florida has been search by the fbi. trump confirmed that himself tonight. three sources tell or sara murray and kristen holmes it was related to the handling of presidential documents including classified documents, those documents may have been brought to mar-a-lago when donald trump left the white house. house. in order to get a search warrant, prosecutors have to establish probable cause. at that a crime was committed. so, this is a very big deal. make no mistake about. it former president trump, has already blasted the move claiming as he often does, political persecution and a witch hunt. in a statement released tonight he says quote, these are dark times for our nation, as our beautiful home mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, is under siege. rated in occupied by a large group of fbi. agents nothing like this has ever happened to a president of united states before. after working at cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home, was
good evening, after days of increasingly violent rhetoric against the fbi, right wing social media and elsewhere, in the wake of the api search of the former presidents mention and attempts to discredit the bureau by republican lawmakers from several cable channels, we have seen the first deadly consequences. and armed men killed in a shootout after trying to beach the fbi cincinnati office, somebody whose name is on the social media account spelling out in vivid detail the war he apparently was launching. cnn s brynn gingras is reporting on the deeply troubling story with the latest. brynn, what happened and what are you learning about the suspect? anderson, we learned from multiple sources that the suspect is ricky shiffer, 42 years old. investigators are trying to figure out what connection he had with right extremist groups. what happened earlier today is that the cincinnati field office of the fbi, ricky shiffer walked in there, armed with an ar-15 style rifle and a na
the user talking about how they believe the election of donald trump in 2020 was stolen. did the users postings become more violent after they searched mar-a-lago? yes, they did. they were posted hours at that news broke about the search of the fbi raid a mar-a-lago. ill read that to you. he said, people, this is it. i hope a call to arms comes from somebody better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms for me. this person encourages people to go get guns, go to pawnshops, to take up arms with federal authorities. the rhetoric it s more violent, saying the next day, go to mar-a-lago, if you face any fbi agents, kill them, is what the post said. it is obviously extremely disturbing rhetoric coming from this user account. we know, as you just mentioned, the fbi has been on alert after the search on monday. right now, this investigation, it is unclear the motive of schiff are going into this field office today. that is being investigated, but maybe we will learn something
to other people. there is a wide range of things, and i do think that the statutes will give us indication of what this investigation is all about. he is in a pickle right now, because if he does not oppose, then we will find out. if it does oppose, then he is clearly hiding something. kaitlan, if the washington post reporting is accurate, and they re looking for new documents, to anyone who talk to in trump orbit have any explanation for why the former president of the u.s. would be holding on to, whether it is nuclear document or any classified documents in a closet or basement at mar-a-lago? is there an explanation for this? not so far that we heard. i think the confusion that some of his own allies have is why, when there was clearly an fervent effort by the national archives to get a hold of the
obviously, the amendment was not invoked, and, there has been public reporting that i won t go into this testimony, but reporters and alike that it was discussed that ultimately did not happen. you are also on the house judiciary committee, as i mentioned. i wonder what your reaction is to attorney general mark garland statement today and his move to unseal the warrant an inventory list for the search a mar-a-lago? i thought it was very smart. actually, the department kept the fact of the execution of the warmth secret. it was the former president himself who announced it. therefore, they don t need to protect that information. he released it. here is the concern. it is tremendous public interest in this, as you know, but there is also some rhetoric among some of my colleagues that i think is dangerous.