also ahead for you, tent city, sleeping on the streets, where leaders are making homelessness a crime, but are their tactics only complicating the problem? welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start in our politics lead. and strong reaction to the justice department s historic move. a search warrant executed on the home of a former president. taking boxes of items from donald trump s mar-a-lago home, a source tells cnn. the warrant escalates the justice department s investigation into his handling of presidential documents, including some classified material. with many republicans today questioning why the fbi executed this warrant now. at the time, trump himself was in new york, where a single photo outside trump tower today captures the mixed reaction. look at this. one group with a large sign that reads, arrest trump. while another group carried a flag reading trump 24, save america. on paper, trump blasted the search saying in a statement, ag
donald trump, it can happen to any one of you. if he can be treated this badly as a former president of the united states, you can be treated this badly too. and this is kind of the broad which is a ridiculous argument. do we have fears around this table that the fbi is there are people in this country, but they have always believed that. they have always believed, but this feeds into the narrative, the government is coming after me. i want to ask you on that note, is there anything doj should say or do, any steps they should take to that could remove the specter of politicization? stick to protocol. that s interesting. that s what phil mudd said. james comey violated that, 11 days before the election, smeared hillary clinton. i don t want anyone to do that to donald trump either. that s why they re an easy target, because they can t answer the charges. thank you all, great discussion. and this hour, we re also getting new details on the
on the former president s home. this is unprecedented. and in history, we have never seen two members of a president s administration order a raid on the president s political rival, his former opponent and perhaps potential opponent. certainly, whatever they re searching for must rise to the level of national security threat for the director to have ordered a raid on his home. we asked in in addition, we want to see, this is reportedly about the archivist sending over a criminal referral. we want to see what that is. we also want to see what christopher wray filed in court, what he said to the court he was going to find there, and an inventory of what they found. we have been told in reports that even personal materials of the president were taken. what were they looking for, what did they find, and what did they tell the court they were looking for? there s still a lot we re hoping to learn. if republicans win the majority in the midterms.
election. trump s former secretary of state mike pompeo also met with january 6th investigators today. the panel has shown particular interest in talking to former cabinet members about conversations they might have had about invoking the 25th amendment. all of this comes amid the political fallout from the fbi search at trump s mar-a-lago home. let s discuss, and boy, is there a lot to discuss today. where to even start? i m going to start with the republican here at the table. the outrage came quickly. from republicans in the wake of the fbi search at mar-a-lago. but a few voices haven t have been absence. it s really interesting. you have the minority leader, mitch mcconnell, staying quiet at last check, saying he wanted to focus on the flooding in kentucky just recently. senators roy blunt, john thune, they haven t said anything about this. you have a lot of people in the republican side, i just interviewed one, congressman turner, outraged about this or conveying outrage, but so
what would oversight look like? well, the american public are going to require, obviously, a review here. you can t just have two men who are in the biden administration go after the president s political rival and not have the type of scrutiny that is going to be necessary here. we need to make certain that appropriate laws were followed. we need to make certain that these two gentlemen are held to oversight, and the american public wants to know. we obviously have two different standards here where hillary clinton i want to stop you hold on. we have two standards where we have hillary clinton with her own computer system and classified information on it being given a subpoena and the ability to go through that server to see whether or not it s personal material or official material. and this president, president, not a secretary of state, being raided. clearly two different standards and we want to know why. hold on a second ethorx ebecause when it comes to secretary clin