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Something that is both shocking and, yet, not surprising. talk about it. >> well, you know, joe, we went through this in the last hour, and i think its the kind of thing that bares repeating. when you heard this happened last night, it was surprising. no one -- a lot of cases, when you have raids -- this is obviously not a raid, technically speaking -- but something that comes as a surprise to the news media, at least, youll often have indication a thing like this is going to happen. the press w...

They were investigating this and this criminal investigation was ongoing. so thats a little window into what may be going on on the investigation side. we also have learned from our sources a little bit about what has been going on on the trump world side of things. until this week, advisers to the former president did not really seem to believe this investigation was very active at this time. they seemed to believe that there was quite a bit of silence there and that meant it could be stalled. ...

Convicted by the senate which republicans declined to do in sufficient numbers after january 6th. now, the competing principle is equal justice under law. even if you believe a president cant be indicted while in office an ex-president is not above the law. now, for what its worth, smaller fry has been prosecuted for destroying presidential records. the national archives website lists a dozen examples from 1916 to 2019. he served 21 months in prison. richard harder faced two years in prison. but...

Youre right, that its really hard to imagine, especially given what we have seen, within the doj, over the past, you know, several years, that they did not do this without it being buttoned up and beyond. just the national archives or the documents that he took, unless its really relevant to a larger sense. >> and i do think the specificity of the raid, knowing to look in the safe, is somebody who is cooperating, somebody who knows who is close to the trump circle and know where is they should b...

Unauthorized. "raid" was used. this was a court ordered subpoena. i know that. you dont go to the most intrusive methed of investigation when other methods would work. >> martha: so why do it this way. >> number 1, theyre trying to project theres activity goes on with the january 6 investigation. theres a lot of people in the democratic base that think that garland is not being aggressive enough. theyre worried he a firmed a barr memo that said there had to be high level sign-off before they inv...

But overwhelmingly the majority of protesters with flags, with signs, a caravan of trucks making their way up and down the road in front of mar-a-lago. so this is something that has really riled up his base. i see it here. we saw last night and still today, there are some supporters that are very vocal about the fbi executing that search warrant. we know, as caitlin laid out, there are still a lot of unanswered questions. but we also know that according to trumps attorney, they did take some doc...

And, on the heels of learning that the administration has virtually doubled the size of the irs. people are concerned about them being targeted as well. look, i hope this is done for all of the right reasons. if they needed to find valuable records and information that they doubted. but, the important thing right now is answering a lot of the unanswered questions. not just from the doj and the fbi. i believe it is also important to hear from the biden administration, who knew what about this rai...

Donald trump claimed a safe was broken into. heres our correspondent, richard galpin. fbi investigators focused here, at donald trumps home in florida. no doors kicked down, but several boxes reportedly containing official papers taken away. that means the most famous conservative politician in the united states, a former president, likely to be now a candidate for president, is being investigated seriously for a crime. that is unprecedented. donald trump was reportedly in new york at the time, ...

24 to 48 hours after this raid people are going to try to link back to what happened at mar-a-lago? >> yeah, it could be. we just dont know. i mean, thats the thing about fbi investigations and department of justice investigations. there is so much that we wont know for sometime. you know, hopefully there will be a time relatively soon where more information will be available. were just not going to be able to see it for a little bit because we dont know exactly where this investigation is movin...

Department is commenting. donald trump claimed a safe was broken into. heres our correspondent, richard galpin. fbi investigators focused here, at donald trumps home in florida. no doors kicked down, but several boxes reportedly containing official papers taken away. that means the most famous conservative politician in the united states, a former president, likely to be now a candidate for president, is being investigated seriously for a crime. that is unprecedented. donald trump was reportedly...