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good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 9th. im jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trumps legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my ...

all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? lets get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president bidens legislativ...

Extensive criminal history that involved human smuggling. these pursuits happen every day along the border because human smuggling is a big problem here. border patrols rio grande sector. huge groups of migrants over the past several days, 00 in total most from central and south america. huge groups put big strains on resources. in the last six months alone a quarter million illegal crossings since october 1. overcrowding in border patrol facilities. there are mass releases underway because of t...

>> we were getting realtime information on what was occurring in the field. it was nerve-racking because we saw in one case, agents reporting back that someone was jumping out of a window. other cases, criminals were in a car, and there was a car chase. >> the arrests occurred everywhere from new york to phoenix to california, countries like belarus, sweden, poland, the uk. >> every time we had a successful arrest, we would announce it in the room, and the whole room would erupt in cheers. its l...

Also used that online name to sell their fathers car online. so we were able to piece together pieces from the physical world with the criminal world to ultimately identify who they were. >> it was very much a cat-and-mouse game. but how we really broke the case, albert came up with an idea of a vpn. a vpn is a virtual private network, an anonymizing service that encrypts your internet activity, which means law enforcement cant see it. so we had built up alberts reputation so much on shadowcrew ...

Crime section in washington, d.c. >> kim had a very challenging job in that she had to take all this information and put it in a way where we could convince a jury, judges, and others that this case should be prosecuted. >> it was exciting, and it was something we needed to figure out how to investigate. it was all new territory. so in the bunker, there was a large room with computer screens where they were monitoring the activity on shadowcrew. >> the agents that not only had a visual of the so...

Knew that law enforcement was behind the shadowcrew organization, it was over. each of these individuals likely had a stash of counterfeit identity documents, and they could disappear in a moments time forever. >> if we didnt execute the takedown perfectly, we would blow the whole case. were honored to have you on campus for the official visit. aflac! coach saban, how is aflacs program different from health insurance? well aflac gives you money directly, for things health insurance doesnt cover....