s florida home. an event that has ignited a political and legal firestorm. nbc news reports the fbi search was related to classified information trump allegedly took with him from the white house in january, 2021. trump s lawyer confirms to nbc news that agents took about a dozen boxes from a basement storage area. she says trump s legal team was talking to the justice department about white house records and that officials had come to mar-a-lago this spring to discuss that matter. that was after 15 boxes of documents were already returned to the national archives earlier this year. tonight the wall street journal and the washington post report that monday s search came after the feds got concerned that some records were still being withheld. the former president and his allies have relentlessly attacked the fbi and the doj for conducting the search and they have implied that president biden was behind it which the white house denies. no, the president was not briefed, was
under scrutiny. the past 24 hours have been a doozy. it was yesterday evening when thedo former president, donald trump, put out a rambling, chest pounding, feet stomping statement announcing to the world that the fbi had raided his words his florida home. so-called law and order president called it a witch hunt and gave a shoutout to hillary clinton about her emails. he cldid, however, let the worl know a fascinating detail that the fbi got into his safe as part of their search. so let s take a step back now. it s been 24 hours. acknowledge the seriousness of what happened yesterday. justice department officials didn t just wake up yesterday and usdecide, hey, let s send se federal agents to search the immediate past president s home because we think a crime was committed there. what this hour s long search on trump s homeur means is that la enforcement had to convince a federal judge that there was probable cause that a crime was committed there. federal prosecutors had to
the video trump tweeted on the six when he told supporters to go home, and that he loved them. we ll also be part of the hearing. earlier this evening, committee member, jamie raskin, was asked about it. hours had passed wet he could ve simply took an a walk for ten or 15 seconds, over to address the country, and address his followers, and tell them to go home. and people were beseeching him, begging him, to do that. and he refused to do that. so that he finally went over and made some comments then at the end of the day, when it was clear that no thanks to the president, our police forces had turned the tide. it s extremely revealing how exactly he went about making those statements and we re gonna let everybody see parts of that. tomorrow s hearing begins at 8 pm eastern. you can absolutely see it here on msnbc. chairman bennie thompson was tested positive for covid will lead the hearing but will do be doing it virtually. we expect to hear from former trump white house
investigation. some epic cringe from the republican senators forced to take a position on same-sex marriage. this is such a silly message he built, i m just not going to address that. why one bad candidate can keep those republican senators from taking control. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, tomorrow night at exactly this time the january six committee will convene its second primetime hearing. we will of course be airing it here live on msnbc including special coverage afterwards. this hearing is gonna focus on the one man responsible for the attempted coup and insurrection, donald trump. and as we head towards that hearing, two things have never been clearer in my mind. first, that it was trump s plan all along to overturn the will of the voters and the american public, to fire a bullet into the heart of american democracy. to use any means necessary a force if it took that. to install himself as ruler of the united states. se
problematic authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. now, that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the new york times or and the washington post, for quote relentlessly reported coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election,ru and its connectionso the trump campaign, the president-elect transition team, and his eventual administration. now that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually led the pulitzer board to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. and this week, the pulitzer board has announced the results of those investigations, and here is part of what they said. no passages or headlines, contentions or assertions in any of the winning submissions were discredited by facts that subsequent to the con fe