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
i meaner, the fact they have crossed i hate to use the metaphor because people are using it they have crossed the rubicon here. it s unprecedenteded eded for . even san clemente, richard things s house at san clemente. it s just remarkable that the justice department would take such a step. and the fact that a federal judge approved, hey, they ve got something there. we just don t know what it is. this is not very merrick garland well, he is merrick garland in the following sense, he truly believes as he has said repeatedly that no one is above the law. so, this has been an example of that. but it s also not necessarily merrick garland in just the fact
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