know how this ends. breaking news courtesy of a brand new statement that just crossed from donald trump. his home in mar-a-lago is, quote, under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. stunning news overnight, the fbi raid on the home of the former president. search and seizure, the fbi descends on trump s mar-a-lago home. we have a breaking fox news alert. the fbi has raided former president trump s home in mar-a-lago. federal law enforcement authorities would have had to go to a judge and bring to that judge a request for a search warrant. we begin this hour with one word unprecedented. today we are in uncharted territory. the fbi search at mar-a-lago has no parallel in american history. that s all true, and that s all sinking in. the first ever search of the former president s home setting what is today something we didn t have until yesterday. a new legal precedent in america. that matters for the law. it s captivating many, many peopl
i was in the government i would call up counsel at msnbc, and we d have a conversation and they d either be produced voluntarily or you d give a subpoena and get the documents. there would be no question about the bona fides of the party on the other side. to produce a search warrant means there is a problem. the second thing is, to proceed in this way and this is, again, educated speculation i strongly suspect that the nature of the documents that the government believes are still there have to be highly sensitive classified information that involve true national security interests, because that s the kind of information that you could see merrick garland saying, you know what? we can t just keep playing, you know, patsy and go back and forth. we have to get these documents. let me fact check that with you on the screen, and then you have part three, the long arm. the washington post reporting some of the records taken by
yesterday during this time, where he apparently wrote out that statement, which broke the news in a way. he was seen leaving trump tower last night. and he was known for trying to outrun and outpace the law. we all know that. you re watching the news. you know that. donald trump tries to outrun the law figuratively, literally, however you want to put it in combination, and this story certainly has a long path. the hunt for the documents begins with the material donald trump took from washington down florida. he also faces separate civil and criminal probes in new york, washington, and georgia. a judge in florida approving a search for trump s home for these materials that have been taken from mar-a-lago and are going back to washington. phew. i ll tell you, right? that s a loft miles logged. this is still the law no matter how many places you try to go with all the stuff. it was kenny rogers who
present. none of this incredible unprecedented story leaked out in any way in advance. indeed, the first public disclosure about the search came from someone who can publicize it and explain it, donald trump himself. the fbi quietly, secretly, properly coordinated the operation as well as the particulars of what happens when a former president who has lawful secret service protection and other legal protections and retinue of guards and other things that are his under the law, as a former official. make him different than other potential people who are searched. so the fbi coordinated with the secret service who are on the site. that was a few hours before the search. and reports suggest trump basically knew before the biden white house, where staff heard the news, the new york times reports, like everyone else, on twitter, online, in the public news. donald trump was in new york
there s always additional documents and additional information they gather. eric s an idiot. to sit and listen to eric talk about, my dad had clippings and so on. listen, i promise you that the feds did not raid for the very first time the by the way, it s not the home. we have to all be clear about that. it s the property. he s not even supposed to be living there. but then again, nothing matters to him as it relates to the law. but you and i know any decent lawyer could say, doj is taking this assertively. we re counselling you to turn the stuff back over. they left with stuff accord to the reports we have. what does he say in this moment in he doesn t believe it s going get worse? new york he does not. he s such a narcissistic sociopath he does not believe he thinks he s going to beat all of this. he does not believe. documents do not belong to him. you re not permitted to destroy