about merrick garland.ssued a written statement, after merrick garland spoke today, but it was a rehash. of the stuff that he has already set. something the staff could have put together and using lines that he has already use this week. i'm gonna written out and it's entirely just to demonstrate that it is donald trump's version of being speechless. this is his version of silence because these words were all use and previous ailments this week. he actually put out a statement tonight simply saying, my tony and representatives were cooperating fully, and very good relationships have been established. the government could have had whatever they want to, if we had it. they asked us to put an additional lock on a certain area, done. everything was fine, better than that most previous presidents, and then, out of nowhere and with no warning, mar-a-lago was raided, at 6:30 in the morning, by very large numbers of agents and even safe crackers. they got way ahead of themselves, crazy! >> that's it, that's it that

not merrick garland. so when you have the target of the search making it pun, the interest of saying oh, we don't want to hurt the civil liberties of the target of the investigation by casting aspersions, that carries a lot less weight to acknowledge then that there in fact is an investigation because the target of the investigation has himself made it public. so i'm sure that weighed in on merrick garland's decision today. i'm going to take the other side of the wager from neal and say that i do think that he's going to talk about the search. i think it's pretty hard to come out and not say something. even though i'm confident that everyone will be left with a lot of questions because i don't think he's going to go into a lot of detail. but i think it's pretty hard to come out, not say anything and neal will certainly at the end, when this is over, you know, chastise me if i got this wrong. >> we will see. tim nichols, i know we only have a for a couple month minutes, so i just want to get you in one mor

>> well, mcconnell, if you noticed, katy, merrick garland should address this, and merrick garland has addressed this. he has not said this is a rogue operation. mitch mcconnell wants literally nothing to do -- his statement about this raid, or about this search did not even include donald trump's name, katy. so he will have no problem, if the evidence presents itself, throwing donald trump under the bus. absolutely no problem. despises the man at this point. and the senate leadership has been john thune didn't endorse donald trump last time. i don't anticipate he will ever endorse donald trump. the senate republican leadership is a little bit different, save rick scott, who takes every opportunity to tie himself to trump. and who has also similarly criticized i believe this raid -- this search warrant situation. so you'll see a big split there between mcconnell and mccarthy, the two republican leaders who have taken very different tacks when it comes to donald trump. >> joyce, again, we don't know what we don't know. and so i don't want to go out there and guess what they might have f

and then on the third day merrick garland spoke. that you talked about all happened on minute. they could have gone on to and the fbi has taken on a considerable amount of water and criticism over those few days and we talk about the frustration that was visible on camera with him today. implicit in that is one of the things he was talking about, and the process they've gone through and the steps they've taken in reading between the lines and they were trying to avoid a spectacle, right? but we're talking about donald j. trump who will turn everything into a spectacle. that's not necessarily criticism. that's his modus operandi here and it appears the justice department was not ready for the onslaught that trump and maga world and this newly reformed -- newly reconstructed republican party on donald trump has pushed on him in the last few days. >> i do not know if the reporting is true that the timing of this was part of the calculation of the timing of the search was they wanted to do it while trump was in new york and they thought

we are waiting on remarks from the attorney general, merrick garland.know that they will be about the search of former president trump's home on monday. the attorney general was expected to be at about 30 minutes ago, but we are standing by waiting for those remarks. a remarkable time in this investigation. the pressure has been so intense for the ag to say

merrick garland came out today and didn't clear any of that up. if anything, we have more questions now, the american people, by and large, than they did a couple hours ago before he came out and spoke. >> brian: those two attorneys, which we've seen on the air in various podcasts, television networks, including one on jesse's show, they weren't allowed inside. 80 degrees in california, and sat outside for eight, nine hours, trying to understand the predicate behind it. i happened to talk on eric on monday, and i couldn't believe how cal and calculated he was, how angry he is, but almost saying, look it, this is what i'm dealing with on a regular basis. but what i also found, i was watching the bbc and sky news, they can't make heads or tails of it, asking our reporters what's going on in america. i kind of worry about that beyond this administration, beyond the past administration. do you? >> i mean, i think everyone is worried about it. i think that we don't see the country that we used to know right now. this sort of political harassment and ta

