i'm joined by lara trump, the former president's daughter-in-law married to eric trump. he's the former 2020 senior campaign adviser to the trump campaign and a fox news contributor. lara, very good to have you with us. i'm sure there's a lot going on in your heart and mind as you watch this unfold. we're not insensitive to that. what is your reaction to what merrick garland had to say? >> i'm kind of shocked to tell you the truth that it took three days for him to give us no information. a lot of americans were looking

my sources telling me and eric trump confirming tonight that in fact they were working if there were classified documents to get them to its proper place. former president trump was at his home in new york city with his son eric earlier today when he learned of the raid. he released a statement, he was later seen leaving trump tower. sources says he's headed to florida. fox's own laura ingle is outside of trump tower with the very latest there. >> hi, sean. as the fbi agents were rating mar-a-lago, we learned that the former president was here outside -- inside trump tower. we are outside now where of course things are relatively quiet and you mentioned those pictures of him exiting today that we got from fox news digital. that is the glimpse, a few fleeting images that we have of the 45th president leaving the high-rise and getting into an awaiting vehicle. we have also heard that he may have been going to bedminster. we are not sure. a source familiar with the raid telling fox news that fbi agents, as you mentioned, went to mar-a-lago and looked in every single office safe and grabb

eric trump and donald trump jr. are leading this organization, or at least they were during the administration, taking different roads. what are you seeing here? >> you know, look, there's a question as to whether the president is playing four dimensional chess while everyone around him is playing checkers and there's a grand strategy here. i'm not convinced they have a broader grand strategy here. it looks splashy to plead the fifth. it's probably as much a political and public relations strategy as a legal one. notwithstanding the legal points we have made here. i think there's a little more behind this than strategy. >> let me ask you about the search warrant that was executed on monday at mar-a-lago. there is the return. there's the inventory of everything that was taken. if this is so egregious, as the president said it was, should the former president make that public? >> oh, yes. he can. he can release the search warrant. he can release the inventory. he won't do so because he knows that'll undermine his clai

we have learned tonight it was a staff member at mar-a-lago that called eric trump and then eric trump who called his father to tell him about the search. the first worlds from the former president while calling into a political event, saying another day in paradise, this is a strange day. sources tell abc news the department of justice has started a grand jury investigation in may about alleged mishandling of classified information. tonight, heavily armed secret service agents stand guard at the gates of mar-a-lago. former president trump issuing a new statement, calling the search a horrible thing. tonight, what we have now learned about how this unfolded, where they searched and about pressure mounting on the attorney general merrick garland and fbi director christopher wray to explain this highly unprecedented raid. dan abrams is standing by on this, but we begin tonight with our chief washington correspondent jonathan karl leading us off. >> reporter: we're learning new details about the fbi's extraordinary raid on donald trump's mar-a-lago property in palm beach. law enforcement

now, former president trump was at his homeor in new york city with his son eric earlier todayi when he learned of the raid. he released a statement he was later seen leaving trump tower. sources says he's headed to florida boxes on lower inglisin outside of trump tower with thel veryth latest there. laura sonya, as the fbi agentsas were raiding mar a lago, we learned that the former president was here outside inside trump tower. are outside now where of course, things are relatively quiet. m and you mentioned those pictures of him exiting today that we got fromng t fox newsth digital. that is theat glimpse of a fews fleeting images that we have of the 40 foot president leaving the high-rise and getting into an awaiting vehicle. we have also heard that he h may have been going to bedminster. we're not sure a source familiar with the raid telling fox news that fbi agents, as you mentioned, went too mar a lago and looked in every single office safe and grabbed documents and boxeswi without going through them on the property that sourcing agents 70%0% sou boxes and docu. now, what happen

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this is the former president -- 2024 to the former president's son, eric trump.trump: they do not want donald trump to run and win again in 2024. >> hour correspondent, michelle fleury, has more. michelle: he has come to one day after the fbi executed a search warrant on his property in florida. these are unprecedented times. never before in american history has the house of a former esident been searched by the fbi could nonetheless, there are some in the party who say this may galvanize support ahead of the upcoming midterm election and that it could also help with fundraising. still, it raises questions about the degree of legal hot water the former president now fin himself in. one possibility for this search is that it has to d with the allegations that he removed top-secret documents from the white house and took them to his property in mar-a-lago, florida, something that is against u.s. law. remember, he is also being investigated by a congressional committee for his role in the january 6 riot. and of course, there is that case in new york involving taxes

