'A cloud over the investigation.' FBI searches home and office of former Trump advisor John Bolton

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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FBI agents spent hours searching the home and office of Trump’s former National Security Advisor, turned critic, John Bolton. Then, the DOJ releases the full Maxwell transcripts the same day the department gives Congress its first batch of Epstein files. Plus, the Trump administration reportedly informed the lawyers of Kilmar Abrego Garcia that he might be re-deported to Uganda within days just as he's released from federal custody. Jacob Soboroff hosts as Ryan Reilly, Chris O’Leary, Catherine Christian, Brandy Zadrozny, Raul Reyes, Christina Greer, Eddie Huang, and Isabella Brourman join The 11th Hour this Friday night.

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0:00.0	Good evening. I'm Jacob Soberoff in for Stephanie Rule. We will get to our nightcap in just a bit.
0:10.2	But first, it is day 215 of the second Trump administration. And today, the FBI searched the home of John Bolton, Donald Trump's former national security advisor. A source familiar tells NBC
0:22.7	news the search is part of a national security investigation in search of classified records.
0:28.3	My colleague Kelly O'Donnell has the latest.
0:31.6	A quiet suburban morning interrupted early over national secrets.
0:37.1	Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
0:39.4	turned up to execute a court-approved search warrant related to classified materials, according to
0:45.4	officials, carried out at the Bethesda Maryland home and the Washington, D.C. office of
0:51.6	John Bolton, a prominent Trump critic and former national security advisor
0:56.0	in term one. New tonight, the CIA director provided intelligence to the FBI used to obtain
1:03.0	the warrant, according to a person familiar. Bolton's wife, Gretchen, seen at home during the search.
1:10.0	Bolton was recently asked if he expected to be targeted.
1:13.7	I think it is a retribution presidency. I know nothing about it. I just saw it this morning.
1:18.4	But President Trump today said he first learned about the searches from television.
1:22.8	I purposely don't want to really get involved in it. I'm not a fan of John Boe. I thought it was a
1:27.5	sleazebag, actually. And he suffers major Trump derangement syndrome, but so do a lot of people,
1:34.3	and they're not being affected by anything we do. All right, it's worth noting that this comes
1:39.7	on the same day a congressional committee obtained some of the Epstein files and the Justice
1:44.7	Department released the transcripts of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche's interview with
1:49.4	Galane Maxwell.
1:50.3	We're going to get to that a little bit later in the show, but first let's bring in our
1:52.8	leadoff panel.
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