investigators. for their part, they say trump s team will push the argument that he did not have classified information because he declassified it while still president. more now from jessica schneider in washington. reporter: new details about the fbi search of mar-a-lago are emerging as republican congressional leaders cry foul about the target and the timing. i know doing this 90 days before aen election reeks of politics. reporter: kevin mccarthy tweeting the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, warning about investigations if republicans take the house in november wri wri wri writing ag garland come and answer our questions about this action today which has never happened in american history. what was on the warrant, what were you really doing, what were you looking for, why not talk to president trump and have him give the information you are after? reporter: trump was in new york at trump tower when the search
emerging as republican congressional leaders cry foul about the target and the timing. i know doing this 90 days before an election reeks of politics. reporter: kevin mccarthy tweeting the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, warning about investigations if republicans take the house in november, writing attorney general garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. merrick garland, chris wray, come to the house judiciary committee this friday and answer our questions about this action today which has never happened in american history. what was on the warrant? what were you really doing? what were you looking for? why not talk to president trump and have him give the information you re after? reporter: trump was in new york at trump tower when the search began monday morning. his son eric said he alerted trump about what was unfolding in florida. the purpose of the raid from what they said is because the n
president s estate there at mar-a-lago. so all i know is what i m reading and hearing in the news. it s very interesting, of course, but not really within the committee s purview. has your january 6th select committee, congresswoman, shared any information about trump s handling of documents with the department of justice? i don t believe that we have a lot of information about classified documents. the focus of the committee are the events leading up to january 6th and all of the plot that occurred. the you know, if he stole documents and took them to mar-a-lago, that s really not within the scope of the january 6th committee per se. obviously, we would like to be cooperative in any way we could, but i think there are parallel investigations. reporter: i know our
collaboratively with them for months. in fact, the lawyer that has been working on this was totally shocked. i had such an amazing people with these people. all of the sudden on no notice they sent 20 cars and 30 agents? reporter: the national archives asked the justice department earlier this year to investigate trump s handling of white house records after the archives recovered 15 boxes of documents from mar-a-lago and discovered some of the presidential records had been torn up or contained classified information. sources tell cnn monday s search was focused on trump s office and personal quarters at mar-a-lago, and it included examining where records had been kept to make sure everything had previously been handed over to the archives. cnn has learned four federal investigators visited mar-a-lago in early june. sources say trump s attorneys met with the investigators and took them to the basement room where boxes of material were stored with the investigators later leaving. howe
we don t know. i think many people are in over their skis and have taken risk in coming down so clearly on one side or the other. good point. melanie zanona, the house republican leader kevin mccarthy, he is now publicly vowing to go after the attorney general of the united states, merrick garland, if the gop wins back the majority in the midterm elections coming up in november. what s your thought on that? yeah, kevin mccarthy is not being shy here. he has made crystal clear that they want to investigate the justice department over the fbi s actions here if republicans win back the majority. he tweeted last nigeght when republicans take back the house, we will conduct immediate oversight. attorney general merrick garland, preserve your documents and clear your calendar. i m also told this was discussed in a private house republican conference call this morning where a number of top republicans including jim jordan and mike turner vowed rigorous oversight and said they are going to