with that, i want to bring in ryan riley, justice reporter for nbc news, chuck rosenberg, matt millernb joins us, former speci adviser on communications for the nsa and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. you've had a bit more time. tell us what else you've learned. >> i mean, i think it's significant especially the photos yout discussed last hou that show just how this was organized. i think a key part of this is essentially them not trusting the trump team because after they had that initial grand jury subpoena that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump lawyer, name is redacted in this latest filing, so weis don't know based on the filing who it was, but has been reported publicly about this trump lawyercl said there was n responsive documents left. lo and behold when they went and executed the search warrant there were allec these document left. so there's still information we don't know about how they got the source of that information. but the key

ryan riley, thank you very much for forwarding it.reported about what they searched and where they searched is indeed true, the 45 office and those store yj rooms, but not into any of the private areas of the club that are not having to do with the president of the united states. let -- let me ask you about the affidavit. there was confusion about whether that would be contained in the oun sealing of the documents and whether trump could have had access to it. that is not the case. >> that is correct. that is not the case. and the affidavit is this sworn statement that the agent prepares in coordination with the prosecution team and they rehearse their probable cause for the judge to evaluate. earlier, katy, david laughman characterized what would be in this search warrant affidavit as probable cause plus, with the government not wanting to rely just on the normal amount of probable cause. but going above and beyond. i think that is very likely what is contained in that affidavit. unfortunately for all of us, at least for now, that ap

if that, i want to bring in ryan riley, justice reporter for msnbc news, -- matt miller joins us, former special advisor on communications for the nsa, and former chief spokesperson for the department of justice. and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. you've had a bit more time, tell us what else we've learned. >> i mean, i think it's significant, especially those photos that you discussed in the last hour, that show just how this was organized. i think the key part of this is essentially, them not trusting the trump team. because after they had that initial grand jury subpoenaed that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump reporter. so we don't know based on the filing what it was, but it's been reported publicly they said there is no responsive documents left. and lo and behold, when they when it's executed the search warrant, there were all these documents left. there's still information, and we don't know how they got thi

but first, we want to dig into the mar-a-lago search warrant with ken dilanian and ryan riley and glenn kirshner and a msnbc legal analyst and javit ali, ken, let me start with you on the the nuts and bolts. the major question is now think thing has been met. the judge now considering the redactions. what are we expecting was actually redacted and in this warrant, a., and how much do you think the judge will be accepting of it? >> so that is the big question, yasmin. we could see that a lot was redacted because both the justice department and the judge agreed that there were many, many senseive things in this affidavit that could not be exposed, the names of witnesses and the identities of fbi agents investigative techniques and as they put it, a road map to the investigation. all of that is extremely senseive and will not be exposed. but we could imagine that there are other things that possibly that have already been reported that they could be unredacted and might shed some light on stuff. the back and forth between the trump side and the archives and the justice department over gett

joining me now is ryan riley. justice reporter for nbc news digital. ryan, thank you for being with us. what's the latest in the developments around both this raid and the investigation. >> it's only been a less than two weeks now since the search in mar-a-lago. it's amazing how many things we've seen spring up on social media and direct threats to the fbi in that -- there is that attack on the cincinnati field office of the fbi. we saw that threat to be arrested a man from pennsylvania. just last week. i point out the broader context here is that there is just been a lot of threats from a lot of january 6th offense in general. i was in court this week covering a trial. some of the officers who were testifying were actually followed out of the courtroom by someone as it turned out we learned was a participant on january 6th. he was harassing a couple of these officers, he try to confront one in the elevator. we followed another officer from the metropolitan police department down the street and it was asking him sort of evocative questions as he was bas

let's go back to ryan riley. ryan? >> yes. that is right. so i mean it is a little bit -- the horse got out of the barn a little bit on this one. and just to be clear, because i'm seeing hot takes on this on twitter, these clearly came from the trump orbit. there is no denying based on the sources of all where this is coming from and how doj has handled, doj reporters didn't get this. this is not coming to doj reporters. it is people more familiar in the trump world. if you look at sources here. so doj is really played this by the book and they then at the last minute decide to throw out all precautions and the steps to make sure they're following the books to leak this out at the last minute before it is unsealed. this came from trump world, full stop. so let's just throw that idea out and that sort of seems to be getting out there, that doj for some reason after being so careful this week, just then at the last minute just decided to throw everything out there and violate these rules that they had been talking about all weekend. in fact, i

