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
ex-president to have the fbi execute a search warrant on his home. trump posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was, quote, currently under siege, raided and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, quote, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news the investigation is related to the transfer of classified government documents from the white house to mar-a-lago. the national archives reported in february that 15 boxes of documents were improperly taken to the president s florida estate when he left office. at the time, the agency said it had asked the justice department to investigate. a source familiar with the situation tells nbc news, boxes of documents were seized during yesterday s fbi search. trump s attorney released a statement claiming the former president and his legal team have been cooperative with the fbi and doj, quote, every step of the way. trump slammed the search as, quote, prosecutorial misconduct
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it s got to be really high, joe. this goes to the top levels. merrick garland had to sign off on this. the alternative would have been issue a subpoena. they could have done that. but they did not trust donald trump to turn the documents over. they obviously thought documents would be destroyed or hidden, so they went in to get them. i know donald trump is saying that this is a raid, but that s a gross exaggeration. first off, my office and local law enforcement, they were not informed in advance about this search warrant, but that s not unusual. because this is a sensitive matter. it s the first time in history this has ever happened. you can understand why the fbi kept this close to the vest. but they went in apparently with plain clothes and with the secret service, who walked them around. according to what i heard, it was a very orderly, smooth process. quite different than a siege on the property. but trump benefits from calling it a raid or a siege, because then he gets to be t