search broke. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. new details just in about why the fbi searched trump s mar-a-lago home. cnn learning tonight that investigators grew increasingly concerned that trump or his lawyers had not turned over all of the documents and other materials that were government property. officials also came to believe that trump s representatives were not being completely truthful when it came to the documents trump may have had in his possession. according to the washington post, the fbi also removed about a dozen boxes in monday s search. and it comes as new details are emerging about the lengths the fbi went to to keep the search under wraps. a search tells our whitney wild the secret service only had a one-hour heads up before the fbi showed up to execute the search warrant. only one hour. a source tells cnn that secret service agents validated the warrant, they met the fbi agents. they
thanks so much. nice to see you. thanks for joining us. i m christine romans. new day starts right now. it is something that has never happened before. at least not like this. the fbi searches the home of a former president. so, why? why would a federal judge agree there was probable cause a crime had been committed? what exactly were agents looking for? what is so urgent that merrick garland would sign off on this, assuming he did? i m john berman here with brianna keilar. these are some of the questions we will try to answer this morning. admittedly, some of these questions don t yet have answers. this is what we know so far, early monday morning, federal agents executing a warrant searched donald trump s mar-a-lago resort. we are told this is part of the investigation into the handling of classified documents, taking them from the white house to mar-a-lago. mishandling classified documents, hiding or destroying them, if that is what happened, could absolutely be ag
the fbi combing through donald trump s resort for classified documents. plus, a bipartisan win for joe biden. the president puts pen to paper on a law that he says will boost american manufacturing and provide more jobs. today, important primaries in four states, plus a dark twist in a georgia senate contest. a new ad surfaces accusations of abuse against the republican nominee, herschel walker. first time he held the gun to my head, he held the gun to my temple and said he s going to blow my brains out. we begin the hour with a monumental moment and what it might mean for the former president of the united states. federal agents serving a warrant and searching donald trump s home. the former president s palatial florida resort. the research started monday afternoon, and then confirmed within the hour by trump himself. the search was both legally executed and unprecedented. it is a stunning escalation in the federal probes into the former president. sources tell cnn the
engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b
as we first reported last night, an extraordinary escalation of the investigation into former president trump s handling of certain documents from his presidency. tonight, we re following the major political and legal implications of this truly fast moving story. cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz is here with us in the situation room. she s got the latest on the search of the resort in florida. wolf, republicans are attacking the justice department and fbi today. but this is a serious federal criminal investigation. everything we know about it so far really does appear to be by the book. the justice department is following protocols including keeps things secret at this time. what we know about what played out on monday is that it wasn t the sort of thing that you would call a raid, where fbi agents go in guns blazing, knocking on doors, yelling. instead, it was agents going to mar-a-lago and working, beginning in the a.m. with lots of people looki