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Todd Blanche won't talk about the search of Rep.

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At a DOJ/FBI press conference in the Eastern District of Virginia, Todd Blanche is asked about Monday's search tied to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. He says searches are "covert," that this one "became overt because of the circumstances," and that a magistrate judge found it needed to happen on that day. He declines to say more, noting that the Congresswoman has spoken publicly about it and he hasn't.

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Who
Todd Blanche
Where
briefing - DOJ/FBI press conference in Norfolk, Virginia announcing the Louise L
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47 seconds, unedited within the cut
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So I want to understand how the Elon Musk's OVAR research, according to what we've talked about. Well, so we don't talk about searches. Searches are covert. They're not overt. And yes, this became overt because of the circumstances around the search on Monday. But that is a covert operation. It's a search warrant. And anytime you apply for a search warrant, one of the factors under the rules is why it needs to happen on a pursuant to a search warrant and not a subpoena and why it has to happen on that day and not some other day. And as the magistrate judge found there we needed to do it then. We were not our comment I don't know what you know the the Congresswoman has made multiple public comments about it. I haven't.

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