun
Document nuclear weapons belonging to the united states, or nuclear weapons belonging to another nation. perhaps reporting can shed light on that. frankly, those documents were covered by the fbi in the search. we know that one of the reasons they started the search warrant and went down to mar-a-lago with authorization from a judge to with [inaudible] safe and private quarters is because they were looking for the cost by talking as i had to do with nuclear weapons. i want to be very clear here, at the information, the reporting you re able to get, is that they were seeking for some of this information. not necessarily that they got the information. that is right. we can confirm, according to our sources, the fbi went to mar-a-lago in search of this information. we do not know, however, whether they actually recovered the documents that they were looking to find. there was some talk in trump
Realized that important documents were missing, quote, a person familiar with the inventory of 15 boxes taken from mar-a-lago in january indicated that signals intelligence material was included in them. the precise nature of the information was unclear. as the washington post notes and it s reporting, signals intelligence can include things like intercepted emails and phone calls of foreign leaders. there s a lot of information here. we will try to unpack a lot of it. we have some excellent guests to provide reporting and analysis for you about this story which has suddenly been the last hour become substantially more serious than it already was, and it was already substantially very serious. joining us now by phone is philip rucker, he is the deputy national editor at the washington post. he was the editor for this bombshell piece tonight. phil, i deeply appreciate you being with us tonight. i know it s a busy night for