If Trump kept information about nuclear weapons, it would be a big deal.
The DOJ was pushed to reveal more about the Mar-a-Lago raid.
Not all nuclear information is classified according to one lawmaker.
Despite new reports that Donald Trump took classified documents from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago residence, Republicans continued to question why the FBI raided the private home of a former president.
Some GOP lawmakers are concerned about the new development.
McCaul said that he was still waiting to see more information about the case, including the affidavit that investigators filed to obtain the search warrant. At this stage of an investigation, federal prosecutors do not usually release such information.
The Texas lawmaker told Insider on Friday that the US' nuclear arsenal is in its own place, even though some information about it is classified. I don't have all the information I need. They didn't work it out where he could return it. You don't like seeing a former president have a search warrant.
Turner said at a news conference on Friday that it depends on what the nuclear information is.
He said his panel deals with concerns about the proper handling of classified information. He said that Attorney General Garland had a number of options besides issuing a search warrant at Mar-a-Lago.
On Thursday night, The Washington Post reported that "classified documents related to nuclear weapons" were one of the things FBI agents were looking for when they executed a search warrant at Trump's Palm Beach resort. In a statement on Friday, Trump didn't deny the report.
According to other Republicans on the intelligence panel, the onus was on Garland to tell lawmakers more about why there were national security concerns about the documents that were stored at Mar-a-Lago.
Was it a nuclear question? Maybe it was aliens. The point was made by Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah during the news conference. We are asking them to tell us. The presumption is that it is political until they tell us.
Even though some of Trump's biggest critics within the party condemned the search, the initial news about it helped unify the GOP. The vice president has a strained relationship with the president.
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The Trump loyalists within the party went further. The senator from Kentucky speculated that agents may have planted evidence in the material they recovered from Mar-a-Lago. The congressman called for the FBI to be defunded.
Some lawmakers clarify that their questions are mostly with top officials and not agents on the ground.
"I want to be very clear, the rank and file members of the FBI and our Department of Justice, they are brave men and women who do their job every single day," Trent Kelly said during a news conference. The leadership of the FBI and Department of Justice have been politicized.
Kelly said that the only way to calm the tension caused by the raid is to be more transparent about why investigators took such an aggressive step. GOP members of the Intelligence Committee called for Garland to reveal more about why the raid was done.
Stewart told Christopher that he needed to assure the American people that he was working for all of them. If you did what you did this week, tell the American people why.
Garland confirmed on Thursday that he personally signed off on the raid.
The current FBI director was appointed by the president. Senate Democrats were the only ones to oppose the confirmation. During the "Bridgegate" scandal, Wray defended Chris Christie, who went on to run for president.
Garland told reporters that agents and DOJ employees werepatriotic public servants. On Friday, he added his own defense.
"Unfounded attacks on the integrity of the FBI erode respect for the rule of law and are a grave disservice to the men and women who sacrifice so much to protect others."
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