house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th
and in the horrors of it is, even 70 years later it is still as painful to think about what happened to emmett till. i am not surprised that the grand jury did not come back with an indictment for caroline brian. we know that there s been efforts over the last 10 to 15 years to have the case, you know, reopened and to have it re-investigated and to have charges brought against carolyn bryant donham. but every time that there has been a real investigation of the facts of this case, the outcome has been the same. there s been a determination that there is just not enough evidence to charge even though we know that there is this alleged memoir were carolyn bryant donham apparently recanted her statement about what emmett till did. but even with that meant more being out in the public sphere, no district attorney has been willing to move forward with charges against her. we also learned back in june that there was an unserved warrant for her arrest that was
documents or, as you said, the broader january six investigation. it seems to me it s probably the former. i just don t think they re quite there yet on the january six investigation in terms of search warrants into the former president. but, the thing that i have learned doing espionage cases is that if there are classified documents out there, that are not in the proper place, not being protected, not in the possession of someone who was supposed to be in the government will be intent on getting the back. that is our top priority. if they came to the government s attention to whatever source then the 15 boxes they issued in january was not the end of the story. and there were more material that needed to be retrieved. that would ve been very important to them. if they decided that trump and his folks were not being forthcoming with them, when i handing over these documents, there was this whole run around with respect to the meeting with the government. they would ve taken action a
investigate wrongdoing from former justice department officials. scott perry is obviously not one of those. but his interaction with jeffrey clark might be why this is of interest. here is a part of what scott perry had to say about this today. he said, i am outraged so not surprised at the fbi, under the investigation of macron s doj would seize the phone of a sitting member of congress. my phone contains info of a legislative and political activities. and personal private discussions of my wife, family, constituents, friends. none of this is the government business we should note that we are told that his phone was damaged and that it was returned to him and that was pretty clear that investigators were going to have to go to a court and get a second warrant in order to actually be able to look at the contents of the phone which exist, they are taking precautions to make sure that they are only looking for things relevant to their investigation, not just pouring over the entire con
i just wonder, think about the politics of this. the idea of the combination of additional criminal pros are happening in the january six committee everything that s going on, and you ve written the book and part about watergate and the politics surrounding it. when you look at this, what is the political implications and legacy of what we are seeing right now? well, i think they re two different ways of doing at this. one, this was one of the most sensitive actions of the u.s. justice department has ever taken. there are really only three and a lock that come to mind in my memory of the modern government and justice department. and watergate special commercial. and subpoena we should nixon s white house tapes. the fbi s attempt to get a dna sample from president clinton amid the kevin stars investigation. clinton s relationship with monica lewinsky. and the invests the fbi raid investigation of michael pro cohen.