good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, chilling breaking news about the fbi s a search of mar-a-lago. the washington post reporting agents were looking for nuclear documents. quote, classified documents related to nuclear weapons were among the items fbi agents sought in a search of former president donald trump s florida residence on monday, according to people familiar with the investigation. they did not offer additional details about what type of information the agents were seeking, including weathered involved weapons belonging to the united states or some other nation. nor did they say such documents were recovered as part of the search. one of the post reporters on that story added this earlier tonight. we know that it was a significant part of what they wanted, and when the first one went down the former president gained them 15 boxes of material. it was top secret documents in those boxes. when they came back on monday, they got 12 more boxes. this
declined to comment to the post, and nbc news has not confirmed this reporting. this comes hours after attorney general merrick garland said the justice department is asking to make the search warrant for mar-a-lago a public document. the justice department has filed a motion in the southern district of florida to unseal a search warrant and property receipt. the former president, publicly confirmed the search that evening, as is his right. copies of both the warrant and the fbi property receipt were provided on the day of the search to the former president s counsel who was on site during the search. the search warrant was authorized by federal court, upon the required finding of probable cause. first, i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this manner. second, the department does not