that wasn't indicated by merrick garland. he's saying that they have the warrant, they have the receipt as you say of what was taken. but what they don't have is the underlying affidavit that prompted this judge to say, okay, go in, based on what you're saying is potentially criminal, that needs to be taken out of that residence right now. i mean, it all goes to the question which understandably michael mukasey couldn't answer but where is this going? >> bret: where is it going? you know, you still don't see a tie to january 6. you see classified documents. we don't have the answers to the key questions yet. even though there was this five-minute statement, we have a lot more questions now i think. we have one question answered that the attorney general was personally involved. that was from sources, various sources and various media outlets not clear. other people in the doj said he was removed from the decision. that was all straightened out from his point of view. what was not is the cause. they're saying it's going to com

that merrick garland is not moving to unseal that. the other two documents that donald trump has, merrick garland said i'm going to show them now. >> that affidavit is crucial and central to the investigation. you would expect that that would be released at this point. >> no. typically that only gets released if and when there's a charge. if somebody gets searched and indicted, then they will be begin a copy of that affidavit. again, this is the very long, detailed document. so that that person can then challenge it in court. typically the defendant or the person who's been searched will ask the judge to throw out whatever was found because they'll argue that the affidavit was insufficient, did not establish probable cause. so that's the longest, most specific, most detailed document. we are still not going to see that, but we are going to see if garland's motion is granted, which i suspect it will be, by the judge. then we will see the warrant itself, which will give us some crucial information. and we will see the return -- the inve

merrick garland said, yes.a monica and merrick garland and involve classified information and by extension, involved american national security, merrick garland said, i don't care where they are, go get them. i think that what we learned -- and again, i really don't think merrick garland is trying to send anyone a signal, not donald trump, not you and not me, but what we do know is where there are crimes, merrick garland didn't draw a line around mar-a-lago and say, this is too precious, this is too sacred. he said go, get it. >> or that this will cause too much of a kerfuffle. i think there are times, often the most powerful signals, the most powerful tells are ones that you're not trying to send. they're the things that the careful eye sees the tell, and says, now i know something about that guy. he didn't mean to tell me that but i know something about him. here's tim o'brien. i'll ask you a couple questions and let you get back to your investigation. tim says, trump's search should be garland's opening act.

merrick garland is everything donald trump isn't. he's the epitome of integrity, educated, civil, cool-minded and only moves when he's forced to. anybody who thinks garland came into the attorney general with the idea of raiding mar-a-lago, going after donald trump doesn't know merrick garland. so i think he's been kind of coy this week, got it done, did the press conference today and see what happens, but if this has something to do, which it looks like it does, with trump bringing nuclear documents to mar-a-lago refusing to give them up, we're dealing with a big, big time history moment here where the president of the united states is almost committing a kind of treason by having at a cheesy resort in florida our key nuclear documents. >> do you agree, carl? >> i don't think we're there yet, but i think what we know is that there are in mar-a-lago unsecure, have been for months and months and months documents that the russians, that the chinese, that our foreign adversaries would love to have. that is the importance. we are going t

but at the same time, merrick garland and the doj have to think about that we're coming into a number of different election seasons, not just the midterms, the 2024 election you could argue is already starting now with former president trump. so merrick garland has to consider doj's policy to not interfere with elections what does that mean? if he has to charge a crime, he has said he will do so without fear or favor. that may mean indicting a president sometime during a campaign, which arguably has already begun. not an enviable place for merrick garland as he weighs those issues and issues of presidential immunity which may or may not apply to the former president. and a number of other issues that make the path to indicting trump very difficult >> watching where this fbi search goes and if that will impact an announcement from former president trump about his future, danny, as always, great to have your insight especially at this hour, thank you. >>> meanwhile, a day after the scheduled end to china's largest-ever live-fire military exercises, they launched another set of drills in

