that search warrant. shortly after the attorney general spoke, the former president released a statement, once again, attacking the fbi, but not saying one way or another, whether or not he will support the release of that search warrant. tonight, the new york times katie better was the first to report that trump allies are considering opposing the release of the warrant, and they contacted outside lawyers to discuss the possibility, nbc news has not yet confirmed that reporting. but it seems a lot more understandable now than it did a couple hours ago when i first saw that reporting. maybe if you are trump's lawyers, you don't want this stuff out there. for now we're gonna have to wait and see what happens. but even before merrick garland made his statement to the public, we were already learning new details about the search and how it happened. nbc news has confirmed that the justice department sent donald trump a subpoena for missing white house documents before the fbi searched his home looking for them. some time before actually. as a new york times first