what is eric trump saying, randi? >> reporter: he went on fox news tonight talking about this raid and he offered his own explanation to sean hannity as to why the fbi showed up at mar- a-lago in florida today. this is what he said. >> the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the national archives wanted to 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 that's been working on this was totally shocked. he said, "i have such an amazing relationship with these people and all of a sudden no notice, they sent 20 cars and 30 agents." this is just more political persecution of donald j. trump. >> there you have an explanation from eric trump. >> whether it holds water is a different story, but i suspect we'll find more information coming ahead. thank you so much. i want to bring in chris swecker, former fbi director of the criminal investigative division, also here former federal prosecutor kim wehle

here's how eric trump, his son described the search. >> the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the national archives wanted to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession, and my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. in fact, the lawyer that's been working on this was totally shocked. he goes i had such an amazing relationship with these people, and all of a sudden on no notice they send 20 cars and 30 agents. sean, i mean, this is just more political persecution of donald j. trump. >> reporter: and again, that is indicative of what we're seeing out here in terms of supporters. those who are echoing those same sentiments out here saying trump won or trump 2024. you're really seeing how this has sort of riled up the base here near the former president's private residence. >> so donald trump, he was actually the first to announce the search had happened, angrily lashing out over the fbi search calling the operation a raid. the republican party is already moving to fund-raise off the situation. cnn's gabby orr is live in

his other son eric trump had sat and taken the fifth when he was deposed in 2010 and he saeasser the fifth amendment also. >>> let's talk to the former federal prosecutor elie honig. every american citizen has a has every right to insert their fifth amendment right. listen. >> have your staff taking the fifth amendment, taking the fifth! so they are not prosecuted. when you have the man that set up the illegal server, taking the fifth, i think it's sdrasful. you see the mob takes the fifth. if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? >> that is donald trump, the politician. elie, from a legal perspective, his and said don't answer these questions. walk us through what that means. >> first of all, the hypocrisy is shocking. this is donald trump's right he can take the fifth the same as anyone else can. important to know in a civil lawsuit in new york state, if somebody takes the fifth that can actually be used against them. the jury can draw what is called an adverse inference meaning the jury in a civil case can assume the worse what his testimony might have been but

eric trump, eric trump, donald trump jr..anybody in trump's universe, they're afraid of the 6:00ordo . raid where they're in their boxer shorts and cnn's across the street. re ti guess donald trump was lu. at least he wasn't in his underwear and with a cnn camera watching him come out of my relaxium at least he wasn't t didn't reach thatha point. butint. who knows what's next? well, coming up shortly, we'll be talking to members of the trump family. tr we appreciate hearing from you tonight, jerry. thank you so much, jerry. m thanks, will . you will . all right. thist just in from fox digital'x brook syngman. a source tells fox news that tho fbi just went to maryland and looked in every single office, e his safe former president safe and grab documents and boxes without going through them on the property. so immediately leftrc the property with those boxes. the source said the agents tooke the documents to go through later once they left michelago, the source told fox news they were not being judiciousus about what they took.

"missouri, go out and vote for the eric who's been endorsed by donld trump -- eric clapton!'m a huge fan because 'wonderful tonight' was my wedding song when i married my cousin." [ laughter ] i was worried because it was said when you get covid you lose your taste for cousin jokes. [ laughter ] and by the way, this is all just stuff that happened last night usually july and august are quiet months in politics, but a lot of crazy [ bleep ] has been happening lately and because we've been off for a week, i missed a lot of it in fact, i don't have time to get to the rest of it, so to recap as quickly as possible, i'm going to have to try out a new segment called "seth recaps what he missed as quickly as possible." [ chimes ] [ cheers and applause okay, ready? here we go the justice department is looking into donald trump's actions as part of its investigation into the coup attempt on january 6th trump is preparing a legal defense and looking for a fall guy. he also said no one's gotten to the bottom of 9/11 yet matt gaetz was caught on a hot mic assuring indicted trump associa

is, they are showing them where they keep it up with the teams us keep it secure and locked up eric trump's -- trump even stopped in and swung by and said hello, next thing you know they send 30 men with a safe cracker? what are they doing? emily told the trump lawyers don't look at what we are doing, don't record what we're doing better that's not to buy the book. if you look at what hillary has done i mean she has acid washed 40,000 emails under subpoena. andrew comey comes out and he says yes, they had over 100 classified documents in her possession. and yes, they did break the law, but no prosecutor would ever touch it. then sandy burkert goes into the national archives and said didn't raise his home. two cia directors have classified information on their home computers. their homes weren't rated. fbi director took sensitive documents outside, they didn't write his home. this is bull and it's going to boomerang to big time. everybody can feel it. >> so, harold, you've heard 10 minutes of commentary, what do you -- what strikes you about this? obviously this is a very serious thing that