and merrick garland doesn't understand. this is a typical lawyer that trump has bumped around over the years. some new york pa that he has had powers with. merrick garland is everything that donald trump isn't. he is the epitome of integrity, educated, civil. cool minded. and only moves when he is forced to. anybody who thinks that garland came in to be attorney general with the idea of rating mar-a-lago and going after donald trump doesn't know him. so i think he's been coy this week, got it done, did the press conference today. we will see what happens. but if this has something to do, which it looks like it does with trump bringing nuclear documents, anything that of a national security concern to mar-a-lago. refusing to give it up. we are dealing with a big, big time in history moment here. where the president of the united states is almost committing the kind of treason. by having it at a treason resort in florida. nuclear documents. >> do you agree carl? >> i don't think we're there yet. but i think what we know is th

also, merrick garland, keep in mind, he was very clear today. he was not doing, he was not talking about the ongoing investigation. what he was doing is explaining the justice department's reasoning. and that is something that he needed to do in order to basically combat the fact that trump and his allies were filling the void with information misinformation, and things that were outright untrue. and he did not want to follow the path of robert mueller. the former special counsel, who made no motions to correct the record at all. and who saw his entire investigation be sort of re-defined by trump. >> joyce, what does the law say about the mishandling of classified documents? because if these are of a nuclear nature, that's a whole other category. >> well it is and we are speculating steph, because we don't know precisely what's the facts are. but of course president trump who was outraged by what he perceived as hillary clinton's misconduct ultimately the fbi cleared her up knowingly possessing classified material. and no action was taken. but d

it never occurred to donald that somebody who looks like merrick garland and talks like merrick garland is actually a ninja. >> yeah. build on that point because you're talking about what he assesses. you know, americans watching this garland presser today, this might have been, and neal can weigh in if he sees it differently, i think it might have been the most high profile kind of high wire act this attorney general has had to walk yet. the jan 6 probe is very significant, but saying you're going after the people that raided the capitol is straightforward. this to people who might not be trump loyalists say, wait, what happened with the former president? i'm sure it will be on the news all over. what they saw, mary, was not someone who looked like they were dying for a fight or press coverage or wanting to be in partisan headlines. i think they saw someone very sober who looks like he has his act together. how does that fit into what you say donald trump may have misapprehended about this attorney general? >> well, again, he believed he had an open field. and one of the complicating f

they say merrick garland didn't even see it. now merrick garland comes out and says actually i did.uld have come out monday night after the president revealed the information and then you wouldn't have him in front of the cameras not answering questions from the press. there's a reason why merrick garland is at the top of list for republicans if they take back the house they want to investigate. talking about the schools, remember, domestic terrorists. talking about they did not do anything at the justice department to protect supreme court justices being attacked and judicial crisis network just put out a million dollars add talking about that. that's before this even happened and that just all happened today. so the last thing i'll say because in the feed block we're going to talk about the white house and i have a lot about that. i don't understand how a document can be this critical. unless it has -- you want the picture, you're saying if it has a picture of putin and trump making out. short of the nuclear codes being written on these documents in a lock behind closed doors, i j

merrick garland, that's where tax dollars are going? you see the massive trucks out there lined around. it was the optics, they thought donald trump would look like a common criminal but it backfired on them and the american people have seen what they have done and they are disgusted by this. he's got lot more explaining to do. >> sean: look at what they did to peter navarro, look at what they did to paul manafort, roger joining us tonight. this is their tactic how they want to harass, intimidate, send a message to everybody else don't mess with us. we are all powerful and almighty. the double standard, the dual system of justice couldn't be more clear than it is now. >> i don't question the integrity of the doj and the fbi, i criticize the other lack of integrity of merrick garland and christopher wray. merrick garland unwittingly and stupidly undermined his own argument when he said our standard practice is to use the least intrusive methods. if that's a subpoena. the fbi did that two months ago. they were counting on donald trump cha

