took place. he blasted it as politically motivated. there is republican allies and congress. right-wing media who pushed his accusations, and might i add, not to shiloh. they demanded transparency. merrick garland and the attorney general is basically calling trump s bluff, isn t he? the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt relating to a search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premise located in florida belonging to the former president. the department did not make any public statements on the day of the search. the former president publicly confirmed the search that evening as is his right. copies of both the warrant and fbi property receipt or provided on the day of the search to the former presidents
allies and republicans on capitol hill have been clamoring for the attorney general to explain himself, come out and explain this fbi search of a former president s home. and so merrick garland basically said, okay, fine, you want answers, i ll show you the warrant. attorney general garland also confirmed today that he personally signed off on the search of trump s home prior to it happening, and he made a point of calling out the attacks on federal law enforcement that have been emanating from the political right ever since this search became public. let me address recent unfounded attacks on the professionalism of the fbi, and justice department agents and prosecutors. i will not stand by silently when their integrity is unfairly attacked. the men and women of the fbi and the justice department are dedicated patriotic public servants. every day, they protect the american people from violent
due time. but he has been claiming he is a victim of a government vendetta and he has actually raising money off of that claim as well. i mean, this is probably playing into garland s move to make the documents public. the department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the former president s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances, and the substantial public interest in this matter. yeah, i would say it s substantial. it is very substantial. you know what? we should know a lot more about doj s request by tomorrow because it s been told they have been told to inform the court by 3:00 p.m. if trump o o opposes releasing the documents. a lot to talk about. evan perez, chief political ana ana analyst gloria borger and elie honig. you all probably thought you would have a nice dinner today
the justice department were documents that had to do with special access programs. now, these are the nation s most closely guarded national security secrets. nuclear weapons programs would be among those types of documents. so, again, this is what the washington post is reporting. but it sort of falls in line with what we know has already been found. highly classified documents that should never have left the white house, should never have left washington, and were sent down to the former president s beach house, and that s the reason why they have had this months-long interaction trying to retrieve documents, sending a subpoena back in june, laura, retrieving only of those documents and why you saw this escalation, which ended up happening on monday with the search. . gloria, it s very difficult for anyone to look at this and say, oh, you know, this is sort of like a pen.
don lemon tonight and begins right now. nice to see you. hey, girl, hey. good night, hey. thank you so much. everyone, this is don lemon tonight. i m sitting in for don lemon. we are beginning with a major development which may explain partially the fbi s urgency in getting back classified documents from trump s mar-a-lago home. you know, tonight the washington post is quoting sources who are saying that investigators were searching for classified nuclear documents and other items. and there was deep concern among officials about the material potentially ending up in the wrong hands. . sources don t say if such documents were recovered. but this follows an extraordinary move by the attorney general merrick garland. he asked a federal court to unseal the warrant that permitted the search to take place in the first place. now, the surprise decision setting off a quick chain of events tonight and a source saying trump and his team appear