justice went to a federal judge and got a search warrant for the home of a former president. putting aside what s in the affidavit, putting aside what crime they specified, putting all of that aside, this is not something, and this is an understatement, that happens lightly, at the united states department of justice. one thing i would add, you made this point, but i want to sort of amplify it, rachel, two branches of government are involved in a search warrant. the executive branch, the fbi, the department of justice, has asked permission, and the judicial branch which grants permission. so this is not some fbi agent off by herself seeking to search a former president s home. highly scrutinized. the most fly speck affidavit i suppose in the history of the department of justice, and then approval by a federal judge. chuck, i started making calls and texting people as soon as the news broke tonight and in addition to yourself, i spoke to
0 2022 and they are going to google at the thought of what your life must be like. they will goggle at the thought of what it must be like to see something like this happening in your lifetime in realtime for the first time ever in american history, having no idea how it would how it would play out. nothing like this has ever happened before. and we don t know how it ends. tonight s news, that the fbi has raided the home of the immediate past-president of the united states, it feels both astonishing and sort of inevitable in equal measure. before republican president donald trump, we never before had a president impeached twice in a single term. we ve never had so many members of a president s own party vote not only to impeach him but to convict him and remove him from office and bar him from ever serving in office again. we have never before had a president reject the results of the election that did remove him from office, we never before had a president summon his followers into a