stephanie ruhle, you still hav a show to do tonight at 11 eastern. we ve got lots to go lots to go now it s time to hand the whee to our colleague lawrenc o donnell. thank you, rachel donald trump was speaking, a you, know during your coverage and after the judge said i court today that he wanted the parties to this case to stop saying inflammatory things donald trump went right afte the judge and his wife today so, tonight, in that speech. so, we ll see, the judge could react to that very quickly after setting the preceden today in today s arraignment for, you know, don t do that kind of thing. so, we ll see what happens next we are entering potentially a new area of consequences for that kind of behavior for that particular politician. we are. thank you, rachel. thank you. today, donald trump took the longest trip of his life it was from his apartment in midtown manhattan to the courthouse in lower manhattan, where he would be fingerprinte and discover the contents of
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
warning may be common in other contexts, this was really shock to former president trump, making it very clear that yo have to follow the quorum an my orders and you have t respect this proceedings otherwise there ar consequences and very real ones within reason, you canno control the former president outside the courtroom, especially when he has tha pulpit in general, but then yo run the risk, where he runs th risk of a gag order, and w start hearing things about family members of other parties, they can get ugly quickly, and that was absolutely not what the president wants to see happen andrew, we have talked once or twice in this program about the possibility of donald trum testifying in his own, defense which of course unfortunatel for trump means under oath, an that is a big problem becaus you ve got perjury sitting right beside him every secon that he is talking a lot of people say that you can never put him on the witness stand, but this case today it looks like one of those c
ali. the espionage act makes it a crime to gather and retain improperly national defense information. it doesn t even have to be classified information, it doesn t matter of donald trump declassify that information. as long as it reports to the national defense which, nuclear, weapon information absolutely would qualify for. it s a crime to mishandle this. it s punishable for up to ten years in prison. it s a serious development. i wanted to go back to what you, said there s no explanation to this. i ve spoken to many people in government, you know, doesn t you everyone who works in government, knows this, you can t take, anything you can t ever it s all government property. anything that happened during the time you are in government, it s government property, can t take it. but i ve been people wondering, and i m one of them, could these be pictures of boxes of pictures or notes or things that are an important? but what s cia director brendan told me earlier is, no, there is no