archives tried for a long time to get back before they were finally able to get them from him, this is apparently such some of this at least is stuff of such high classification that not only can you and i not know the content of these documents, we can t know any of the words that are in the document, you can t know about the existence of the document. you can t have the type of document it is described to you unless you have a very high level government clearance. it s that classified. that s what he took to, like, the golf course, the golf club whatever it is, the supper club, whatever it is, his gold thing in south florida. the new york times is reporting tonight that it is the classified documents investigation that led to today s fbi raid, that led to the execution of the search warrant at the former president s property. it was jackie almany and her colleagues at the post that first reported the existence of this problem and its
seriousness. as we continue to follow this breaking news story tonight, it is a remarkable advance in this story that the fbi is taking public facing steps in this investigation. we ve known this investigation was under way for several months. them executing this search warrant today in south florida has all sorts of implications as to the seriousness of this matter. in broad historical terms today will always be the day that you and i and all of us learned that a former president of the united states had been raided by the fbi. joining us now is jackieal many, investigations reporter for the washington post. ms. almany, thank you for being with us tonight. this feels like maybe not full circle but quite a ways around the ark from your initial reporting. thanks so much for having me. i know you and your colleagues have been continuing to report this story. you were first to break the news of this scandal six months ago. what do you understand about the latest here, about the scop
if we cannot come to a conclusion there and get the documents, then they ll have to be subpoenas. malmany could, at the end of the day it is not about michael flynn. this is a white house that hired him knowing who he was and what he was doing. the vice president claimed he had no knowledge, golly, he had no idea what he was doing when he did. they were all informed of it, sally yates informed them of it. they knew what was going on as rob said. how do we get to the question or the answer who coordinated and made it such that this many people with ties to russia wound up either in that campaign or in that white house? do you feel confident that we will ever an get to that question? that answer? i believe we will get to that answer. and you know, to give credit to a component of the white house, there are two white houses going on here. you have the general mcmaster, general mattis white house which apparently has none of these problems. everybody is vetted. people are cleared.