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Merrick garland, the attorney general, and the fbi director for christopher wray -- >> sean: they would have have to have signed off on this, you agree with that, correct? >> absolutely. no agent or official at the fbi is going to undertake a rate of this magnitude on a former president of the united states without going to the individuals at the very top. thats garland and christopher wray. >> sean: lets talk about two other cases, professor dershowitz and i will get your point of view on this ...

"new york times," and author of the upcoming book, "confident man: the making of donald trump and the breaking of america" which goes on sale in october, is also with us. former communication director alyssa farah griffin, and former federal prosecutor, shan wu. the president says this has never happened to a president before. of course it hasnt because weve never had a president in this position before. we can say that, right sham? can we talk about this search and how much -- how far up the ch...

Think its gonna be? i wouldnt have come close, to a raid. the fbis gonna raid his home and spend most of the day there like they did not rudy giulianis place and michael cohens. thats not where i thought they were. >> think about all the other things that are going on with him right now. the reason that he may be in new york and may not have been a florida or new jersey when this happened that we believe hes beginning hes preparing to give a sworn deposition in new york attorney generals investi...

The FBI declared war Monday on American citizens when they raided former President Donald Trump's home, according to Dr. Sebastian Gorka.

Giving the public all this information, and creating all this public pressure including criminal liability around all that. this is been the quietest of all the investigations surrounding trump and its the one that resulted in an fbi raid in mar-a-lago today. all the other ones seemed more serious but this is this is quite a day. >> rachel, that recitation leaves me which of the trump homes or offices will be rated next by whom? we are on raid watch now on the trump properties. >> it is amazing,...

Elliott since you have been in a position that i havent, which is youve been on the prosecution side. where you are building a case. and you sent out -- or you apply for a warrant from a judge. it is possible of, aside from the fact that it is mar-a-lago i hear what you are saying it is a lot of people, it is possible that the former president they did put out that statement. which i will talk about in one second. that maybe we wouldnt have known. because it is not a doj or fbi, they dont do thi...

Forth an agreement that the former president would continue to hand over documents as they found them. >> jackie almany, investigations reporter for "the washington post." again, i know youre in the middle of ongoing reporting on this story, which of course you and your colleagues helped break in the first place. call us back in the course of this hour as you learn more. obviously were going to be covering this as closely as we possibly can. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right, i want to bring...

Evidence of other crimes, what happens to that information? is that also equally sort of in the possession and usable by the justice department? but also is it unusual that for the specific crime of mishandling classified information you would see a tactic as aggressive as a search warrant as opposed to just a subpoena, you would see a raid of this magnitude, you would see a former president not afforded, you know, informal deference for choice of needs. mishandling of information does get prose...

Bold enough to come after me. and so donald trump can be surprised today that merrick garland sent the fbi raid into donald trumps home. >> absolutely. merrick garland is the epitome of the kind of man that donald is contemptuous of. so it never occurred to him that donald would have the intestinal fortitude to -- will not go after him but to do his job quite honestly and hold donald accountable. it also serves as a reminder that donald trump is a private citizen, and this may be the very first ...

She should have been prosecuted then. >> sean: are going to leave it right there -- all right, thank you both. governor ron desantis has now tweeted out the raid on mar-a-lago is yet escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the regimes political opponents while people like hunter biden get treated with kid gloves. now the regime is getting another 87,000 irs agents to wield against its adversaries. banana republic, he writes. we have g.o.p. leader -- we will get to that in a s...