merrick garland came out today and didn't clear any of that up. if anything, we have more questions now. the american people by and large , then they did a couple hours ago before he even came out and spoke. so what's interesting is to those two attorneys, two of which we've seen a lot on the air in various podcasts and television networks, including one and jesse show they were even allowed inside to sit out. that was what they need to greece in florida and they sat outside the eight, nine hours trying to get an understanding of what exactly is happening with the premise and predicate behind it. and i have to talk to eric on monday and i could not believe how cool and calm and cool and calculated was, how angry is , but almost saying, look, this is what i'm dealing with on a regular basis. but what i also found this i was watching the bbc and sky news. they can't make heads or tails . they're asking our reporters what's going on in america. and i kind of worry about that beyond this administration, beyond the past administration. do you i mean, i

merrick. merrick: first, i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly. where possible, it is standard practice to seek less inintrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken. kennedy: so why the hell didn't you do that? his statement now opening up a completely different can of worms and here's why, he personally approved this decision to seek a search warrant and does that mean this whole thing was his idea? only one person above him and that's the current president of the united states. did the president sign off on the paperwork and if not, then whose idea was it? the other issue, garland was president obama's supreme court nominee, remember that? he is president biden's ag. so he's seen as being very political and today he claimed he is completely impartial. malarkey. merrick: faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock of the justice depart

attorney general merrick garland did today. he spoke a little under five minutes here at main justice headquarters. what he did, charles, he put the ball back in the hands of the former president's legal team. now the department of justice is saying we want to unseal the search warrant so everybody can see what is inside and see the items taken. now it's up to the trump legal team to object and say let's be transparent and do so. charles, this is a rapidly-moving story as you know. something else that many want to see including myself, including you, people want to see this affidavit. the affidavit will be the reason that the judge authorized and signed off on that search warrant. we could find that as soon as monday. right now the judge is considering a motion from some organizations that have sued to make some documents public. so we could see that as soon as monday. as far as when the search warrant will be released right now, it's in the hands of the trump legal team. charles? >> charles: before you go a lot of speculation

if she's in moments with response to merrick garland. first, spin cycle crash, that's tonight's focus of tonight's "angle." can you imagine what president xi or putin or terrorists who wish to strike against america? this is the america that they use to fear. to speak i personally approve the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. faithful adherence to the rule of law is the bedrock principle of the justice department and of our democracy. upholding the rule of law means applying the law evenly, without fear, or favor. of under my watch, that's precisely what the justice department is doing. >> laura: doesn't he look like a guy who got a lot of wedgies in sixth grade? i'll be forever grateful for mitch mcconnell for keeping it off the court. he said a lot of nothing, changing no minds about the propriety of their raid and not a single one. what we witnessed in this week is a sham. it's a total embarrassment for america. putting trump on the vice of the current presidents fbi is what you would expect from russia's fsb, not a pr

when he wanted to do and this is merrick garland and you're the lawyer and i'm not, but merrick garland wanted to say if the former presidents attorneys agree. it was not just going to say i want to do this. so they're going to go to court. we have reporting this evening that says donald trump either hasn't decided or maybe deciding to fight this, but that was before the washington post story came out. so, i don't know in the end with donald trump's attorneys are going to decide to do. but his folks have spent much of the past week decrying the justice department, and now the justice department has given them an opportunity to put up here and say okay, we are happy to reese release it if you are. >> this is a bit of a game of chicken. wonder who is going to win. elie, lets you and i play out this chess game. the idea of you remove. he wanted everyone to know we're not the ones who said we are actually were there. you told everyone. now we are telling everyone we may have planted evidence or the things that happened but that did not happen, they say. now it's your move to try to say you

steve: we see a lot of different that's why merrick garland and christopher wray all authorized this raid on the former president with agent swooping and even ransacking milania trump's bedroom because nobody is above the law if there is evidence of violation of statutes then that does justify a search warrant as it did in the case of a former first lady with the missing e-mails. we know there is not a crime in her case because the former fbi director said so. >> there is evidence potential violations of the statutes regarding classified information handling. steve: and merrick garland says upholding means it evenly without fear or favor we remember the predawn raid on the clinton compound but no armed federal agents in the clinton driveway or cracking into her safety see what she is hiding. no ransacking of clinton's bedroom. why so relaxed about classified information? in the clinton case was the james comey statement in full. >> although there is evidence of potential violations regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is no reasonable prosecutor would bring

