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
we ve been told by multiple sources this is related to the presidential records act. this has to do with materials he took when he left the white house potentially classified documents that he took. we know from earlier reporting the national archive has recovered 16 boxes of material of the former president has talk with him. but what this is focusing on is where he was keeping costs five, or potential classified materials. whether anything was left behind. but it did seem like a bit of a shock. even to the trump people because they have had lawyers that were engaging with investigators on this issue. i mean randi, on that point, you re on the ground in palm beach county. boxes and 15 others were reclaimed by the national archives. boxes were so taken by the fbi. this time around, what more can you tell us? we know that boxes of items were seized, they were removed from our logo today. our colleague, ivan perez, and gaby or both confirming this information with the sourc
news himself just hours ago. multiple sources tell cnn the search is related to the handling of classified documents and where documents were kept. cnn s randi kaye and sara murray are covering the very latest. this is such a huge night to think about what s going on right now. extraordinary developments continue to come out, sara. what are you learning about this fbi search at mar-a-lago? absolutely. these are very wild circumstances because we re talking about a former president and he broke the news. he released a long statement saying the fbi had even searched a safe that he had. we ve been told by multiple sources this is related to the presidential records act. this has to do with materials he took when he left the white house potentially classified documents that he took and we know from earlier reporting the national archives said they had recovered 15 boxes of materials that the former president took with him, but what this was focused on is where he was keeping cl
the fbi combing through donald trump s resort for classified documents. plus, a bipartisan win for joe biden. the president puts pen to paper on a law that he says will boost american manufacturing and provide more jobs. today, important primaries in four states, plus a dark twist in a georgia senate contest. a new ad surfaces accusations of abuse against the republican nominee, herschel walker. first time he held the gun to my head, he held the gun to my temple and said he s going to blow my brains out. we begin the hour with a monumental moment and what it might mean for the former president of the united states. federal agents serving a warrant and searching donald trump s home. the former president s palatial florida resort. the research started monday afternoon, and then confirmed within the hour by trump himself. the search was both legally executed and unprecedented. it is a stunning escalation in the federal probes into the former president. sources tell cnn the
engaging in political persecution, but we know a federal judge had to sign off on this search warrant. it wasn t just the fbi acting on its own. and before it was even in front of that judge, the highest levels of the doj including the trump appointed director of the fbi, likely had to approve the action. we also know that the fbi met with trump s legal team in june about white house documents that were being stored at mar-a-lago. so the key question in this mystery now is, what changed between that june meeting and yesterday? it was big enough to compel the fbi to move. cnn s leyla santiago is live outside mar-a-lago. you re learning more about the timeline and what led up to the search. fill us in. it s important to go all the way back to the beginning of the year. january, where we start to see this timeline unfold, when we know that president trump s team was interviewed by the fbi. and that s when they really started to look into what was a lot of records believed to b