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trump has been calling for it to be released on social media. his lawyers have yet to take legal action on this. lawyers for news organizations, including nbc news, are petitions in court today for the affidavit to be made public. dr. fauci will be with me as cdc director dr. walensky announces a major overall at the cdc, acknowledging the agency failed to respond quickly enough to the pandemic over the last three years and did not serve the public. all this as the agency is scrambli...

understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former presidents home. >> sandra: one part reading "after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises." >...

would impact their willingness to cooperate with the investigation. that means that someone or more than one person is cooperating with the doj. and number three, disclosure of the government affidavit would chill future cooperation in other high-profile investigations. what are those other investigations? the doj also adds, quote, the government does not object to unsealing other materials filed in connection with the search warrant whose unsealing would not jeopardize the integrity o...

taken. >> they made public the warrant and receipt in light of the former presidents public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. >> reporter: on friday, some details of those documents were revealed. fbi agents removed more than 20 boxes of materials as well as binders of photos and at least one handwritten note. according to the property receipt, seizing one set of, quote, top secret csi documents, four sets of, ...

i can see that -- i can see alexandria obviously talking there but we are having a bit of and adio issue, we will circle back and get back to her in a moment. in the mean time, i will take you out to the great state of florida where we have live pictures of mar-a-lago, the former president trumps beautiful estate. some have called it the southern white house. as for the former president hes pushing back against the fbi search of his home on social media saying the agency should return ...

help. >> remember when actor alec waldron said he never pulled the trigger of the gun on the set of rust. new evidence contradicts those claims. >> a number of the boxes seized by the fbi during their raid of mar-a-lago contain records protected by attorney-client privilege. now president trump wants those documents back. "i respectfully request that these documents be immediately returned to the location from which you were taken. thank you". for more we turned to lucas thomason. >> r...

g.o.p. still expected to take the house but a smaller margin the senate up for grabs. >> i have been wanting to do things outside of the government. >> the covid czar himself dr. anthony fauci moving up his retirement to this december. >> his legacy is presiding over the greatest debacle in public health history. >> action. judd strikes one tout right. forget that number 47 for aaron judd. and its 2-0, yankees. ♪ oh, i want to dance with somebody ♪ i want to feel the heat of somebo...

not a fishing expedition. it is up to them to be able to share with the american public that logic behind what they did, the fact that they had, what caused them. releasing the affidavit would be important. >> we also have new information on a personal message donald trump reportedly sent to merrick garland. back to the fbi top secret documents from his home. were gonna talk about this in a moment with january six committees members. the this hour, the last stand for another january 6t...

welcome to politicsnation. tonights lead, uncharted territory. right now, the week ahead promises to be an unprecedented one for our nation, which of course follows last weeks unprecedented fbi search of donald trumps mar-a-lago estate. and the revelations that have followed since nearly a dozen sets of classified materials were retrieved from the former presidents home, as part of a federal espionage investigation. this weekend, we learned that a trump lawyer sent a letter to the just...

going to ritual actively declassified, or whatever i took home had the effect of the declassifying them, is absurd, the nonetheless, the statutes, the justice department are asserting in the search warrant, dont even require that they still be classified if they would be damaging to national security. its a problem. >> would isnt arguably a problem, that any former president would handle such sensitive documents the way trump reportedly has. nbc news shedding light on how trumps final ...