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
government had established probable cause of potential violation of three federal statutes. number one relates to the unlawful removal of government material. number two relates to the law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents to obstruct an investigation. number three, potentially the most explosive, the espionage act. the inventory of what the fbi seized includes around 20 boxes of items including four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. the list does not provide any more details about the substance of those documents or what might be in them. in addition, there was binders of photos, signatures of the former president, executive grant of clemency for roger stone and my personal favorite quote, info. re the president of france. can t wait to find out what that is. the vagueness of that inventory will leave people wondering exactly what exactly is in those boxes. there will be room for sp
we will bring you that speech live. and in florida, grim new details about how many people were killed by a different hurricane, ian of course. and the new number just coming in. some officials now responding to criticism about their initial response to ian. we ve got our team standing by live on the ground. also this hour, we re live in district court in dc with opening statements happening now, in the conspiracy trial of leaders for the oath keepers. why the defense is hanging its case on something former president trump didn t do, and what prosecutors are saying today about what the defendants said were not enough weapons. we will talk about it coming up. and october, not spooked yet. rare good news lately from the market. the dow up 800 points. we will talk about what is behind the rally on wall street later in the show. i m hallie jackson on assignment for a story you will see later on in the month. joining me is gabe guiterrez in san germane puerto rico and shaq bre
on this call. why did this interaction have the committee so concerned? don, witness tampering is serious. it s a crime, and as ms. cheney stated during the hearing, we passed along this information to the department of justice to look into it further. we take very seriously. the safety of any witnesses, anyone who comes forward to the committee, and like wise their privacy. in this case any speculation who this person might have been and a lot of people trying to tie it together the committee may just say we want to protect this witness. but we also want to hold people accountable who have potentially broken the law. chairman thompson is telling cnn the doj has been asking for testimony from the committee related to trump s fake elector scheme. is there enough evidence on this one issue to lead to a criminal indictment of trump? well, the committee s not the one who s going to determine the criminal indictment. that would be the department of justice. so, you know, as
with the economy inflation and stagnation and gas prices we learned this week they sent out emergency will reserves to china and lied about it. when it comes to oil it is something we ll companies decide we cannot control what they do with their oil. steve: we can t control it? when they sound like they are doing something then they scream do it now but when they are embarrassed by that shipment we cannot control what they do. we already knew biden was a true amazing combination of incompetence dishonest divisive week and authoritarian captured by the far left yet still he stubbornly insists to carry on despite the daily embarrassments of his presidents. repeat the line you are truly an amazing combination of incompetence weekend authoritarian new are captured by the far left and controlled by your aides that you stubbornly insists to carry on despite the daily embarrassment of your presidency. with all that chaos and corruption that hasn t been as visible lately but all