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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 wasnt 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. ill stay with us tonight cnns chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins. caitlin i want to begin with you here. because, look, a search on the former presidents home is absolutely ...

first floor coasting predominant. that begins right now. a lower. >> a sour, and icu, this is don lemon tonight everyone. im laura coats sitting in for the great document. and we begin with major, i mean, really big news. a few hours ago we learned from former president trump directly, no less, of an fbi executing a search warrant at the mar-a-lago estate. his resort, of course, in florida. local sources saying the search is related to the handling of classified documents and were docu...

Hes always meticulous, when he was my student, he was extremely careful 50 years ago, 45 years ago, i guess. anyway, hes trying to dot every i, cross every t, and now with the special counsel hes got someone that i think is going to carry that out, and well see. >> the attorney general no doubt going to check his report card from 45 years ago. professor tribe, thank you so much for being with us. appreciate it. >> thank you. the growing questions as police investigate the murders of four unive...

That i asked one of your house colleagues here. have you had a briefing? what else can you tell us? >> i can tell you that, yes, we are in contact with the white house. but i think that getting the appropriate report, they are trying to dot every i, cross every t. they are talking to nato allies, and we continue to be in lock step and try to get the facts because this is a very serious, very serious matter. so we want to make sure and the white house is trying to make sure that they are able to ...

Would fall along with whatever point theyre actually seek to get from the judge. but from your impression, working with the afghan particular, can you imagine a judge having a bare bones cursory knowledge of whatever they wanted and saying just go ahead and do which is like there? they would have the dot every i, crossed every t, because it wouldve been a perception that this was a fishing expedition. what is your thought? >> there is no doubt, i mean, this went to the highest level to make sure...

Broke into the safe, it makes me think the american public might misconstrue this for something that was not lawfully executed. this was a lawfully executed search warrant. the idea of entering the safe would have followed along with whatever warrant they were seeking to actually get from the judge, but from your impression, i mean working with the fbi in particular, look, can you imagine a judge having a barebones cursory knowledge of whatever they wanted and saying, just go ahead and do what y...

At all. but, obviously, the court did decide to move forward with this deal -- the board did decide to move bard with deal. so i dont know thats necessarily what will underlie the court battle at this point. david: yeah. >> but, certainly, if elon musk is not just using this information as a ploy to get out of the deal or a -- to get a lower price, i think its a legitimate -- david: katie, final point. loan is an eccentric kind of guy, and the sec, the regulator in the government, dont like ecce...

The article states very clearly among other things that the whistle-blower wanted to get the information out, wanted to cross every t, dot every i, first went to the general counsel of the agency for which he works, which agency, boy the way, then gave an early heads up to the white house, whose occupant, donald trump, happens to be the subject of the allegation. so to the extent there was any early heads up, most inappropriate it seems it was given to the very person being criticized in the all...

That this report ends up in the hands of a house judiciary committee led by very, very competent people, like jerry nadler and congressman cohen from tennessee, who are prepared to find those areas that have not been addressed and either demand responses or make conclusions to begin to take the inquiry to the next step. i think thats why the president is, a, uncertain and, b, so very anxious. >> jeff, in terms of timing, the president said in the interview that he was going to submit his written...

Thought its too soon too soon. he becomes president. chris christie not grabbing that chance in 2012. let me ask you a question about the fact that jeb bush is going to release 33 years of tax returns. he seems to be preparing with his release of e-mails and release of tax returns, a transparency argument that can be he hopes, espectively used against hillary clinton should he be the nominee. >> hes trying to figure out how to get ahead of something that most people have baked into the cake abou...