you got that sense talking to secretary mcdonough just how hefty this is, this task that is ahead of him but he says the va is ready to do it. i m glad you shined a light on the work that is done here. it s wonderful that it s happened, frustrating it took so long. certainly is. new day continues right now. good morning to viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it s thursday, august 11th. i m brianna keilar with john berman. there are some new revelations about the fbi s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. the wall street journal reports sometime after trump first turned over 15 boxes of material to the national archives last winter, quote, someone familiar with the stored papers told investigators there may be still more classified documents at the private club. sources tell cnn the fbi tried to avoid a spectacle at mar-a-lago, agents arriving in the late morning, they were not wearing fbi logo jackets that you commonly have seen at searches. remember
court, and i learned a long time ago as a line prosecutor and defense lawyer to respect the court process. were particular steps taken to ensure that the execution of the search warrant did not draw undue attention. i think there were step, sir. can you name a couple of them? among other thing, we did not have people coming in in so-called raid jacket which is is often you would see. the officers wore plain clothes and until trump left mar-a-lago to execute the search, is that correct? yes. chairman jordan has attacked the doj and fbi not attempting to get the documents back from trump consensually before obtaining a search warrant. i want to go through the options that trump had to return the documents. naira first asked trump to
have a very difficult rules, there was i m assume nothing guns for the agents going in, but myself i ve done searches where i m in a suit and no raid jacket and trying to draw less attention to the activity that s going on. what do you think, david, as you as you have seen the parameters of how this search was carried out? well, the search seems to be by the book and let me add that the concerns mentioned by many of the persons shown in your video prior would apply to anybody charged with any criminal offense in the united states. frankly one does not have complete knowledge that the law enforcement agency or officials didn t commit any wrongdoing. we just have to trust certain aspects of our system, we have to trust in due process. mr. trump has at his disposal way more resources than most any
nearly 20 people arrested and stunned residents amazed to discover their neighbors are actually suspected of supporting a middle eastern terrorist organization. the arrest of 17 individuals and the searches of 19 locations happened at the same time. i was on the team that was going to saed harb s house. they bring saed and his family out. i had been focused on harb because i really felt we needed that inside view. i introduced myself, with the fbi, obviously, wearing the raid jacket. the first thing he says to me is, hey, why the s.w.a.t. team? it s not like i m a terrorist or anything. and i just said, well, we re going to talk about that so he says, you look familiar. i said, well, i played soccer with you one sunday. i guess he figured out if i was playing soccer with him, i really knew everything i needed to know about his life. he had this recognition on his face that he was in big trouble.