Garland says he asked to judge to unseal the warrant, joining US live as Bloomberg's marketing a cat Bloomberg National Politics reporter Mark This is unusual circumstance, first of the search warrant on a former president of the United States, and now the Attorney General coming out basically and saying, you lay your hands, don't lay any hands verbally on on my people. Right. It's very unusual for the Justice Department to speak about an ongoing investigation. The usually let
their court actions, uh, you know, speak for them. Um. But Marrick Garland I think was more or less forced into saying something because Donald Trump and you know, his Republican supporters were portraying that search at his Marilago resort as some kind of politically motivated, you know, attack on him that was unwarranted. So Marrick Garland essentially gave a press conference a statement today saying, you know, he didn't
take this decision lightly to uh. He said he personally agreed to uh seek the search warrant to look for the documents and records they're they're looking for at mar Lago. UH. And he defended his agents UH for UM doing their jobs essentially against the attacks from Trump and the Republicans, so that we all understand, he is bound to not release the contents of the warrant. That's why he's asked
the judge UM to open it. Donald Trump, though, is in possession of it and can release it an information that probably things in it that Trump doesn't want to make public. That's exactly righted. And in fact, Trump also has the ability to object to the unceiling of the search warrant if he wants. The judge gave Trump until
three o'clock Eastern tomorrow to object to the unseiling. So you know, the ball is kind of in Donald Trump's court now, and Merrick Garland is kind of calling his bluff that you know, this search of his mar Lago
home was unjustified. Yeah, and uh and this is as you say, uh, and we have about thirty set Mark, but responding to criticism both from Trump and from right wing commentators and the light correct right, I mean, their third opportuning this as overreached by the government or attacks from Democrats all bent on trying to keep Trump from running again. In the tea. All right, Mark, thank you so much for your time, really appreciate it. Mark Niquette's political national correspondent to Bloomberg