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The FBI raid Trump’s home was reportedly focused on documents Trump may have taken with him from the to Mar-A-Lago after leaving office. 

Whats led to this point. now, kelly odonnell reports for nbc news tonight that after the warrant was obtained but before it was served the fbi notified the secret service today they were going to come to mar-a-lago today, this morning, in order to execute this search warrant. former president trump himself tonight confirmed in an online statement that the raid had taken place. he noted in this statement that he felt aggrieved, i guess youd call it, by the search. more interestingly he also noted...

So at least if he we believe his word, we know that was part of it. i mean such is the nature of this very unique former president that he is literally hard to narrow down the potential federal crimes, which potential federal investigation this might pertain to. its not like you hear a raid on donald trumps house and you think oh, that investigation. you have to narrow it down. the former president is at least potentially implicated in a criminal investigation into sending forged sets of fake el...

Ken delaney thank you as. always frank figliuzzi is a sick national security analyst. he joins us now. frank i want you to pull the curtain back for us and give us a sense of what was necessary on the part of the fbi in order to pull off this raid? >> -- first, as can alluded to this is done in secrecy. you want a very close team, its not something you discuss at the water cooler with your squad. in fact, its unclear right now as we are not sure with this is about, and it could be a multiple thi...

Offense. so poignant in point to here, the raid in the search warrant may have produced documents not just about classified information, but also about trumps role in january 6th. thats a time honored law enforcement tradition that, youre going to someones home, pursuant to a search warrant, and if you are lawfully there, and you are lawfully executed a search warrant and you see other evidence in plain view, about other crimes, that is fair game. you get to use that evidence. so, if youre trump...

Resigning the presidency after investigations revealed evidence that president nixon committed crimes. in order to obtain a search warrant of donald trumps home investigators had to convince a federal judge that they have probable cause that evidence of a crime could be found in the home of donald trump. that the only way to obtain that evidence was through an unannounced raid. at 6:52 pm this evening, donald trump released a written statement saying, my beautiful home mar-a-lago in palm beach, ...

Why is it that the political persecution only goes one way in this country? >> sean: struck a little bit about what you are being told. what was the purpose for this raid? >> sean, the purpose from the raid from what they said was because the national archives wanted to, you know, corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. in fact, the lawyer thats been working on this was totally shocked. he said i h...

Inside the justice department over the last few years, and i just wanted to ask if -- if any of your reporting in recent months, in recent weeks on this classified documents investigation suggested that it was leading towards some dramatic action like this fbi raid today? is it your sense from your reporting that this investigation is very serious, that this action today is some indication about where the investigation might be going? >> so the raid is a surprise to me, but a government investig...

State Rep. Anthony Sabatini made a statement calling for Florida "sever all ties with DOJ immediately" following the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.

Not the white house, the biden white house, knew this was happening today, that there was going to be an fbi search of the former presidents home? >> reporter: its a major development and there are big questions at the white house about who was aware of this. we were told most officials were not aware of this, that they found out when trump confirmed the raid had happened. major questions for whether or not president biden himself knew. we dont have reporting on that front specifically. and weve...