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good morning. and welcome to "way too early." on this tuesday, august 9th. i'm jonathan lemire. thanks for being with us. it is an extraordinary day and we begin with that dramatic escalation in donald trump's legal problems and the fbi searches his estate in south florida yesterday unannounced. the former president posted just before 7:00 p.m. last night that mar-a-lago was quote currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. adding, they even broke into my safe. a source familiar with the search tells nbc news that the investigation is related to the tr...

all 50 senate democrats supported the bill with vice president harris casting the tie-breaking vote. the bill will now head to the house to where democrats also hold a razor-in majority. what does this mean for the next steps? let's get right to chad pergram live on capitol hill with the details. >> reporter: arthel, a political high wire act. all 50 democrats sticking together and then leaning on vice president harris to break the tie to pass a touchstone of president biden's legislative agenda. >> the yeas are 50, the nays are 50. the senate being equally divided, the vice presiden...

Extensive criminal history that involved human smuggling. these pursuits happen every day along the border because human smuggling is a big problem here. border patrol's rio grande sector. huge groups of migrants over the past several days, 00 in total most from central and south america. huge groups put big strains on resources. in the last six months alone a quarter million illegal crossings since october 1. overcrowding in border patrol facilities. there are mass releases underway because of that. the last thing we want to show you are these photos out of the del rio section in the state of...

>> we were getting realtime information on what was occurring in the field. it was nerve-racking because we saw in one case, agents reporting back that someone was jumping out of a window. other cases, criminals were in a car, and there was a car chase. >> the arrests occurred everywhere from new york to phoenix to california, countries like belarus, sweden, poland, the uk. >> every time we had a successful arrest, we would announce it in the room, and the whole room would erupt in cheers. it's like you score a touchdown. >> as part of the shadowcrew takedown, we arrested 28 individuals. we se...

Also used that online name to sell their father's car online. so we were able to piece together pieces from the physical world with the criminal world to ultimately identify who they were. >> it was very much a cat-and-mouse game. but how we really broke the case, albert came up with an idea of a vpn. a vpn is a virtual private network, an anonymizing service that encrypts your internet activity, which means law enforcement can't see it. so we had built up albert's reputation so much on shadowcrew that he then had the ability to very easily say to folks, hey, use the vpn. you'll never get caug...