crime was committed. so, this is a very big deal. make no mistake about it. former president trump has already blasted the move, claiming, as he often does, political persecution and a witch hunt. in a statement released tonight, he says, quote, these are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago in palm beach, florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the united states before. after working and cooperating with the government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate. such an assault would only take place in broken third world countries. they even broke into my safe. cnn has learned donald trump was not in florida when the fbi closed in on his home. he was at trump tower here in new york city. i am joined now by cnn political analyst matt haberman, a cnn political correspondent for the new york times, and author of the up
the american people including some republicans, you know, kind of the gravity of donald trump s crimes against this country. it s funny you say that. there is this feeling and it is a trump fizzle right now. certainly his campaign reboot is not feeling the same as the original. and yet, as you say, some of this stuff very concrete. it s going to be interesting. i want to thank both of you, paul butler, always great to have you. michelle comes back with a great playwrite. right? exciting. we re excited. we don t just do the terrible serious news. we have a lot more coming up on other topics, elon musk has really owned himself in the deepest way. he is going full animal farm and banning his critics which is the thing he said he didn t like about old twitter. we get into his theory and why it matters in politics even if you don t tweet. also, the fact check that is haunting ron desantis. t is haunting ron desantis.
and in some cases the flushing of paper that were handwritten notes on it and so forth. we don t know what this is, but there is a reason to assume, again, just based on the fact that a judge signed off on this search warrant, that there was something significant there. now, it depends on what it is. is it something that, you know, his supporters would recognize as major? i don t know. i do know that his folks i shouldn t say his folks. some of his folks, certainly not all, and certainly him, have a long-standing habit of conflating legal problems with pr problems. and at the moment, they are treating this like it s a pr problem, but it s a legal problem. it may not be a consequential legal problem. we don t know what that looks like. i have no idea where this is going to result. we have seen investigations of people around trump fizzle. we have seen investigations of people around trump result in guilty pleas of convictions. i don t know if this is going to be anything. obviously an