we have not heard from merrick garland yet. we have not heard from the fbi director christopher wray, appointed by former president trump. no question, though, in your mind, this went all the way to the top, all the way to merrick garland. >> reporter: no doubt. when you're talking about a search of the former president's home, his private residence, absolutely, all the senior members of the department of justice would have been apprised of it and would have signed off on it, up to merrick garland. >> you heard a lot, particularly republicans, but from some democrats, too, saying, we need to know something about this raid because it is so historic and unprecedented. let me ask you, though, would merrick garland, would christopher wray move forward with something like this if they weren't really looking for something significant here? they had to know about this backlash, about the role this will play in history. >> reporter: absolutely. we don't know exact little what they were looking for. and i don't think they're going to te

kudos to merrick garland.cause i've been questioning whether he had the stomach for this fight. yesterday, that was a gangster move. i say that in a positive way. m.g. is the o.g. he came out and did something i've never seen before. he put trump in a box. he is forcing him to either agree to releasing the documents he never wanted released, or to try to block it. either way, he looks bad. either way, merrick garland wins. >> so donald trump has said that, oh, sure, release them, but i think we still need to hear that initially from his attorney. that could change. let's bring into the conversation author and msnbc political analyst, annan, good to have you on this morning. >> good to be here. >> joe, the backdrop to the information we now so far, and i keep trying to back up, back up, back up, because we don't know what was in there yet. >> we don't know yet. >> but rhetoric surrounding all of this. >> terrible. >> it's got a lot of echoes of january 6th. >> oh, yeah, no doubt about it. and we're seeing the c

. >> all eyes are on merrick garland who they say knew about this. >> merrick garland almost certainly signed off on this, hard to determine a decision of this magnitude would be made without his knowledge and approval. >> brooke: the white house tells me it did not receive advance notice about the raid at mar-a-lago. >> carley: let's turn to kevin corke who has the latest from washington. >> kevin: the fbi raids the home of donald trump, mar-a-lago, with the approval of merrick garland and christopher wray. the former president said these are dark times as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago, in palm beach, florida, is under siege, occupied by fbi agents. nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the united states before. indeed. republicans on capitol hill incan desant. mike turner, i'm demanding immediate briefing by fbi director wray guarding the risk that rose to level of ordering raid on the residence of a former president. lindsey graham, time will tell regarding this most recent investigation. such an investigation of a former president this close to an election is beyond

kevin mccarthy, you have to say an outrageous attack on merrick garland.ce yourself when we take over. clear your calendar, we will investigate you. merrick garland is the most careful, judicious to a fault some would say attorney general in this case. >> it's -- your point about them not being able to comment is particularly true in a case involving national security and classified documents and potential counterintelligence issues. they are hamstrung. it's worth pointing out the context here as these republicans make these charges. the fbi was reeling from the fallout of the trump russia investigation where an fbi lawyer was prosecuted and had to admit to a felony and his career was over. other people were fired. there was controversy. there was an inspector general report. they are super careful when it comes to these matters at this point. christopher wray says we are trying to do the right thing in the right way. that sounds like boy scout talk, but people take it to heart. they saw what could happen if they weren't careful. we will see in the end wha

why won't merrick garland explain himself? well, today, we got answers to basically all of those questions. the justice department did ask trump for those documents. they even sent him a subpoena. an informant told them that trump did not hand over everything he promised to hand over and they searched his home as a matter of last resort and attorney general merrick garland is ready to show you the warm front signed by a federal judge authorizing the search as well as a list of what the fbi collected. the question now, what are we going to learn next? joining us is the former federal prosecutor barbara mcquade, barbara, there's so much going on tonight, and i want to start with your reaction, you have seen a lot in your life, in your career, but the breaking news from the "washington post" that some of the information that the justice department was searching for, the fbi, were nuclear documents. i'm not sure i have words to understand what has happened here. >> i think it's really stunning that that is the content of these doc

