not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr
crazy because even if desantis would try to run now i m almost certain that trump is going to be the nominee in 2024. this isn t good for the party. others said that this is a great opportunity for the party to fund rays off of, that the president should even announce early because it is will likely galvanize republican voters in ways that the republicans have been trying to replicate, that they haven t been able to do so effectively without trump really being out there. without giving those voters the red meat, full, and so politically, doc, the answer and responses that i ve gotten from colleagues have varied. some folks are just not happy at all, and i know a lot of viewers who are watching the network saying desantis is worse than trump but from a republican perspective a lot people that desantis could bring some normalcy back, regardless of what think about his political ideology and many articulated to me they don t think that that matters now that this has occurred trump will po
not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to
he can release that whenever he wants. this is somebody who would be part of the administration. what would be the value with donald trump sharing with the public hey, this is what the warrant said and this is the information and why might he not have release that had yesterday when he had the opportunity and still released a statement complaining? well, i think the value for him is low because he s claiming that this is a political witch hunt when in fact what we re witnessing is really just legal proceedings. we re just seeing the legal process play out, so i think there s very little value to him because as you laid out so clearly what we have here is a member of federal law enforcement, the department of justice, swearing upped oath a federal crime was committed, there s probable cause of that. there s probable cause that evidence of that crime is at mar-a-lago and that independently a federal judge, a magistrate judge saying yes, i agree with you, go ahead and so i think it woul
point as any that they can think of. ben, one of the things i always get concerned about when we see messages getting amplified online is how much of it is from sort of authentic verified people that we know are real, and how much of it is bots? now, obviously if you re on the donald, if you re on some of these sort of right wing sites, maybe you re a human being but when it comes to twitter and facebook, we don t know if these people are real. do you get the sense that there could be some bot amplification of anger right now that s going on because of the search of trump s mar-a-lago location, or do you think this really is sort of authentic and it s not astroturf. it s a combo of both of these things. it would be stupid to heave this on the table. if your point is to rile people up and get them in the streets and angry enough to cause civil unrest, of course you would probably to get in on this, but this happened so quickly that most of this would be authentic.