airtime we have assembled a team of correspondents and experts to tell you what is known, but it could mean, and where it may lead. cnn s kaitlan collins starts us off. caitlin what are you learning about this fbi operation? john, it s a remarkable development with the former president himself confirming that the fbi has executed a search warrant on his home in palm beach, florida today. he said in a statement that his beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, which became s primary residence after he left the white house is, quote, currently under siege, rated and not occupied by a large number of fbi agents. he says after working in cooperating with the relevant government agencies, the sun announced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. he adds, quote, they even broke into my safe and he compared it to water gate or worse than water gain and maintains it s an effort to stop him from running for president in 2024. we should note we have now learned this search
Hello, and welcome to bbc news. President trump has declared a National Emergency in response to the coronavirus outbreak, with more than 1,700 confirmed cases in the United States and 47 deaths. The move gives the government access to up to 50 billion dollars in emergency funding. Nick bryant reports. Grand Central Station on the first full day of new york citys state of emergency. Morning commuters so far unaware that the entire country was about to be placed on a similar crisis footing. In the city of his birth, there has been fury at donald trump for not taking the pandemic seriously enough, fumbling the federal governments response. The federal government has watched this, absolutely out of control. There has been little to no testing. They have been completely misinforming people. What were hearing has changed from one day to the next. He doesnt believe in science, for heavens sakes. Could i say that trump is completely clueless . Its all about him. In the fragrant setting of the
Contributor Rachel Campos duffy, and at todays oneluckyguy, bill hemmer is here, and he is outnumbered. Bill thank you, ladies for having me. Sandra we have an update. They are, we want to get straight it to you. Anything at changing at this moment . Good afternoon, i am glad to see that someone is working besides you and bill this morning. We do have a statement from the president s attorney on the Russian Investigation who is working inside of the white house counsels office. Outside counsel as well. He is working inside the white house. Just a short time ago he said it today, Michael Flynn, former National Security advisor, and a former Obama Administration, made a false statement to the fbi. He goes on to say it you can put that screen back up the statements involved in mirror the false statements to the white house officials, resulting in his resignation in february of this year. Nothing about the guilty plea or the charge implicates anyone other than mr. Flynn. The conclusion dem
david axel roth, and former special assistant president george w. bush, scott jennings. dana, you ve got new reporting. we ve learned about this from a statement from the former president himself. what have you heard? that that was intentional. it may seem obvious, but it s important to point out why the former president did what he did. the lengthy statement. this could have been done and we could have gone for weeks and months without knowing about this search warrant, and the fact that the fbi went tamara largo. the former president wanted people to know, he wanted to stir the political pot, because what is happening right now in trump world and among those who are kind of wanting to see, particularly in the republican party, those who may have been drifting away from the former president, what s happening is they are rallying around him.
we knew had happen. he had taken about 15 boxes with him tamara largo when he left the white house and they delayed returning those boxes back to the national archive. we knew this had been under investigation, because there had actually been a subpoena issued to the national archives itself for what was included in these documents. they wanted to know what was in, them who boxed them, up who personally took them tomorrow legault, there were questions surrounding, this but this is a dramatic escalation for these fbi agents to execute a search warrant. i will know that the justice department is not commenting, the biden white house was also unaware that this was being conducted and said they found out with the rest of us did, which is with the former president confirmed, i also want to note trump was not present at mar-a-lago when it happened. he was in the trump tower at new york, he was not in palm beach. clearly, the president is very unhappy about