search of donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. it s the first time in american history the bureau has searched the home of a former president. sources say agents removed boxes of items and trump s attorney confirmed papers were taken. cnn has learned the warrant is tied to an investigation about how presidential documents were handled, including ones that were deemed classified. the former president, while at trump tower in new york, confirmed the fbi was in his home and he says broke into his safe. top republicans are rallying behind the former president after the search, which likely was approved by leaders of the justice department, including trump appointed director of the fbi christopher wray. joining us now, cnn s gabby orr, and katelyn polantz, unprecedented, as we said, what do we know about the search. this was a search that began in the morning yesterday, and as far as we know lasted quite some time. law enforcement went in to mar-a-lago. they were focused on trump s
decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trump s lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. in their response, trump s lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trump s lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say there was no need to be alarmed. that trump s home should never have been searched for this. while we still don t know what was in the 320-plus highly classified documents that were recovered, we do know, trump attempted to obstruct the fbi s investigation into the handling of classified material. there s a lot to digest. let s go to west palm beach, florida, outside of the courthouse. the hear willing start at 1:00 eastern time today. walk us through what plays out now. about three hours from
jake, that call that was on full display today during this hearing was, of course, the hour-long phone call that then-president trump had in january with these election officials in the state of georgia. mainly the secretary of state, brad raffensperger, who you heard from today. and i m told that despite what you saw today, which was the committee playing clips of that call with claims from trump saying thousands of ballots had been shredded or thousands of dead people had voted, and then flashing to raffensperger saying that s not true, we checked that out. that s also not true. trump has continued to defend that call. he has said it was a perfect call. he has told people he assumed it was being recorded. there were attorneys on the line as they were in this hour-lawn call where he alternated between asking for raffensperger to find these votes, thinly veiled threatening him when it came to certain pushback on claims he was making, and despite the fact you heard from them
lost data was due to a planned tech migration and that the texts investigators wanted were not actually among those that disappeared. let s bring in former federal prosecutor and lead counsel in the first trump impeachment trial daniel goldman, he is now running for congress in new york. daniel, what do you see here? what we know is that a homeland security inspector general asked for these text messages and now we are learning from this homeland security inspector general, it s a letter from this person, saying that they were destroyed according to them after this request. what does that tell you? well, first of all, let s remember these letters are not written lightly to congress. i am sure that the inspector general notified the secret service that they would have to send this letter if they did not get better compliance and they didn t, but more importantly and to the point, there are a lot of questions that this raises. they claim that it was a phone migration system
television commentator was definite stated remotely. we will have the latest from moscow in a moment. we begin this hour with the latest on the violent arrest in arkansas caught on camera. cnn correspondent omar jimenez is following all of this. as poppy said, the images contained are disturbing. reporter: three arkansas law enforcement officers have been removed from duty after this video showing them hitting a man outside a store in mulberry, arkansas, was posted to social media. the officers are seen punching and kneeing the suspect repeatedly and, later, arresting him. in the video, a woman not seen can be heard screaming to stop beating him telling the officers he needs his medicine. an officer points and yells at her to back up. the person who posted the avoid says her sister witnessed the altercation. the two crawford county deputies were suspended and the mulberry police officer placed on administrative leave while the incident is investigated. police say the man in