group of agents saying it was, quote, unannounced. which is what normally happens with search warrants, by the way. and that they broke into a safe. now he wasn t there and they carried out the search. but i want to turn right away to cnn correspondent, randi kaye, who is actually in palm beach county. i ll stay with us tonight cnn s chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. caitlin i want to begin with you here. because, look, a search on the former president s home is absolutely extraordinary. and now we know it is about the handling of classified documents. what is happening right now? what is it all about? it certainly is remarkable. if these events are unfolding in the way that the former president is saying that they are and the statement it does seem to be a pretty huge escalation of what we already know. that there was an investigation underway and to whether or not he mishandled potentially classified information when he left the white house. now, when it c
first floor coasting predominant. that begins right now. a lower. a sour, and icu, this is don lemon tonight everyone. i m laura coats sitting in for the great document. and we begin with major, i mean, really big news. a few hours ago we learned from former president trump directly, no less, of an fbi executing a search warrant at the mar-a-lago estate. his resort, of course, in florida. local sources saying the search is related to the handling of classified documents and were documents were kept. sources are also saying that boxes of items were actually taken during the search. and that documents were seized. trump is calling this a raid. and what he described as a large group of agents saying it was, quote, unannounced. which is what normally happens with search warrants, by the way. that they broke into a safe. he wasn t there, as they carried out the search. but i want to turn right away to cnn correspondent, randi kate, who s actually at palm beach county. also here
Fbi statements were there. at mar-a-lago. we are told that was about 8:00 this morning. and that was a search that lasted for several hours. and trump said in the statement that they, quote, even broke into my safe. i am told that is a safe that was in the presidents office at mar-a-lago. it is obviously a large resort, but there is a section that was reserved just for the former president and his family. he has officers there. he has this president. there it is s primary residence since leaving the white house. and so, when it comes to what exactly they are looking for here, these investigators and the fbi agents. they re actually executing the search warrant. we were told it is tied to that investigation and into how that information was handled. it will take about 50 boxes with him when he left the white house. to mar-a-lago. there were concerns about what kind of information was in there. but potentially classified information was in there. clearly, those are still big questions th
Would fall along with whatever point they re actually seek to get from the judge. but from your impression, working with the afghan particular, can you imagine a judge having a bare bones cursory knowledge of whatever they wanted and saying just go ahead and do which is like there? they would have the dot every i, crossed every t, because it would ve been a perception that this was a fishing expedition. what is your thought? there is no doubt, i mean, this went to the highest level to make sure as you said the eyes were dotted and t s were crossed. i think the biggest concern that the fbi had was really the marshaling or policing of these classified documents. the fact that donald trump, the former president, had a safe at mar-a-lago is of no consequence with respect to the protocols and procedures. that would be required under normal circumstances for a person to be in possession of classified documents. i think, the fact that they came with a safe cracker, that
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