merrick garland is a guy who never once in his life has yelled hold my s beer.s a careful warrant. it wasth issued by a judge.ss it was done with all the review. they knew this would have those political impacts and it was done in a very careful scope and manner, and of course trump is going to lie about it. of course his people are going to lie about it. this also is a real sign that all the flirtation with ron desantis and ted cruz and anybody else who thought they were going to run t inz '24 wi fox, they're all back on board now with k trump, they're all bk in bed with him, and i think you're going to see that trump's going to try to lever this experience into his next pain into disrupting the country as much as he can. the schedule f idea, basically burning down the government and throwing it with little clones like steve bannon is extraordinarily dangerous. their relying on rhetoric and communications and narratives right now that are encouraging a base of people who have already demonstrated that they can be motivated toed violence without much effort. >>

and attorney general merrick garland making a surprise move. asking a federal court to unseal, which means make public, that search warrant and the property receipt that was given to trump's legal counsel that day. a source saying trump and his team are considering asking the court to block the doj motion and keep it out of the public's eye. i want to bring in cnn contributor june dean, former nixon white house counsel. good to see you. i am wondering what your reaction is to "the washington post" reporting. i mean, the idea that this is not just the category of classified documents, more broadly, but this is perhaps related to not just national security, but nuclear weapons? i mean, put that into perspective for us what this might mean. >> well, nuclear weapons and the classification of nuclear weapons are clearly restricted data and this is a hair on fire kind of problem. so i think what's happened, laura, as i have watched this story unfold, including the latest from "the post," is that the national archives learned early, a year or so ago,

check with the department of justice, no further comment from the doj after merrick garland's comments announced he was behind an order of the application the search warrant in mar-a-lago. this is the search and seizure warrant released today and the federal search and seizure warrant for mar-a-lago. i want to put up a graphic that shows you some of the highlights of what was confiscated by the fbi at the raid monday at mar-a-lago. four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, four sets of confidential documents, and executive grant of clemency to roger stone, one of the president's longtime associates unspecified binders of photos. we got this list right here, a receipt for property that explains other things like pictures, binders, some other boxes taken but what we don't have an we've been saying and all over again and can't say enough is we don't have the affidavit. it would be longer and a significant amount of more information. that's what we want to see because i would be the probable cause for why the fbi went to mar-a-lago in the first place. >> dana: davi

merrick garland seems to be absent without leave on this. i was surprised by his statement yesterday. he talked about one aspect outside of the documents with regard to his approval. he didn't swat down the suggestions this could be a pretext for january 6. he didn't address some of these other sort of procedural or scheduling issues. now, he is someone that is known not to be inclined to reveal information. but he's the attorney general of the united states that just ordered a raid on the former president's home and the very likely opponent of a current president. there's no way you can reproduce that in any past historical event. he's really an unknown territory. he has to do better than to simply trust us, we're the government. >> charles: thank you, team. that was fantastic. we appreciate it. shannon, congratulations. so we have been getting reaction from capitol hill on the raid and what comes next. lucas tomlinson has the latest from washington. lucas? >> charles, how republican whip steve scalise doubts the white house didn't know abo

they don't know what merrick garland was doing.o say, kayleigh and they can't say it. >> they are all over the map. it's interesting. i was asking a friend of mine, former colleague, you know, what's the media saying about this? occasionally i will tune in and see what cnn and the others are saying. and we couldn't really define it this time because they are clueless. the raid talking point you are exactly right. let me clue you in mainstream media, yeah, it's a raid. nine and a half to 12 hours in the president's home, through melania's closet with a ryder truck. you bring a guy who can open safes. it is a raid. and then the other talking point they are going to oh what does this mean for 2024, trump is back. this feels like 2016. oh no. it's all the electoral political implications. it's crazy. >> so, they went into melania's closet. that seems a little perverted but i don't know. what do i know about aides are? i mean, search warrants. they bring a safe cracker. they are there for almost, what, 12 hours? it seems a little invasi

