fbi search warrant. plus, how a new crop of maga winners raises the stakes for the midterms. an explosive new reporting on the secret history of family separation. american people don t like the idea that we re separating families. we never really intended to do. that the atlantic s kaitlan dickinson has the untold story of an american catastrophe, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m alicia menendez in for chris hayes. 48 hours later there are many unanswered questions surrounding the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. right now, the ex president is not even in florida, he s new york city to testify in a distant different to investigation into his conduct. this is a civil investigation into the trump organization led by the new york state attorney general letitia james. trump said he would not answer any questions, instead invoking his fifth amendment right. something as you well know he has mocked others for in the past. we have more o
new information about the fbi s search of donald trump s florida home. trump world has now reportedly started speculating about who in the former presidents orbit, might have talked to the fbi, and what it could mean for the investigation. we will have more on that later. but let s go back in time a little. to 2005. more than a decade before donald trump s first run for president, before he started fighting with racist birtherism conspiracies, back when he was just a real estate guy, with a funny hairdo, and a reality tv show, that year the intrepid journalist, tim o brien, the guy on the left, the side to side digging into the so-called trump empire. and what he found then probably wouldn t shock anyone today. but back then it was a big deal. tim o brien discovered that donald trump s much lauded business success was actually far less impressive than trump had anyone to believe. he found that donald trump had been significantly overstating his net worth by billions of dollar
good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. tonight, brand-new reporting about what led the fbi to execute a search warrant as trump s florida home. the wall street journal said the department of defense may have got a tip from an insider after feds visited mar-a-lago in june to ask about government documents possibly stored there. the journal reports this. in the following weeks however someone familiar with the storm papers told investigators still may be still more documents at the private club after the national archives which he 15 boxes early in the year, people familiar with the matter said. and we see news is not can confirmed this reporting. the justice department has not commented on the search either. trump is wrapping up their bases attacks even suggesting that the fbi couldn t be planning incriminating evidence. do i know that the boxes of material that they took from mar-a-lago, that they won t put things in those boxes to entrap him? his lawyer said the
declining to answer more than 440 questions during a civil deposition in new york on wednesday. i will be joined by former national security advisor and u.n. ambassador john bolton to talk about the iranian plots to kill him and four other top trump national security officials and to get his reaction to the new legal troubles surrounding his former boss. and i will speak to chef and global humanitarian jose andres from ukraine to update the work by his non-profit to keep communities fed after more than five months of war. he met with president zelenskyy today. let s talk about the internal deliberations within the justice department. barbara, we understand that there are concerns inside the fbi and others that the fbi chief chris wray was so careful about the justice department guidance that he did not push back when he was in nebraska yesterday against the false claims by the president and others the fbi could have planted information there. yeah. that is a baseless piece
and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, ken, what do we know? reporter: chris, this happened at 9 a 15 a.m., two law enforcement officials told nbc news that a man entered an fbi field office in cincinnati, ohio, and fired a nail gun at law enforcement personnel. the man then held up an ar-15 style rifle before fleeing in a vehicle, we re today, and then a pursuit occurred on highway 71. the suspect then got out of the car. and there is a standoff. the fbi, cincinnati field office, confirmed in a statement that an armed subject had attempted to breach their visitor screening facility. they said they activated an alarm. and armed special agents responded and that the subject fled northbound on interstate 71. the clinton county emergency management agency said recently in a facebook post that the suspect has not yet taken into custody but is contained. they say he s wearing a gray shirt and body armor and is armed. chris, obviously, this comes amid a big uptick in threat