is my immediate thought. do you think we haven t seen this as an overreaction? it s gotta be more than that, right? there was that very a statement about the even went into my safe, suggesting that he had something of value of safe but laura, i went twice to mar-a-lago to interview trump with his book along with peter baker, my coauthor and has been, and the second time we went to trump s private office in mar-a-lago, there were a lot of momentous and things from his time and office and still who knows wet was stuffed in their, but i was struck by the fact that he chose to hang a portrait of himself, a picture of himself and kim jong-un looking very, very chummy with each other on a wall. imagine that that is the thing you take away from your tenure at the white house. there were lots of other things that seemed like they had come straight from washington.
classified documents and were documents were kept. sources are also saying that boxes of items were actually taken during the search. and that documents were seized. trump is calling this a raid. and what he described as a large group of agents saying it was, quote, unannounced. which is what normally happens with search warrants, by the way. that they broke into a safe. he wasn t there, as they carried out the search. but i want to turn right away to cnn correspondent, randi kate, who s actually at palm beach county. also here with, us cnn s chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. can anyone being with you here, because look, a search on the former presidents home is absolutely extraordinary. and now we know it is about the handling of classified documents. what is happening right now? what is it all about? it certainly is remarkable. these events are unfolding in the way to the former president saying that they are and the state but it does seem to be a pretty huge escala
house to mar-a-lago. there are concerns as to what kind of information was their kind classified information was there. there is still big questions there as they carried out that. and trump is of course criticizing it and saying that kind of assault can only take place broken third with countries. america has become of those countries crept in a way saying that even, quote, broken in my safe. laura, you ll stop some reporting that saying this is the first time trump has not seen these investigators reading the. back in early june mar-a-lago. so this is where there are some backstory here. because part of what trump said his statement, he talked about cooperation and he says the word cooperation his his between the government, between investigators and between his attorney, what happened to this material we are told investigators want to visit the mar-a-lago property in june. back in early june. they want to talk about this material.
doing great and irreparable harm to my country. i believe you have made a concerted effort overtime to politicize the united states military. now, he never handed it in. he thought it was better to stay and fight from within. is it clear, susan, just how much really saw trump as a national security threat? absolutely. i think the language of that letter, when we first obtained it in the course of reporting for this book, it was really stunning. even though you had a sense already at milley and other senior pentagon officials throughout trump s tenure had been concerned about him. this just brings it to a much more visceral when you have the nation s top uniformed officer saying the president of the united states is a threat to the international order. the president of the united states is doing great and irreparable harm. he does not believe in some of the fundamental pillars of our system. he said essentially, you believe in many of the things
the cameras will one day turn off from this again, and the headlines won t necessarily shift. it will be painful in its own right. but we have a choice and how to follow this story. but the bigger choice will always be where we will go, and we must go as a nation from here. next, a big story tonight includes donald trump s home in florida searched by the fbi. authorities seizing boxes, accessing a safe and his office and spending hours inside. stay with us. your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. in three seconds, pam will decide. i m moving closer to the grandkids! wait. i got to sell the house! don t wait, just sell directly to opendoor.