this is quite a week, john. thanks for being here. good to see you, see you next week, bro. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber, and we begin with this breaking news. the mar-a-lago search warrant has been unsealed. we have it. you may have heard, and most importantly, as you see here, this is something we don t usually get. we ve never gotten it for a former president, and we had no idea when the week started that we d be going through it. a documented list of the things that donald trump allegedly took or stole, property of the u.s. government and intelligence material. we re going get into this right now. we start with what s in here. we don t start with the law, although it is the law that brought us this information. we start with the search warrants property and inventory list. lets take a look. you re going see at the top how this works. search and seizure warrant. you see that? page 1 of it. then on page 5, and if we can, we ll bring this to you in full. can we br
important ally of the united r states in the western hemisphere. brazil is a big deal and yet the administration seems determined ms to hand brazil over to the sphere of influence ofof the chinese communist party . why is that exactly? we hope to find out. for a also be sitting down for a rare interview with the president of brazil. terrible scenario. soon we ll bring s to him. we do.h but first i would like to begin with the loud and at times violent response to the end of roe v. wade that came down to the supreme court on friday.. as you know, if beenvee following this , you may have noticed a profound change in the way the democratic party talks about the issue of abortion gone is the embassy or the room for compromise. so from the very beginning ofe this debate 50 years ago, even the staunchest pro-life acknowledge the anguish of young womensh who are pregnant and don t want to be alone and feel trapped by the childha growing inside them.t and that is the reasonas that pr
the receipts showing exactly what the agents found, catalogued and took, seized because it wasn t trump s property from the property compound you see on your screen. that includes 11 sets of classified documents, some at the highest level of classification. one set marked top secret sci, top secret compartmentalized info and they are only to be viewed at special facilities and mar-a-lago is not one of them. there are three sets of secret and three confidential. all of this comes after donald trump returned what looks like the partial amount according to the government not authorized to be there. 15 boxes that went back in january. now on this basically third go around, they re still finding top secret documents. property receipt does not explain the substance because the government doesn t want everyone to know what is in there. washington post reporting fbi agents were looking for classified documents that could relate to nuclear weapons when they carried out the search. nbc
about this person s motivations, but certainly as you mentioned. mar-a-lago is full of trump staff. and when he was leaving the white house, he would not probably have packed all of these documents into boxes by himself. so it is also intriguing to note that the warrant doesn t list any particular target of investigation. so it is unclear whether mr. trump is a target of the investigation, or whether it is somebody in his staff that they might be looking at more closely. so it does lose potential statutes of violations of certain statutes. but it doesn t say exactly who is in focus from the justice department. and that is the kind of information we might find in an affidavit, which we are not likely to see. certainly not now. you reported that trump initially cooperated with the fbi, handing over documents that any thoughts at all. but then in the spring, talks between the two parties soured. and it happened after investigators began doubting the trump team was being truthful about w
had the power, that doesn t mean it was anything positive or a good idea. so for years in plain sight was those type of problems calling them sloppiness or seriousness about the job and then you have the total attacks on anything that could be a check on his power. so donald trump clearly and publicly said this, this sounds like criticism but it is how he operated, was attacking independent intelligence, national security officials, the fbi and the doj, as basically bad because they were somehow a check on his power. he raged against the intelligence chief, we talked about cyber threats of russia and china. and, and this is quite clever and i thought this was quite funny, perhaps intelligence should go back to school. i m now joined by peter struck and sarah kenser, scholar who specialized in authoritarian states and the author of they