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
defending his decision to visit saudi arabia as he travels to the middle east next week against criticism and controversy surrounding the trip. the president set to meet with saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman. biden vowed to make saudi arabia a pariah. now as president he says his visit to the country is critical to u.s. security. that s right. washington post op-ed the president writes it s my job to keep our country strong and secure. we have to counter russia s aggression, put ourselves in the best possible position to outcompete china, and work for greater stability in a consequential region of the world. to do these things we have to engage directly with countries that can impact those outcomes. the president s trip has come under criticism because of saudi arabia s role in the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi. the saudi crown prince was said to be responsible for ordering khashoggi s murder. let s get some perspective on president biden s trip. a historia
closest advisers. secret service was omnipresent, full stop. those text were and by the agents but a city in the rooms where it happened could be the key to the investigation, as testimony, of course, presents themselves as well. giving evidence about the coronation of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, but who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the room as things were happening, and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside the white house over those nearly 187 minutes, well over three hours, filling in the gaps, gap soon when donald trump told supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. we know that is the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing. we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then president trump during those three hours. he knows them quite well. trump s
he will meet face-to-face with the king and crown prince, what changed? inside politics, the biggest stories, sourced by the best reporters now. welcome to inside politics sunday, i am abby. the top lawyer in the trump white house spent nearly 8 hours under oath with the january 6 committee on friday. pat cipollone is a critical witness to key episodes of the committee investigations, he was in the room during conversations about seizing voting machines, installing a new attorney general, and issuing last-minute pardons, and he was also with the president during the capital riot. january 6 committee member, so, told cnn that pat cipollone was careful, but candid. a committee spokesman, also says that pat cipollone testified about nearly every topic that they are investigating, and that he underscored trumps supreme dereliction of duty . it was videotaped so you can expect to see some of it in public hearings this week. let s discuss all of this and more with our panel, m
bipartisan effort under way in congress now to protect future elections. we are covering all this from all angles. we have a team of reporters and analysts standing by. let s begin with manu raju on capitol hill. manu, tell us about this new legislation. reporter: this is the first direct response and most significant legislative response to the events of january 6th. a bipartisan group of senators just moments ago announced they have a deal to change how the so-called electoral count act, a law from 1887, works. essentially make it harder to overturn an election and what we saw donald trump try to do that s come out through the course of these hearings and before about how he tried to pressure vice president mike pence to overturn election results, pressure state officials to disregard the election, refuse to concede, claimed the election was stolen without any evidence of proof of widespread fraud. what this aims to do is make it very clear that a vice president s role in