drawers in the office there. the report also says agents searched former first lady melania trump s closet. trump s attorneys told the post agents would not let them inside the building to observe the raid. a laundry list of questions left unanswered at this point. silence from the d.o.j., at least until now. and from attorney general merrick garland himself. not a word. republicans are now demanding an explanation saying the american people have a right to know what sparked the raid. when are heads going to roll for those who are involved in weaponizing the power of our government to go after political enemies and to go after fishing expeditions such as this? the far left believes their cause is so worthy that anyone against them is a criminal and must be punished and put them away. is it plausible the f.b.i. would open up an investigation of donald trump without evidence? hell yes. this is too important to democracy, lay your cards on the table. you are doing a lot of
that is his summer residence. he s also about to meet in a few hours with several members of the republican study committee who are essentially rushing there to discuss what s going on. jim banks is the chairman of the rsd. he will be at bedminster. that s an aerial shot of the golf club. we ll keep a eye on the comings and goings and see if we hear anything from donald trump on all of this over the course of the afternoon. we saw a little reaction from him on truth social last night. we may get a public statement from him as we keep a close eye on who comes and goes from bedminster this afternoon. so the fbi, when you think about it, has been investigating donald trump for seven years. from the russia collusion days all the way until now. and this raid is likely just the beginning of the next stage in this story as it fires up the deepest entrenched forces for and against this most fiercely debated american president. he appears to have his eyes on the white house once again
want to say that for a variety of reasons, so they use this as their pretext to conduct a search. but i don t think they re looking to prosecute. the first prosecution ever by the justice department of a former president of the united states on this kind of a classified information violation, which is comparatively trivial. what they re trying to do is make the january 6 case. i doubt they ll make it. i think that s what they re trying to do. martha: yet the world that has been put out is that they re saying at the justice department that it s not january 6 related. do you not believe that? i don t believe that. i don t think that this can be separated from the warrants, the search warrants that were done on the two attorneys who are tied to this, john eastman and the justice department attorney, jeffery clark, who they were searched at the end of june. last week we heard they issued
why not just subpoena the documents they were interested in? it s been pointed out that even nixon was subpoenaed for his recordings. why a heavy-handed approach? it s like the fbi raid is like a mob bust. we spoke to a former senior council from the justice department today. he said that those investigators need to explain their actions. take a listen. the justice department and the fbi need to be as transparent about this as possible the search warrant that was approved by a federal judge so that we can see the actual reasons why they did this and what they thought justified this kind of a raid on the president. you know, if an fbi raid was as mr. trump says politically motivated, it could backfire. if it s supposed to hurt donald trump and supposed to affect the
is there a concern here that if you don t say more, the republicans that are accusing this white house of weaponizing the justice department and the fbi that that is the public sentiment, if you don t say we re not doing this once and for all? first of all, we re just not going to comment under the department of justice investigation.we re just not going to comment on that. is this white house weaponizing the justice department and the fbi against political opponents? the president has been very clear from before he was elected, very clear on this. hold on. throughout the time i heard the quote. we ll be playing the quote tonight at 6:00. is this administration weaponizing the justice department and the fbi against political opponents? peter, the president believes in the rule of law. the president believes in the independence of the department of justice that s a yes or no.