documents. just to show you how serious, the subsection of the espionage act that is most the criminalized part says this. obtaining information respecting the national defense by someone with the intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the united states or to the advantage of any foreign nation. so you know, you re getting to really serious possibilities here. but what we don t know is the how you get there and this timeline that you just talked about doesn t add up. there was cooperation. there was a subpoena. then there s not. there s a lack of follow up and then there s a search warrant august 5 and then they wait a number of days before they do this search or raid or whatever you want to call it. there s a lot that we don t know. the seriousness of the whole thing is real. charles: yeah, that search warrant had a two-week expiration date on it. i m looking at the three parts that you just describe.
charles: thanks, alex. special report anchor bret baier is with us. was the raid warranted or not? and a police update is imminent on the staffing attack on salman rushdie. a live report coming up. so i climbed into the cab, and then i settled down inside i ve been everywhere, man i ve been everywhere, man of travel i ve had my share, man i ve been everywhere
on what they re claiming it is, which is these classified documents. and if in the course of searching those areas that they come across evidence that helps the january 6 allegations, they can in fact use that in the search was executed properly. i don t think we ll get an answer to that in terms of is this a pretext. i m sure they hope they come across other information is helpful. this warrant signed off by the judge does allege a crime that is not related to january 6. again, this is very political. it s incredibly political. merrick garland did nothing to quell any concerns that this is some unique justification for doing this to a former president. i go back to my point that any comparison to other government individuals, even at the highest levels, possessing classified information is not comparable to the president or former president of the united states. charles: jonathan, yesterday there were reports that the ag
from capitol hill on the raid and what comes next. lucas tomlinson has the latest from washington. lucas? charles, how republican whip steve scalise doubts the white house didn t know about the raid. merrick garland said he knew about it in advance and signed off. did president biden know about it? he won t answer that question. that breeds distrust, a lot of questions about who is really calling the shots here. rick scott written to the attorney general and the fbi earlier today. the american people are justifiably alarmed by the conduct of your agencies. this alarm has arisen because of the raid at the resident be of a former president and potential future political opponent of the sitting president and because of the lack transparency of you and the biden administration. nancy pelosi said this about the
then it has more ant concealment removal or mutilation of government documents. all three different statutes outlined here. they have real criminal implications. if you were convicted under these statutes, some of them three years in jail, 20 years in jail. these are serious allegations. they are the justifications for the warrant. if the government decides to move forward with some case, we re not going to know what that is based on. these are real federal statutes with real criminal penalties. charles: of course, i m not sure what the binders, the photos, the handwritten notes from the president of france. jonathan, there is a report from the washington post talking about nuclear materials, nuclear information. the whole thing is now become just a wild game of speculation.