>> there's three choices for merrick garland. they wanted the information sooner than they were allowed by trump and his lawyers or they had some political agenda or the third option is you raid that home because you have fear of destruction of evidence or that there may be violent individual that you need to use that sort of show of force. the thing is, we still don't know to this day, we don't know why a former president of the united states is subjected to a technique and a strategy that was outside the bounds of what we have seen historically by the department of justice. >> martha: that's absolutely right. we don't know. as we said many times, we don't have this affidavit, which would give us more meat on the bones in terms of why the judge approved this. when you look at this list, you've got executive grant of clemency for roger stone jr. information, the president of france. leather bound documents. why would they be taking binders of photos from the house? why would you take those? >> it all depends on the four corners o

merrick garland said he was seeking to have the search warrant and the list of violent —— items takenmp's home made public, something that will put the ball firmly back in mr trump's court because if he were to oppose that motion it would look like he has something to hide. there has been no real response from donald trump yet other than a few social media posts in which he has accused the fbi of going through the former first lady's clothes during their search but nothing engaging with the substance itself and merrick garland's main point, which far from an attack on the principles ofjustice, the search represented justice taking its true and rightful course. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines. more than 30 people have been hurt in an accident at a legoland theme park in southern germany. one person has serious injuries. a statement from the park says two rollercoaster trains collided with each other. an investigation into the cause of the collision has begun. police in the us state of ohio say they have shot dead a gunman who tried to break into an fbi office i

tonight i'm telling you that merrick garland owes more than this to the nation.edacted affidavit is better than no affidavit at all. >> is there a risk that the justice department, by trying to block the release of this affidavit, looks like they're trying to be too secretive? >> absolutely there's that risk. prosecutors also have to live in reality and it's impossible to separate politics and law here and i think the reality is it will look like there's a lack of transparency. >> laura: you bet it does. moment of candor there over at cnn. there's so many questions outstanding tonight, including whether president trump himself will ask that the court release the affidavit. to answer that, we're going to go right to his legal team, see where they stand. joining me now is christina bobb, attorney for president trump, who was on site for that raid. christina, thank you for joining us tonight. does president trump support or oppose the release of the affidavit? >> well, president trump has been very straightforward in that he supports all transparency through this pr

i criticize the utter lack of integrity and rectitude of merrick garland and christopher wray, merrick garlandk today unwittingly, stupidly undermined his own argument when he said our standard practice is use the leastet intrusive method. that's called a subpoenaif. and the fbi did that two monthst ago t. so they were counting on donald trump challenging it so that fo forould then be poised a raid. but trump capitulated. he gave them everything they wanted. so they probably sat back at w the doj and said, now what are we going to do? i well, they should have issued another subpoena if they wanted more documents. i suspect all of that is left out of the affidavit in support of the fbi warrant to search the premises. and i think they probably snookered this magistrate who ,i by the way, is not a regular federal district court judge. he's appointed by the district court to do the sort of grunt t work he doesn't havee the experience a real judge would have probably said, wait a minute, wait a minute, search the premises from a case with hillary clinton. why didn't exactly myselfidn' he wh

today merrick garland finally speaks out. the attorney general says he was the one who, quote, personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant on president trump's mar-a-lago compound as garland and trump are both asking to unseal the documents. the doj has until 3:00 p.m. today to release those documents as the washington post reports fbi agents were claiming to look for classified documents concerning nuclear weapons. all this drama proving even worse for the biden administration as now fox news poll. we are following the unprecedented stories all morning long. markets meanwhile this morning ending strong, another weekly win. dow industrials up 165, s&p 500 up 23 and nasdaq higher by 81 81 astech continues winning str. nasdaq ended in the red after buying spree. the dow industrials up 27 and nasdaq down 75 at 4:00 o'clock on wall street. more economic data out this morning at 8:30 a.m. eastern. both expected to falls%. fall 1%.the dax index higher byt now in asia stocks finished mostly higher, japan finishing bett

