search under a warrant signed by a judge. merrick garland says the doj will ask the judge to unseal the warrant and property seized. the department filed the motion to make public the warrant and receipt in light of the public s confirmation of the search, surrounding circumstances and the substantial public interest in this matter. washington post now reports the fbi was looking for classified documents related to nuclear weapons. the post sources did not say whether those documents related to u.s. nukes or those of another nation, nor whether any such documents were recovered. want to bring in former federal prosecutor and author of a spy in plain sight. so nice to have you on the program. washington post reporting is that the fbi was looking for classified nuclear weapons-related documents. if this is true, does it change the legal risk for president trump, what i might be charged with here? potentially. i mean, we know looking at the affidavit even the applicati
d.c. courthouse where navarro is expected to arrive in about an hour and a half. we ve got a lot to talk about and the best people to talk about it. new york times chief white house correspondent peter baker. nbc s pete williams. nbc s sahil kapur on capitol hill. ari melber, msnbc chief legal correspondent and host of the beat. let me start with you, ari, because i saw peter navarro on your program last night. he did not appear, to me, to be a man who thought he might be in federal custody less than 24 hours later. that s exactly right. he didn t sound like that. he didn t talk like that. he said he was in some sort of discussions with doj. this began with his public statements about what he called a green bay sweep or an effort to overturn the election, something he thought was legal, he talked about, and defied the congressional request and subpoena to testify about it. he did tell me about it here on msnbc. i said to him last night, if you re going to describe these
differently as my father back this the day would have done.it differently as my father back this the day would have done. so they were trying to protect the former president s privacy. it was he who made it a public issue and created the outcry. and we had the florida state attorney on the other day who, you know, was talking about reminding us that there had been a suspected chinese spy who had tried to gain access to mar-a-lago. so real world consequences here when you are talking about potentially very serious and secret information. a lot we don t know. exactly. the new ew book is spy in pl sight. thank you. and monday s certainly was not the first time the investigators came away with documents from mar-a-lago. investigators brought a grand jury subpoena to a june meeting
to strike the tone. he understand what is folks are going through. he s also, again, leaning in on this messaging point. here you go. this is the putin price hike. putin price hike. putin s price hike. so, i was talking to a democrat the other day who, to be fair, thinks that people aren t being fair to the president on the economy but also said the message, putin s price hike, has gone about as far as it can. the white house needs to come up with something different. talk to us about the white house messaging. clearly they think that putting it on putin and on the war in ukraine is helping them. yeah, that s exactly right. i think the white house feels like they were sort of in a bad position either way because if president biden didn t act to limit russia s access to energy revenues, he would have gotten hit from the right for being insufficiently tough on russia. and if he did act and have a u.s. energy embargo and push the europeans to do the same, then he gets hit when gas p