allowed to use our own lawyers to conduct the search first and hand over the fruits to the fbi. >> eric trumpight and lara trump also have said that their characterization of what was going on is that there was cooperation going on. they thought things were going well. if this is about the presidential records act, the archive situation, that's one thing. we are told tonight it's not about january 6th, we don't know. we don't have the official documents. to your point about hillary clinton, said hillary clinton was the last to delete an acid wash to do 2,000 emails after they were subpoenaed by congress. absently nothing has happened to hold her accountable. took antique furniture and other items from the white house. what do you make of that? there've been a number of cases that republicans in the former president are going to .2 to say that this treatment is not the same across the political aisle. >> that's the danger with what has happened here today. the fbi in many respects is being viewed as being political because of decisions being made from high up. director wray fond of telling age

eric trump does not know what his father is going to do. the question this begs is whether a release could backfire. >> look, i think a release could backfire. that's why there's an internal debate about it, and that's why they haven't done it already. remember, at the beginning of all of this, there was talk about planted evidence. ah, evidence was planted. well, what would you see on the tape? would you see fbi agents planting evidence? i don't think so. but that could backfire, because that was one of their stories early on. also, stephanie is saying, you could see hard-working fbi agents. and i think the whole point of this from the -- from the trump point of view is to show the president being a victim of an out of control government looking to get him. and so maybe they're waiting so they can put music to it, or release it at a certain time during a campaign. so he would, again, look like a victim and this would really rally the base around him. but legally, since they were asked not to tape this, it could really backfire. >> absolute

how much of it is just firefighting, eric trump throwing stuff and seen with sticks? >> maybe, we've been talking about this long enough that you know i don't think the word strategy and donald trump belong in the same sentence. he can barely play hopscotch, much less three dimensional chess. he has a long history of routinely stiffing his lawyers. usually does not get best in class attorneys to represent him. he has so many things coming at him from so many different avenues legally from the january six inquiries to the district attorney, to the new york state attorney general, to the fulton county, attorney in georgia, to this investigation now, that their heads must be spinning. the reason it is spending is because donald trump is lawless and he is a grift or and and a bitch will lawyer. all of that combines to create a perfect storm -- a lawyer who wants to represent someone, he is almost an represented at this time. >> tim, before i bring david back in for a last word, tim, one word you missed. one descriptor you missed in that list, lisa raised the point, the inc

eric trump argues his father is being unfairly targeted for political purposes vehicle is on. on.e of my father has worked so collaboratively with the poor man's vehicle in fact, the lawyers had been working another, was totally shocking vehicle he had such an amazing relationship with the people and all of a sudden with no notice, 20 cards and 30 agents? this is just more political persecution of donald j. trump. >> another source telling me that fbi agents looked in every single office and safe, grabbing documents and boxes without going through them on the property. are letting agents were not judicious about what they do. compass and a city at the time of the raid -- watch. >> there was no reason not to issue a subpoena. returnable tomorrow. so that there is no claim that trump could have destroyed anything. there should have been a subpoena, not a search warrant. if it is a search warrant, it has to have a high level of calls, demonstrating the evidence would have been destroyed. >> now, all eyes are on attorney general merrick garland to law enforcement sources told fox news

eric trump went on tv and said that biden signed off on this. know if he is just title telling him how his father used to do things but the biden administration -- >> because biden always tells the truth like i don't know what my son was doing with the chinese. do you believe him when he says he didn't know anything? he also says he doesn't -- >> i can give it up because i don't want to waste time that biden sobbed around and to take, merrick garland, this is what we should be doing now. >> but should he know? is the president he's in charge. speak. >> the doj is supposed to function separately. this judge by the way, who donated to president obama entered job bush, now he has to have his information scrubbed from the internet, he and his family have been threatened. >> tell that to the supreme court -- >> as a judge i'm shocked. a lot here about at this table is that it is only democrats that are crazy and unhinged violent types. we have evidence that's happened in a day, that this man has to go into hiding. we heard also from the attorney who

donald trump was in new york, at the trump tower in new york, but his son eric was there. is description. >> the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the national archives wanted to cooperate, whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. and my father has worked so collaboratively with them for months. >> the last part from eric trump, he said his father has worked with them collaboratively for months. this dispute goes back to a couple months after trump left office, back to may of 2021. a little more than a month ago, you had ableants at mar-a-lago, they were trying to get documents back. what got to the point after months and months of trying to negotiate this, that the fbi decided we are at an impasse, we need a search warrant? >> that's really the yquestion. we don't know so much about this, but we do know what this investigation was. ni initially, it was the national archives being concerned about the documents the trump people had after the presidency at mar-a-lago. what's interesting is we have talked before about 15 boxes at mar-a

