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
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
quite the opposite in our justice system. we have heard accounts does this or that mean this is ramping up or expanding? that s not how it works. there s a serious federal criminal investigation. it can result in charges or no charges. grand jury one or more. in a full set of cases or not. so why this is significant is not that it s somehow changing the entire face of the investigation. i would say it more suggests that this is continuing a pace with a full fleet of lawyers we know a count of over 16 and greg an dras who is a respected prosecutor, married to a judge in new york who recused herself from trump s case. they ll use a grand jury in washington for. now, it s possible and again i want to speak to the nuance here. this is important. this is significant. i saw this alert came in and i said whoa. this is a big story.