i want to bring in nbc news capitol hill correspondent alley vitally and justice reporter ryan riley.the militia arrest. a couple things stood out about the charges, and its leader. >> that's right. there were three arrests that happened in florida and one in vermont and one in kentucky involving this b squad. b squad is a reference to, essentially a b plan, meaning that there were individuals who were planning essentially to what would happen if trump would stay in power, this would be their b plan, to help him retain power. what's remarkable about this, this was organized by a former candidate for the gop nomination, house nomination, in florida who had been running for several months and also that he organized an entire block of hotels in d.c. on january 6th. they -- the fbi affidavit states that more than 40 people were staying in this block of hotels who were all part of this b squad so to speak, the number of individuals who were charged in this case are five and were all involved at the tunnel where some more -- some of the most egregious violence we saw on january 6th took pla

joining us now, just reporter ryan riley.ing those stark to hear it from the mouth of an officer. as i just said there was an attack on a field office and calls for confrontation, let's put it that way, to be mild about it from senior members of the united states senate, not just with the fbi, but with the irs, saying there are 80,000 agents with ar-15s coming for small business owners and they've raised the stakes that violence is obviously something that people are concerned about. >> yeah, that is right. they're really living the front line implications of this rhetoric that we've seen floating around about the fbi. i think there have been a number of victim pact statements and in some of the january 6 cases so far. but this one just really stuck out with me because of how stark it made this out and it also referenced specifically the raid on mar-a-lago at the very end and how that rhetoric he was concerned about. the cases against joshua pruitt, talked about the impact on their families and one of them talked about coming

we begin with nbc news justice reporter, ryan riley. , what do authorities know about the incident? >> so this is an individual with a nail gun based on his posts on social media. he basically tried to attack the office with a nail gun and then was later killed. it's not clear how long it took for him. he was apparently wounded at one point and might have bled out. what i have learned from other sources who are close to the community that has been working on these january 6th investigations, he was on the grounds of the capitol on january 6th. there's no indication that he went inside the building but we do know based on his own public pronouncements as well as from what exclusive found was he was on the grounds of the capitol that day. >> right. and that gives information back ground on his profile, his activities. again, authorities, journalists not yet able to directly draw a link. indeed, as i think viewers know from following these often tragic breaking news incidents, it can take a long time for authorities to develop with confiden

joining us is peter baker and ryan riley. ryan you've been poring through this document that came in just after midnight last night, 36 pages in all. it's a response to trump's request for a special master. they said here are some of the receipts, particularly with that photograph. >> that's right. to me, one of the most interesting things that filled in more of the details about what happened in june. as you laid out, there were 15 boxes that were turned over, 14 of which of those boxes had classified information in them. after that grand jury subpoena was issued in late may and executed in early june, you had a situation where there were a number of documents turned over to the government. that's what we learned more details about last night on top of all this other information, was that there were 17 documents in there that were marked top secret, 38 unique documents that bore classification markings. that's an interesting component of this because after in response to this grand jury subpoena trump officials turned over a

for more, let's bring in ryan riley and melissa murray. t's the latest on this filing deadline today? do you know if they filed already or are we still waiting to see what they are filing? >> they have not yet, but i expect later this afternoon. i expect they are looking at a longer filing. their normal page and they have asked to up that because there's such complicated legal issues at play. we and expect a lengthy ruling. that's how the doj want to hand thl. they want to speak through the court process so we can look to the filings opposed to donald trump, who we have seen mostly speak through social media. so that's basically what we have at both ends. the d jorks through the lengthy legal filings, which give us new nuggets and trump making these attacks over social media. >> you're basically hitting refresh every few seconds. >> correct. >> melissa, thank you for being with us. given that the initial review is now complete, the justice department arguing the trump request for special master came too late. do you agree that they have alr