merrick garland and the fbi's record is this. they put me in leg irons, they want me in prison and they raided mar-a-largo, the treasure of mar-a-largo. in both cases, it was totally unnecessary. it's political partisan circus. the people of america i think by this -- we're act a week into into this now with president trump and i still have any trouble. what people want know, what do we do about this? for me, my mission of taking back trump's america book mission is to win the house of representatives back first from pelosi. because it all starts with them. all starts with that select committee, the legal weapons, violation of separation of powers. these are things i'm standing up for in court to preserve. we get that done and the other thing is to get trump back in the white house. folks, get focused on november. we have a big election on tuesday in wyoming that i think is going to be definitive as well. >> sean: and you would have turned yourself in to the fbi. the fbi could have walked a block away from your headquarters and a

here and thinking about merrick garland.ct that merrick garland's public aspect, his public demeanor, this kind of man, this legal scholar type, looks like a professor, to donald trump this, is a very boring, timid human being. and donald trump makes a assessment, this guy is not bold enough to come after me. and so donald trump can be surprised today that merrick garland sent the fbi raid into donald trump's home. >> absolutely. merrick garland is the epitome of the kind of man that donald is contemptuous of. so it never occurred to him that donald would have the intestinal fortitude to -- will not go after him but to do his job quite honestly and hold donald accountable. it also serves as a reminder that donald trump is a private citizen, and this may be the very first time in his life that he is not protected. is not protected by the office anymore, he is not protected by the bags anymore, not protected by his father anymore, so finally at long last he is in a position where he to can be served a search warrant by the fbi

and i think merrick garland understands that. take a long time but i'm looking to georgia, i'm looking to january 6th and now i'm looking to this classified materials grand jury to basically show us the beef. >>> andrew, what about you? >> so i agree with paul and lisa. let me add a couple things. first on a pessimistic note, i would keep my eye on the state investigations because although i do think that a federal investigation is going to lead to charges, i think merrick garland has the back bone to bring those cases as is necessary. if a republican president is elected, it is highly likely that those charges could be -- could end either by way of pardon or because the department is told to stand down. and maybe highly likely may be an overstatement. i could keep my eye no matter what on the state cases and i would add to paul's list of state cases not just georgia but i think the sleeper case here is the manhattan d.a.'s office. you know, i think that it isn't getting enough attention and there are a lot of telltale signs in t

merrick garland is a very, very careful cautious person. he is not someone who goes off in crazy directions on winds, and we have to remember a federal judge signed off on this with a legal search warrant, so the idea that this was done carelessly or recklessly, i think should have proper steps upon it. >> luke broadwater is always thank you so much for being with us. jennifer reuben is an opinion columnist for the washington post. her latest case is called the gop's crazed reaction to the search at trump's home shows its true colors. david rohde is an executive editor of the new yorker. com. his latest piece is called after the trump raid, silence is not an option for merrick garland. they both join us now on a reference both your pieces because i want to speak about both of them. david beginning with you because you argue that merrick garland needs to be more forthcoming about this investigation. quote, the best way for merrick garland to counter the former president's false narratives and to create public trust in the justice department

also breaking new memo from merrick garland and his office, they are sending stern reminder this night to staff policies that limit contact with members of congress, that would mean fbi members talking to members of congress as whistleblowers. this letter obviously convenient reminder from attorney general of the united states. question is, is he trying toil zooence whistleblowers? it looks like it at this hour. it looks like they are trying to pressure whistleblowers. democrats only like hear say whistleblowers? that sounding like intimidation from the a.g.'s office. do not silence them or intimidate them, this sounds like a threat. let me remind you about the policy of talking to congress or else what? you get fired for identifying corruption and abuse of power, when they should be applauded if true. last night top agent thibaut escorted out. he is pushing back against growing scrutiny of his conduct and joe biden claims to care about law and order he continues to ignore the two-tiered system of justice, corruption inside the fbi, the doj, his fbi, his doj. take a look. >> i'm oppose

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