thanks so much. nice to see you. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. it is something that has never happened before. at least not like this. the fbi searches the home of a former president. so, why? why would a federal judge agree there was probable cause a crime had been committed? what exactly were agents looking for? what is so urgent that merrick garland would sign off on this, assuming he did? i m john berman here with brianna keilar. these are some of the questions we will try to answer this morning. admittedly, some of these questions don t yet have answers. this is what we know so far, early monday morning, federal agents executing a warrant searched donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. we are told this is part of the investigation into the handling of classified documents, taking them from the white house to mar-a-lago. mishandling classified documents, hiding or destroying them, if that is what happened, could absolutely be ag
engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b
democrats call it accountability. where do things stand right now and where do we go from here? our legal and political panels will break it down for us. tracking lawmakers reaction, laura ingle outside trump tower for the response from trump world. surrounding the stunning development. good evening. here is the latest about what we know at this hour about the fbi raid at mar-a-lago, beginning with former president trump. he was photographed leaving trump tower in new york city this afternoon after the rate of his province private residence inflorida. mr. trump left new york and was heading to his home in bedminster, new jersey. the reporting source tells fox news, the rate at mar-a-lago happened early this morning. fbi agents even brought a safe cracker and opened a relatively new safe at mar-a-lago. coworkers say the safe was new and nothing in it. fbi agents went through every single office, safe, and grab documents without going through them on the mar-a-lago property
and remembering olivia newton-john the iconic pop star beloved by generations of grease fans you re the one that i want announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt and good evening i m tom llamas in for lester tonight we begin with that breaking news involving donald trump. the former president saying in a statement just a short time ago that the fbi carried out an unannounced raid at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, calling it not necessary or appropriate. he also said the fbi broke into his safe. but moments ago he declined to comment to nbc news while leaving trump tower in new york city. a person familiar with the matter tells nbc news the fbi is not disputing that it carried out the search, and the new york times reporting tonight that the raid appears to be focused on materials mr. trump may have taken with him after he left the white house. let s get right to vaughn hillyard with the breaking details reporter: in an unprecedented move the f
kentucky reporting the suspect is in custody. we will track and find out the severity of the officers injuries tonight. also breaking tonight, a mass shooting on the streets of newark, new jersey, leaves nine injured including a child. the shots apparently coming from the vehicle outside a grocery store. we are following those details tonight. a young mother walking her 3-month-old baby in a stroller in new york city. and the supreme court on the final days of a historic term delivers a mixed bag for the biden administration, a blow to using the epa to carry out if the climate change strategy but a win on ending the trump-era remain in mexico policy. how will that affect what is happening already on the ground in border states? we will get reaction from texas lieutenant governor dan patrick. and a yoga teacher wanted for killing her romantic rival is in custody tonight, captured following six weeks on the run. we have a full report. we begin with president biden concluding hi