january 6th. we are going to 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 gobsmacking new report from the washington post. here s the headline. fbi searched trump s home to look for nuclear documents and other items, sources say. quote, classified documents relating to nuclear weapons were found among the items that fbi agents sought in a search of the former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. experts in classified information said the unusual search underscores deep concern among government officials about the types of information they thought could be located at trump s mar-a-lago club, and potentially in danger of falling into the wrong hands. one former justice department official, who in the past oversaw investigations of leaks of classified infor
american public and announced that he and the justice department are in fact, prepared to reveal the federal warrant that they obtained to search donald trump s home. the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property received relating to a court-approved search that the fbi conducted earlier this week. that search was a premise located in florida longing 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. the department filed the notion to make public the warrant received. and in light of the former president s public confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. the justice department has filed a motion to unseal the search warrant for donald trump s home. for the past few days, trump
for when they went to mar-a-lago in florida on monday, was documents relating to nuclear weapons, that is a big deal. as everyone listening knows. we don t know for example whether they were related to the documents related to 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 informa
fbi have to search trump s home, why couldn t they have just asked donald trump for the documents? why won t merrick garland explain himself? well, today, we got answers to basically all of those questions. the justice department did ask trump for those documents. they even sent him a subpoena. an informant told them that trump did not hand over everything he promised to hand over and they searched his home as a matter of last resort and attorney general merrick garland is ready to show you the warm front signed by a federal judge authorizing the search as well as a list of what the fbi collected. the question now, what are we going to learn next? joining us is the former federal prosecutor barbara mcquade, barbara, there s so much going on tonight, and i want to start with your reaction, you have seen a lot in your life, in your career, but the breaking news from the washington post that some of the information that the justice department was searching for, the fbi, were nuclear
nuclear documents is, i mean, i don t know what that means. i don t know if this is just information about the kinds you have weapons we have and where we have them or if it s codes. i don t know what that means. so i think exactly what s in it is going to matter and could have an impact. i will tell you this. i mean, there is some polling out today. trump s numbers among republicans have ticked up. obviously, republicans have been very defensive of trump this week because of what happened and i m not surprised. if you look at the reaction republicans had in the immediate wake of the search and the sort of the silence from doj over the last couple of days, i am not surprised to see the numbers. if this turns out to be something minor, i m not i have no idea what it s going to turn out to be. if it turns out to be something minor or something that doesn t seem as important as, say, planning a january 6th riot, which i consider to be a very important matter, i think you will see republ