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
going on for months. the only reason you have a search like this, and let s be polite and call it a search and not a raid was if trump was not turning up what he had or the archives of the federal government felt he was not being cooperative. so we will know a lot more soon but whatever we learn and probably not be great news. so, when it comes to looking at the last 25 or 30 years, we ve had major congressional hearings right? we have had hearings about oliver north, we had hearings about benghazi, we ve had hearings on everything. we ve had hearings on the affordable care act. the republicans have threatened that if they take over those they will gum up the last two years of president biden s first term in office with nothing but hearings about this investigation. do you think that the republicans take over the house and they do that, without might have a tendency to backfire? the january six hearings have
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
point as any that they can think of. ben, one of the things i always get concerned about when we see messages getting amplified online is how much of it is from sort of authentic verified people that we know are real, and how much of it is bots? now, obviously if you re on the donald, if you re on some of these sort of right wing sites, maybe you re a human being but when it comes to twitter and facebook, we don t know if these people are real. do you get the sense that there could be some bot amplification of anger right now that s going on because of the search of trump s mar-a-lago location, or do you think this really is sort of authentic and it s not astroturf. it s a combo of both of these things. it would be stupid to heave this on the table. if your point is to rile people up and get them in the streets and angry enough to cause civil unrest, of course you would probably to get in on this, but this happened so quickly that most of this would be authentic.
richard nixon is going to resign. let s place yesterday s search, not a raid, we ll call it a search, let s put yesterday search in this context. in 50 years, we re not just jumping 30, in 50 year s would be looking back at this moment the same we looked at nixon s rising nation. nixon s resignation is something everybody learned out in school. it was not just seen as a change politically but a change in the country. the country had never seen a president say he just stop step bound from office because he couldn t handle it i m not a crook. do you think this will be viewed the same way or is this gonna be more trumps? i think this is gonna show how much this country has changed for the worst. 40 years ago as you know and studying and remembering, nixon put out tapes that he had obstructed justice. he told the fbi not to identify the watergate gray can. almost every republican member