they asked the doj to intervene. the sources also saying there was suspicion that trump representatives were not being completely truthful with authorities over the course of the investigation. in fact, yesterday, federal agents did remove a traditional boxes of materials from mar-a-lago. now trump, he has a copy of a search warrant, but he is not yet revealed its contents. we have a lot to get to tonight, i want to turn right away to cnn s senior washington correspondent, pamela brown. pamela, i know you are on the story, you re getting some new information tonight about the investigation. what are you learning? a source familiar says that it s part of the fbi s investigation into the former president s handling of possibly classified information. doj investigators subpoenaed the trump organization for surveillance footage of mar-a-lago. now, this happened after a visit with the fbi, doj vigils went to mar-a-lago in june. met with trump s representatives, down there, after
house that the justice department wanted back. what we are learning is that authorities were suspicious that the trump team was not being utterly truthful with them. they were concerned that the trump team was holding back documents. that there are not putting forward everything that they had available. they re also concerned that some of those documents to potentially have national security implications. so that is part of what led to the search. they ve, you ve been talking to local law enforcement about this. i m wondering what you re learning down there in florida. you know laura, first, off we in the state attorney s office did not know about this search in advance. neither did local law enforcement. but you can understand why we are dealing with something so sensitive, so unprecedented, you can understand why the feds want to keep this close to the best. and when i was told is that the secret service met them there and walk the plain clothes fbi agents throughout th
i m taking charge, with garlique. a new details in about why the fbi searched comes mar-a-lago home authorities telling cnn that the authorities did not believe that the former president and his eight returned all the documents and other materials that have been taken to mar-a-lago when he left office. i wanna bring in cnn sarah murray who is covering the and the state attorney for palm beach county florida. sarah let s begin with you, because we are learning that this fbi search after suspicions that withheld materials but sk tell us? i mean part of what made this so perplexing, particles to the people in trump s orbit, where that is attorneys were engaging in this issue this idea that he took documents with him as he left the white
operation. so when donald trump calls it a rate, or siege, those are political terms. he wants to be the maga candidate who began in 2024. and the best way to do that it s become a maga martyr. he s not way to doing just that. the question is for how long? the idea plainclothes officers puts the idea of being under the radar. you know, this happened early in the morning. it took several hours before we are all aware the nation that this happened and only then, to the former president, we re also getting new information, sarah, about investigators going after mar-a-lago s surveillance footage. what do you know about that? it is hard to know exactly how this went on. but at what we are learning as justice department of educators subpoena for the trump organization and what they were looking for were surveillance tapes from mar-a-lago. we are told that the trump organization complied. they handed all those tapes over. all this happened before this fbi search at mar-a-lago.
continue to trust on that notion, but sarah you have some new reporting as well. the republican congressman, scott perry, was seized by the fbi. is this related to what we are talking about in mar-a-lago or right now, it appears to be distinct. but the caveat that we don t know how a number of these investigations are or where they wouldn t intersect, that is the caveat what s called harry said in his statement today is that he was traveling with his family and was confronted by three fbi agents who had a warrant and they csis bone. but we have been learning from a source familiar with the content of that warrant is that this appears to be related to the justice department, oig investigation into jeffrey clark. he is a former justice department official, scott perry was the one who introduced jeffrey clark to donald trump. then jeffrey clark went on with trump to sort of buy into all of these election fraud claims, come up with this crazy attempt to try to have a coup at the justic