michael steele, and ryan riley thank you so much. still to come, the fbi does its job and the right calls for civil war. congressman eric swalwell and what he thinks about his colleague having his cell phone seized. that's next. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's worth. visit coventrydirect.com to find out if your policy qualifies. or call the number on your screen. coventry direct, redefining insurance. in the 24 hours since the fbi arrived at mar-a-lago, we've seen an angry, sometimes and even angry reaction from the right. our next guest, former member of congress an impeachment manager, has taken a time to respond to some of his colleagues. like house minori

with that, i want to bring in ryan riley, justice reporter for nbc news, chuck rosenberg, matt millernbjoins us, former speci adviser on communications for the nsa and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. you've had a bit m

joining me now, justice reporter ryan riley and nbc investigative correspondent. also, the deputy national editor at the "washington post" and an msnbc political analyst. also, andrew wiceman, legal analyst, he was a senior member of the mueller investigation. so tom, looking at this argument that the doj is making, disclosure at this juncture supporting probable cause would by contrast cause significant and irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. they also add, there is highly sensitive information about witnesses that could derail not just this investigation but other investigations. and also, the affidavit would serve as a road map to the government's ongoing investigation. i know that doj speaks through court filings. what is this one telling you? >> yeah. i think it is a couple of thing. some of what they've put in there would be boilerplate for any sort of search warrant effort to unseal a search warrant affidavit. they talk about the threat to national security involved in this investigation. i think the fact that they talk about how it c

i want to bring in ryan riley, and former fbi general counsel andrew weissmann. ificance about the idea that passports may have been taken, what that may say to you about where this case goes? and what is next as it relates to this search at mar-a-lago? >> yeah, i want to be careful about this one, because that's something we've only heard from the president so far, but i think andrew might be best to weigh in on the potential significance of that there. but it is significant, just as a fact that this idea that the president's passports were taken by the fbi. i think there's obviously different interests on capitol hill in terms of getting more information about the damage assessment, and then the communication side. i would point out that this has been a very by the book investigation in terms of the fbi side. remember that there was that initial meeting with trump in early june after the subpoena in late may, and all of the while that information held. the fact that the former president of the united states was subpoenaed by a grand jury held for several months.

i want to start with nbc news justice reporter ryan riley and former prosecutor and msnbc legal analyst carole lamm. ryan, i want to come to you with some of the questions hanging over this filing, some of the key questions our team has identified. is it going to convince a judge not to appoint a special master which is what the department of justice wants. will the filing give us new clues about the investigation itself, things we did not know more broadly? will the doj challenge the judge's jurisdiction here, the one who said, she said this weekend, judge cannon, she was inclined to go ahead and appoint the special master which raised eyebrows in the legal world. to you on this. >> the investigation itself we could see bread crumbs. the justice department has chosen to speak through the file sogs we could see some new information. i think the biggest argument looming over this is whether or not the special master is necessary because the doj is going to want to make sure that this is going to be tight to just -- in terms of attorney/client privilege documents and going to say, essenti

also, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley on all thing january 6th. ashley parker, senior correspondent at the "washington post," and an msnbc political analyst, ashley, as you know, has been reporting on donald trump since his first campaign all the way back in 2015. and an dry wiceman, a fellow mueller prosecutor in the ties to russia, and an msnbc legal analyst. everybody, thank you. andrew, i want to start with you since you are the expert here. you've had about a day to digest this. i want to set expectations. what can we say about this search as of right now? >> i think there are a few things that we do know. first, a federal judge clearly found that there was probable cause of a crime and there would be probable cause that the evidence of that crime would be at mar-a-lago. those are the prerequisites for a search warrant. second, i think it is fair to assume that merrick garland asked people within the justice department, why do you need to do this by a search warrant? why can't we issue a subpoena? there are two different ways to get documents

according to a new report from nbc ws, ben collins and ryan riley, users on far right social media sites and messaging boards responded to news of the fbi search by agitating forcil war. users on pro-trump forums like the donald urged immediate violence asking questions like when does the shootings start? and calling on trump to summon militias. users shared a post of the proud boys telegram adding that the fbi is biden's gestapo and civil war is imminent. >> users of pro-trump extremist forrums to stage a rally outside of the home. one far right youtube star with over 5 million followers wrote on twitter, tomorrow is war. sleep well. all of that alone is use for concern, but it is increasingly clear that donald trump intends to keep fanning these flames. politico's meredith mcgraw reports today, donald trump's team and allies are moving swiftly to draw political benefit from unannounced search by fbi agents at the former president's mar-a-lago home on monday including keeping tabs of republicans who aren't in their view sufficiently rushing to his defense, end quote. one person close to

joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, our senior national political reporter mark caputo, josh dossey, political reporter for "the washington post," and lisa ruben, an msnbc legal analyst. ryan, i want to begin with you. this document posted by the judge this morning, walk us through the reasoning and what that means. >> yeah, he laid out a lot of what he said in court last week. i think one of the big things i really notice about it, which isn't surprising coming from a judge who signed the actual search warrant and said this is legit knowing the stakes of this investigation, but reconfirms again there's a good basis for this. the information the fbi provided was reliable, that he was essentially standing by his decision to authorize this -- what he notes is an unprecedented and historic search of the president's estate in mar-a-lago. so, i think what you can take away from this is he's very competent if this were to be public, that he's standing by that decision, that this is a good decision that was based on the facts that were laid out to him and he did find probable

joining us now to discuss this, the hardest working man in the business, nbc news justice reporter ryan rileyright, what are we going to learn from the affidavit's release today? will we learn nothing at all? >> it's possible, but i think that, you know, there's a lot of agreement between the judge essentially and the government on what is actually going to come out now at this stage and that's why we will get this release. there was a chance that they were not going to be on the same page but i think that they are. so i think what we're going to see is certainly redactions of anything that's going to be relevant to potentially identifying any individuals who cooperated with the investigation, or any members of law enforcement who potentially were involved in the investigation. they essentially don't want to give donald trump a road map, but i do think we can learn some new things here, i think what is public right now is that there was a lot of back and forth with the national archives and the trump team about this, and that they had been working with them over the course of more than a year

joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley. thanks for being with us this morning. let's go through these two, two of many possible defenses that president trump's team has been offering. one, the idea that people take homework all the time. and that this stuff was already declassified. we just heard from john bolton suggesting that wasn't the case. and we also have now heard that they believe, they've put out that that all of the classified material had already been turned over. we learned that is not the case either. what exactly are they trying to say. >> all of this is a little bit of a distraction because he is not supposed to have any of these documents to begin, with right, regardless of the classification status. he is not supposed to have control over them and in the hands of the national archives, and the national archives is supposed to have access to them and a place where he can access most of the nonclassified information, on an ongoing basis, and -- i don't think there is in this case. there's, that is basically supposed to have command and control of

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and on that note, joining me now is nbc news justice reporter ryan riley on that letter from the national archives and what it tells us, msnbc legal analyst lisa rubin on donald trump's motion for a special master. and political investigative reporter for "the washington post" who has broken more stories on donald trump and his orbit than i can count. okay. ryan, this letter from the national archives, which they decided to post themselves, actually told us quite a bit of information. >> it really did and it is remarkable that the trump team was trying to get this out in some sort of fashion because it was exculpatory in some way. it is not exculpatory in any way and shows us several steps that the national archives, the fbi went through to try to head off what ultimately we went to now all the way in august. i mean, the back story on this, which "the washington post" has been reporting about for a long time as well i note is that they were trying to get a lot of these records for a year plus. this was all the way back in 2021 and then finally these documents in january that were returned

. >> let's dig into this with ryan riley and ali vitali, along with glen kushner, a former prosecutor, and robert gibbs, press secretary from the obama white house. "the washington post" is reporting that the filter team has already gone through these documents and taken out what was lawyer/client privilege. >> that's all they should have to go through. @ job should be done for them. the doj did go through this very quickly over the course of essentially two or three weeks. that's according to the latest filing this morning from doj. it said that they were able to complete this audit of the information and find anything that was attorney-client privilege and set this aside. they did this job that a special master would do. we're going to see the trump team arguing that the special master should do more than just attorney-client privilege documents. they are going to argue that executive privilege should be applied for whatever trump's view of that's in the hands of the current president. >> there's plenty of precedent on that. even before this hearing, though, the do jux just that unu

