into his home and cracked open his safe in what he called a raid. now, this is an extraordinary development and remarkable escalation of the investigations surrounding the former president. trump has already weaponized the search and using to fund raise already. here is how his son eric is explaining it on fox. to have 30 fbi agents, actually more than that, descend on mar-a-lago, give absolutely, you know, no notice, go through the gate, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet, you know, they broke into a safe, he didn t even have anything in the safe. i mean, give me a break. the purpose of the raid from what they said was because national archives wanted to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. and my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. in fact the layer working on this was totally shocked, he said i have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden no notice, they send 20 cars an
relationship with these people and all of a sudden no notice, they send 20 cars and 30 agents. let s bring in law enforcement analyst, someone who has worked at the fbi. nice to see you. give us a sense of what this means, a search on the president s home, what must have happened behind the scenes to get to this point, what would it take to get a warrant like this? good morning. it isunprecedented, let s start with that. but the fbi is not operating autonomously here. an affidavit was drafted in cooperation with the department of justice when you are dealing with political figures, it is part of a requirement. moreover, a u.s. federal magistrate signed off on this warrant. and to be honest, it is not a raid, it is the execution of a search warrant. they are looking for very specific items detailed in that warrant. explain the search process. what we think they are looking for and how extensive these