we ve been told by multiple sources this is related to the presidential records act. this has to do with materials he took when he left the white house potentially classified documents that he took. we know from earlier reporting the national archive has recovered 16 boxes of material of the former president has talk with him. but what this is focusing on is where he was keeping costs five, or potential classified materials. whether anything was left behind. but it did seem like a bit of a shock. even to the trump people because they have had lawyers that were engaging with investigators on this issue. i mean randi, on that point, you re on the ground in palm beach county. boxes and 15 others were reclaimed by the national archives. boxes were so taken by the fbi. this time around, what more can you tell us? we know that boxes of items were seized, they were removed from our logo today. our colleague, ivan perez, and gaby or both confirming this information with the sourc
news himself just hours ago. multiple sources tell cnn the search is related to the handling of classified documents and where documents were kept. cnn s randi kaye and sara murray are covering the very latest. this is such a huge night to think about what s going on right now. extraordinary developments continue to come out, sara. what are you learning about this fbi search at mar-a-lago? absolutely. these are very wild circumstances because we re talking about a former president and he broke the news. he released a long statement saying the fbi had even searched a safe that he had. we ve been told by multiple sources this is related to the presidential records act. this has to do with materials he took when he left the white house potentially classified documents that he took and we know from earlier reporting the national archives said they had recovered 15 boxes of materials that the former president took with him, but what this was focused on is where he was keeping cl
they had already been engaging with investigators on this issue and then to see this unannounced search take place. when i hear an unannounced search, i think they might believe something is fleeting or might have legs and walk away. there had to have been some breakdown in communication even with the conversation between the lawyers and, of course, doj. there still was something not trustworthy about what was said or to dot one s i s and cross one s t s. we read that statement, but we re hearing from eric trump as well tonight. what is eric trump saying, randi? reporter: he went on fox news tonight talking about this raid and he offered his own explanation to sean hannity as to why the fbi showed up at mar- a-lago in florida today. this is what he said. the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the national archives wanted to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. my father has worked so
now of course, he s referring to this search by the fbi agents. one of his attorneys, christina bob, pointed out that trump and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj officials. and she went on to say that the fbi did conduct this search and said it was on an ounce and they ceased, as she put it, paper. but what randy was talking about, documents. i guess that it did seem to be a little bit of a surprise. they had already been engaging with investigators on this issue and then to see this unannounced search take place. when i heard enough search i think they might believe that something is fleeting or, might have likes all of a sudden and walk away. there had to be some breakdown, randy, into communication. even with the conference between the lawyers at the doj. there is still something not trustworthy about what was being said, or should not one size across one steve. but we are also hearing, if we read that statement. we are hearing from eric trump as well tonig