U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Thursday that the Justice Department has asked a federal court to unseal the warrant used to search former President Donald Trump’s Florida residence.

Garland, in his first public remarks since the search, reiterated that the Justice Department did not make any public statements on the search and it was the former president that went public with the info.

Garland also confirmed he personally approved the decision to seek a warrant for the search, a decision he said he did not take lightly.

Agents on Monday searched Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, which is also a private club, as part of a federal investigation into whether the former president took classified records from the White House to his Florida residence, people familiar with the matter said. It marked a dramatic escalation of law enforcement scrutiny of Trump, who faces an array of inquiries tied to his conduct in the waning days of his administration.

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