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This, but we begin tonight with our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: were learning new details about the fbis extraordinary raid on donald trumps mar-a-lago property in palm beach. law enforcement sources tell abc news that 45 minutes before the fbi showed up, the local fbi field office in miami gave the secret service team at mar-a-lago a heads-up. the sources say the secret service agents did not notify anybody on the mar-a-lago staff until just as the ...

It gives them a point of opposition to rally around. it may motivate some democrats to show up, which is why i think one of the big questions out of this news is sort of what does this mean for donald trumps political calculations of this short-term moment. we see him utilizing the raid as a way to immediately raise money, juice energy inside his base. that statement he put out yesterday, i mean, that was completely crafted as a base rallying statement, this notion that the state is persecuting ...

If you have the fbi going in and searching the home and the business of a former president, how serious is this? >> yeah, lets not be distracted, joe. it is very serious. first of all, let me point out, two branches of government are involved in this decision, right? you wouldnt let a pitcher call balls and strikes. it wouldnt make sense. so the justice department here, its prosecutors and fbi agents, go to the judicial branch of government, to what the supreme court called a neutral and detache...

>> its got to be really high, joe. this goes to the top levels. merrick garland had to sign off on this. the alternative would have been issue a subpoena. they could have done that. but they did not trust donald trump to turn the documents over. they obviously thought documents would be destroyed or hidden, so they went in to get them. i know donald trump is saying that this is a raid, but thats a gross exaggeration. first off, my office and local law enforcement, they were not informed in advan...

The secret service was not involved in executing the search warrant and a representative, a lawyer why they said theyre cooperating with the department of justice and the fbi. there is a fair amount of video surveillance at mar-a-lago and in all likelihood the fbi that was here would have also videotaped and taken some pictures of their work to eventual lu show what happened and potentially to defend themselves. as you know the president has used the term raid, that he was raided at mar-a-lago. ...

Journal branch to authorize a search warrant. so i think the word raid and kerry is right, it is a loaded word. it makes it sound lawless. fbi agents were legally present because the judge said they could be. >> chuck, the former president said they cracked his safe. is going through someones safe common practice? >> well, think of it this way. if you have a search warrant for my house suspected of leading a stolen car ring, no, you cant look in the safe and the refrigerator. you wont find a sto...

Or favor. no comment from the attorney general but possible we may hear something. it is unprecedented, high profile. hard for the f.b.i. or d.o.j. not to say anything publicly. >> dana: the fifth floor of the justice department where the decisions are made. no doubt theyre thinking about this and waiting for answers. david, appreciate it. >> bill: in the meantime here in new york president trump lashing out at law enforcement for the unprecedented move. david lee miller continues our team cover...

NY Dem. Rep. Jerry Nadler, the House Judiciary Committee chairman who helped bring impeachment against former President Donald Trump, cheered the FBI's raid of Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.

Berger didnt serve any jail time or have clearance permanently removed. he was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor. it is a disconnect to see this type of heavy-handed raid occurring. there is finally the question of why? the trump family insists that it has said they could go through boxes, go through material upon request. somebody is obviously lying here. hard to believe a judge signed off on this if the f.b.i. said we can go in there with a subpoena with no problem. the assumption is there was...

Investigation, this collection of documents from mar-a-lago, but that may not be enough to prompt a criminal investigation and an fbi raid. there may be other criminal statutes that are coming into play here because what we know about the presidential records act during the trump administration was lots of people complained about it. people sued over it, people tried to say -- including the national archives, warning trump and his administration, you might not be handling records appropriately, ...