former president. donald trump revealed the news last night saying fbi agents were at the mar-a-lago residence earlier in the day and cracked the safe. the fbi did not dispute it carried out a search warrant at the resort. the justice department and the fbi field offices declined to comment. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc the search was tied to allegedly classified information he took with him from the white house and trump said the search was politically motivate jd the former president was at trump tower in new york city. nbc news learned he will have dinner tonight with a group of republican house members. joining us now is nbc news senior national correspondent kerry sanders. ken delandian, barbara mcquaid and chuck rosenberg. ken, what more do we know about this search and the investigation? jose, sources are telling nbc news that this stemmed from a referral made by the national archivings to the justice department when they retrieved 15 boxes of presiden
journal branch to authorize a search warrant. so i think the word raid and kerry is right, it is a loaded word. it makes it sound lawless. fbi agents were legally present because the judge said they could be. chuck, the former president said they cracked his safe. is going through someone s safe common practice? well, think of it this way. if you have a search warrant for my house suspected of leading a stolen car ring, no, you can t look in the safe and the refrigerator. you won t find a stolen car there. on a document search you can look anywhere a document is stored or kept. a safe is a place to store
the e-mails are right at the center of that. we know that russia interfered with our elections. we know that russia and wikileaks were behind the hacking of democratic e-mails. the $64,000 question is were there any american citizens involved in that? and let me remind you that these things are conspiracies, and a conspiracy, you can join before it s hatched. you can join as it s being hatched, or you can join much later. as an example, you know, in a stolen car ring, you can lay the plans to do it, or you can join later and help steal cars, or you can come along later and bribe public officials to cover it up or commit perjury to protect the perpetrators. so in the case of the e-mail situation, the question here is were any people associated with
hand and the trump campaign on the other. the e-mails are right at the center of that. we know that russia interfered with our elections. we know that russia and wikileaks were behind the hacking of democratic e-mails. the $64,000 question is were there any american citizens involved in that? and let me remind you that these things are conspiracies, and a conspiracy, you can join before it s hatched. you can join as it s being hatched, or you can join much later. as an example, you know, in a stolen car ring, you can lay the plans to do it, or you can join later and help steal cars, or you can come along later and bribe public officials to cover it up or commit perjury to protect the perpetrators. so in the case of the e-mail