. >> i want to bring in nbc news justice correspondent ryan riley outside the courtroom, senior reporterr. in the case, the role that sergeant begunle plays in the trial here. >> that's right. sergeant gonell is at the center, one of the injuries sustained at the hands allegedly of kyle fitzsimmons. video shows him charging the sergeant, he held the shield up showing how he was trying to protect himself and in the tunnel why that was an essential part of this entire operation, why that was so important to keep that tunnel protected because there's a lot of the exits that members of congress were using to evacuate and some of the secret hideaways they have behind the door which, of course, everyone sees on television during the inauguration. he talked about how this idea that if they had gotten through that tunnel there would have been a blood bath inside because they would have come into contact directly with the rioters. really compelling and emotional testimony from sergeant gonell here who, of course, his career is going to be cut short because of the injuries he sustained on january

our thanks to ryan riley, nbc news justice reporter for giving us the latest.ments away, i mean this week with george conway about all of the blast are coming from trump's legal team regarding the mar-a-lago search, and why they have yet to take action. breaking overnight, the daughter of the putin ally killed when her car exploded near moscow. this according to russia's main investigative authority. plus, there are signs of a new ukrainian defense of this morning, with drones hitting russians boxy headquarters in crimea. for more on all of this we turn to nbc news correspondent josh lederman in dnipro, ukraine. >> katie,, russia's investigative committee has opened a murder investigation today into the death of the daughter of alexander duggan, who is a close ally of president putin, who is believed to have helped shape his views on key matters, including the war in ukraine. there is no indication at this point that her death is all connected to the war in ukraine. and in fact adviser to zelenskyy this morning saying that ukraine had nothing to do without. wou

if that, i want to bring in ryan riley, justice reporter for msnbc news, -- chuck rosenberg, matt miller joins us, former special advisor on communications for the nsa, and former chief spokesperson for the department of justice. and jeff mason, white house correspondent for reuters. ryan, you had the very difficult challenge of speaking to us moments after this document dropped. you've had a bit more time, tell us what else we've learned. >> i mean, i think it's significant, especially in those photos that you discussed in the last hour, that show just how this was organized. i think the key part of this is essentially, them not trusting the trump team. because after they had that initial grand jury subpoenaed that was delivered, you had this filing that was signed by a trump reporter. so we don't know based on the filing what it was, but it's been reported publicly they said there is no responsive documents left. and lo and behold, when they when it's executed the search warrant, there were all these documents left. there's still information, and we don't know how they got this horse t

if that, i want to bring in ryan riley, justice

counterintelligence agent who also worked on the mueller investigation and my colleague nbc news justice reporter ryan rileytell me your top line observations. >> essentially it lays out a lot of what was redacted and we know it was a heavily redacted form of this before and it lays out the basis. it does seem to be making what amounts to a defense argument for trump in a lot of these cases. there's one line in here regarding the line where this was comey telling the president that he hoped that he could let this go, and they actually write in here that there was not -- it was not directing a, quote, clearly directed particular action in the investigation and comey did not react at the time as though he had received the direct order from the president. it's just overall it seems a pretty defensive mechanism and remember, these were two top officials from the trump administration who were making this case, but they were essentially making the case for what barr had determined which was that he was not going to charge the president. the other line -- the other argument that sticks out here is just this idea t

against pat riley in a race against -- many are expecting to be on a test around the democrats messaging around abortion and abortion impact on the public in candidates -- heading into november. pat ryan -- with yard side like this one that says choices on the ballot. like i said, there is a time to get into tonight. maybe even -- steve kornacki is getting the first results from new york. my friend. >> alex, yes, we're getting the quickly here. in that special, action -- we have a ton right now in the 12th district. -- each in the house for 30 years. both elected in 1992. pitted against each other. you can see -- with a lot of votes -- a 2 to 1 advantage here for maloney. we're looking at nearly 30,000 votes, here they've been reported out in this district again. -- for folks in omaha, i'm -- he's represented the upper west side -- maloney has represented the upper east side of manhattan for the last 30 years. the two sides were merged in the district. there's also a -- who would run against maloney a couple years ago. [inaudible] they suggested nadler might be pulling ahead. that's what we're seeing in the earlier -- i say, early with this a substantial amount of votes to begin here