. ,. ,. . . ,,,,,. ,. . ,,,,. . . ,. ,,, such an assault could only take place in broken third world country. sadly americas, now become one of those countries, corrupt at a level not seen before. they even broke into my safe! what is the difference between this and watergate, or operatives broke into the democratic national committee? here in reverse, democrats broke into the home of the 45th president of the united states. as you just heard, trump himself admitted that he is corroborating with the relevant government agencies in this investigation. the ex president, right about one thing. this is a truly unprecedented event. ken delaney justice and news correspondent. he joins me now. this is developing story. what more do we? no elissa, we have new reporting in from my colleague colleague anna who was told by a source familiar with the matter saying that the president is in new york city today. he was not present for the search. secondly, she has learned that the fbi not
truly unprecedented event, the florida home of donald trump has been raided by the fbi. trump, who is currently in new york city issued a lengthy statement where he claimed to be cooperating with a government investigation, and tried to frame the execution of a source for warrant, as a politically motivated attack against him. betsy woodruff swan is a national correspondent at politico, and she is extensively covered the various investigations into donald trump s attempted coup. peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for the new york times, where he covered the trump presidency and the fallout. betsy, i know you have been working the phones, talking with your sources, what more can you tell us about the developing story? yeah, we ve confirmed that this is related to documents at the national archives, but they ve been trying to recover from trump, documents that he allegedly improperly took from the white house to mar-a-lago. but i can tell you is that months ago, agents
be cooperating with a government investigation, and tried to frame the execution of a source for warrant, as a politically motivated attack against him. betsy woodruff swan is a national correspondent at politico, and she is extensively covered the various investigations into donald trump s attempted coup. peter baker is the chief white house correspondent for the new york times, where he covered the trump presidency and the fallout. betsy, i know you have been working the phones, talking with your sources, what more can you tell us about the developing story? yeah, we ve confirmed that this is related to documents at the national archives, but they ve been trying to recover from trump, documents that he allegedly improperly took from the white house to mar-a-lago. but i can tell you is that months ago, agents went to mar-a-lago, met with trump s lawyers, went through boxes, look to documents, and then took some materials with them after they left. months have now passed, and now
today we are seeing a search warrant be executed and mar-a-lago. the timing is really important here, because in order to get a search warrant like this, investigators have to prove not just that they can think that there is probable cause, there s evidence of crime at a particular location, but they think there is evidence of a crime at a particular location, and also at a specific time. so, what that means is that the agents who got a greenlight from a judge to execute this search warrant. essentially came to the conclusion that they don t get the full story from trump and his allies, when they had that first conversation, or at least one conversation several months earlier. it means they view this as a live issue, they view criminal activity potentially as evidence of criminal activity, potentially as available at this location. of course, trump hinted that a little bit in a statement, in the statement he referred to or alluded to the fact that there was already some sort of commu
congressman scott perry. a republican member of congress from pennsylvania, who played a role in trump s postelection efforts to try to reverse the election outcome. so, the knowledge we have john morality is on trump s legal team, and in specifically dealing with federal prosecutors on as we have, highlights the extent to which is more and more clear a trump himself and people in his immediate circle, or taking his legal problem seriously, are dealing with the potential jeopardy faces as a real issue, and are bringing on people who have the kind of experience that would be very much relevant to the investigations that trump is facing. and peter prior to this breaking news you no response to talk about some of your