trump saved us from a lot back in 2016, but even trump couldn t bring us through all of this. however, together we can take back our republic and have to get unified. will: joe, i understand you re currently leading your race for congress. best of luck. thank you tonight for jumping on tucker carlson tonight. absolutely. thank you for having me. will: reports tonight that the raid on donald trump s mar-a-lago residence was approved at the highest levels of the doj at the very least. donald trump is calling this raid lawless and unprecedented. the question is, who had to sign off on this? jonathan turley joins us to break down the legal implication. thank you for being on the program. thank you. will: how high did this have to be approved? i think that attorney general merritt garland almost certainly signed off on this. it s hard to imagine a decision of this magnitude would be made without his knowledge and approval. he hasn t recused himself.
former trump advisory. steven, what a day in american history. your reaction. this is an abomination. you have the sitting president of the united states, joe biden, through his justice department, through his fbi, conducting a raid on the person who is presumed to be his opponent in the next election, and also the 45th president of the united states. as president trump pointed out in his statement, it is risible to this would be purportedly done in the name of document preservation from the leaks we ve seen when hillary clinton used an off-book server for years to conduct classified state business and at the same time money was being funneled by the millions into the clinton foundation with the very people she was doing business with. to this day, has never been investigated, not by the fbi, not by the irs, not by anybody.
usually not against a former president. not against a former president. this has never happened before and i m pretty connected with this country and i can feel it in my blood and i know how this country is going to feel tonight and how they are feeling now. and this is unacceptable and people are going to make their voices heard. thanks for joining us. tucker is up next. not even going to do it. tucker: a fox news alert. good evening. welcome to tucker carlson tonight. i m will cain in for tucker. a little over ago, we learned that the biden administration raided the home of the former president donald trump in palm beach, florida. donald trump announced the raid in a statement. fox news confirmed that the raid occurred. quote, these are dark times for our nation, said the former president, as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago, in palm beach, florida, is currently under siege, occupied by a large group
about those documents and they are i m assuming classified has a lot to do with this, that they were not supposed to be removed because their classification. you re assuming when he left he still had the power of the presidency and took those documents. doesn t he also have the power to declassify documents, jonathan? he does. i testified on that in congress on this very issue with about president trump, when he was still president. he had the ultimate declassification authority that ended when his president ended. they could be arguing that if he did not turn over these documents he knowingly retained documents. will: that s key. that s excellent information tonight from jonathan turley. thank you so much. thank you. will: the raid on mar-a-lago isn t the first time joe biden has used the doj to target his political opponents. earlier this year, armed federal agents arrested jeff clark in his pajamas in a predawn raid.
arguing such an assault could only take place in broken third world countries. the former president says federal authorities broke into his safe. the search comes after numerous televised hearings on capitol hill looking to the events of january 6th, 2021, and more questioning of former trump administration officials by the justice department regarding the events after the 2020 election in the final weeks of the former president s time in office. it s not entirely clear why today was chosen to launch the fbi raid. the former president calling it political targeting at the highest level, comparing this to former secretary of state hillary clinton, but noting nothing has happened to hold her accountable. will? will: do we know you mentioned evidentiary or legal basis for the raid do we know