not even bothering to disguise their identities. and why should why you should not buy into the hype that the fbi search at mar-a-lago is somehow unprecedented. good evening, i m jason johnson in for joy reid and we begin 24 hours perhaps after the biggest story of the american presidency, that for the first time in history the fbi conducted a search at the home of a former president, that of donald trump. we have learned a lot more about what went down in his mar-a-lago residence, but there are still a lot of up answered questions. a source familiar with the matter tells nbc news that the search was tied to classified information trump allegedly took with him when he left the white house. remember back in february the national archives asked the justice department to investigate if trump s handling of white house records violated federal law. it came a month after the archives retrieved 15 boxes of presidential records taken to mar-a-lago. nbc news that the fbi notified tr
a lot of people have since. that republican romp in november that was a give-me, not so fast and not a give-me. we have you covered with connell mcshane on what has mcconnell worried. jessica taylor on the polls showing the cracks and grady trimble at the iowa state fair with potential presidential candidates looking for openings. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. let s begin with connell mcshane on what is giving mitch that twitch. it s interesting. leader mcconnell is making the point that if you look at a statewide race, that s really when the candidate matters, not just whether there s an r or d next to his name what many expect to be a big year for republicans, when we dig in, we see the gop struggling in senate races. the democrat is john fedder man leading dr. oz in the polls so much so that the cook political report has changed the rating from toss-up to now lean democrat. fedderman has been trying to portray oz as this out of touch carpet b
the results and he should con seed. the video also showed evidence that trump called on his supporters to march on the cal toll was planned. cnn correspondent jessica schneider joins us from washington. so what are you learning? interestingly, alison, chairman betty thomson just talked about this. he says the committee is finally handed over some materials to the doj, but it s mostly pertaining to the fake elector scheme. so all of that from the hundreds of interviews they have conducted they have now handed over the doj. this has been about how much the committee would share. now it seems those records as it pertains to the elector scheme, those are finally being shared possibly with more to come. what s even more significant here is vice cheney s chair of possible witness tampering. she s brought it up twice now. she says the committee alerted doj that trump tried to contact a witness and the witness alerted their attorney who then informed the committee that this phone
playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
republican lawmakers are calling for the fbi to be defended and what this says about trump s on going legal jeopardy. we ll begin with nbc kerry sanders in florida for us today, justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian in washington. kerry, i ll start with you outside mar-a-lago. tell us what you re seeing and what happened there yesterday? i m just across the water from mar-a-lago. it s very quiet today. yesterday was a very different situation. the secret service was notified by the fbi they would be coming by to serve a search warrant. the former president, donald trump, was not here at mar-a-lago when they came in. they did spend a tremendous amount of the day executing this search warrant. there was a lawyer who represents donald trump who was here. she says there was a cooperative experience with the fbi, that they were able to work with the fbi and the department of justice as they were executing the search warrant. it s important to note that while we h