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is a pr problem, but it is a legal problem. it is more political persecution of donald j. trump. they can t stand that americans love him. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, august 9. 4:00 a.m. in palm beach florida where the fbi has executed a search warrant at donald trump s residence inside his mar-a-lago resort. multiple sources say it is part of an investigation into trump s handling of presidential documents including classified material. a person close to the matter tells cnn agents took boxes of items from the property. the former president was in this morning at the time, again sources tell cnn investigators have visited mar-a-lago in recent months to talk with tru trump s attorney about material taken from the white house. with trump in new york the secret service presence in mar-a-lago was small but a source says the fbi did provide a head s up before the search. cnn is learning the fbi interviewed aides to the form ....
into his home and cracked open his safe in what he called a raid. now, this is an extraordinary development and remarkable escalation of the investigations surrounding the former president. trump has already weaponized the search and using to fund raise already. here is how his son eric is explaining it on fox. to have 30 fbi agents, actually more than that, descend on mar-a-lago, give absolutely, you know, no notice, go through the gate, start ransacking an office, ransacking a closet, you know, they broke into a safe, he didn t even have anything in the safe. i mean, give me a break. the purpose of the raid from what they said was because national archives wanted to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. and my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. in fact the layer working on this was totally shocked, he said i have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden no notice, they send 20 c ....