here's eric trump. ter around the notion that the trump people would release the surveillance tapes from mar-a-lago. let's listen to that, and we'll talk about it. >> do you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country? >> absolutely, sean. at the right time. >> so, that, like, set off a frenzy around, like, that's what -- that's something that got picked up by everybody in trump's world. trump is going to release is surveillance tapes. talk about that, tracy, what you think is the risk and potential rewards, whether donald trump really would ever release the security footage from inside mar-a-lago that would show what the fbi actually did in its search and who had access to that confidential and classified material. >> so, i think, first, i want to talk about the risks. the risks that releasing that video could have is actually directly to law enforcement, which really is what we've seen a lot of politicians talking about, kind of trying to rally up t

eric trump yesterday on hannity says he wants his father to run for president dear lara trump on "foxiends" first this morning said it's highly likely that trump will run again. they are saying come -- they were much more vague before this and i wonder if it's going to speed up the announcement to before the midterm election paired when trump is angry, like he has right now, he acts and he likes to stick it to the people who he thinks are sticking it to them. >> kayleigh: we shall see, that is a million-dollar question, carly. coming up the white house's attempt to tell americans the president is pretty good del michael baird will introduce you to dark brandon, that's next. do you have a life insurance policy you no longer need? now you can sell your policy - even a term policy - for an immediate cash payment. we thought we had planned carefully for our retirement. but we quickly realized we needed a way to supplement our income. if you have $100,000 or more of life insurance, you may qualify to sell your policy. don't cancel or let your policy lapse without finding out what it's wort

eric trump, his son, said he was the one who warned him and eric trump is the whun sone who said thenformation was related. and the former president saying it's prcritically motivated. and someone the plresident has soured on when you look at pointing out what's happening here talking about how the search warrant was actually carried out, executed and granted. i will say when it comes to documents left at mar-a-lago, after there were over a dozen boxes sent back to the national archives, we do believe, based on what we're hearing, about a meeting that happened two months ago where investigators actually went to mar-a-lago and actually met with trump's attorneys one of those is jay bratt, he's head of the control section at the justice department. he's one present at this meeting, we're today, back in early june, they believe. they met with trump's attorneys. i'm told they were shown a room that had boxes of documents there. days after they left mar-a-lago, they sent a letter to trump's attorneys asking them to further secure the room, given the information it contained. what happened

and according to court documents, eric trump pleaded the 5th and refuse to answer questions over 500 times. so bottom line, a lot is going on here, but there's a lot of commotion outside as we're waiting to see when donald trump will leave from this very critical deposition that he's facing in this investigation by the attorney general's office here in new york. now it sounds certainly like a tedious proceedings. going ahead take gabriel. how. how does this all play into his potential run for presidency in 2024? well donald trump is not declared that he's going to run for president, but he's certainly given a lot of indications that he's strongly considering it. it's really, anybody's guessed he's very unpredictable as we are very much know now. but he is using this as to rally his supporters using the raid by the f. b. i of his home in florida to rally his supporters. and he's basically saying, this is another sign in his words, that deep state washington trying to investigate me and take me out a potentially running again in 2024. in fact, there's already been a campaign like video

eric trump. unbelievable times. thank you for being with us >> when we come back, more outrages hypocrisy, kamala harris, we've got the tape. also information about the mar-a-lago raid you're not going to get anywhere else as we check in with trump attorney alina haba and greg jarrett straight ahead. and only 24-hour steroid free spray. while other allergy sprays take hours astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can... astepro and go. ♪♪ >> sean: all right, far left democrats continue to use the fbi's mar-a-lago raid to lauren more baseless smears and slander against the 45th president including the ever struggling vice-president kamala harris who said this on friday about the mar-a-lago raid. take a look. >> i will say, as a former prosecutor but as a citizen of our nation any attacks on law enforcement are completely unacceptable and any so-called leader who engages in rhetoric that in any way suggests that law enforcement should be exposed to that kind of danger is irresponsible and can result in dangerous

. >> (hablan en inglÉs) >>> eric trump dijo que mÁs de 30 agentes del fbi se presentaron ademÁs de laconfrontar hasta 10 aÑos en cÁrcel es un delito mayor y te convierte con alguien que no es elegible para poder correr para ninguna oficina federal eso significa la presidencia el senado cÁmara de representantes. >> ni el fbi ni el departamento de justicia han ofrecido declaraciÓn la primera historia en la reciente del paÍs ejecutada en la casa de un expresidente. >> sÍ, la verdad que es un momento muy extraÑo el que se ha vivido estÁ llegando mÁs informaciÓn desde la trinchera trump por ejemplo una vocera confirmÓ una versiÓn que apareciÓ primero en the washington post en donde el departamento de justicia habÍa tenido varios encuentros con los representantes legales confirmando que sÍ habÍa habido interacciÓn que incluso en un momento el exmandatario se reuniÓ con uno de ellos sin ser interrogado. >> rogelio no estarÍa relacionada con la investigaciÓn sobre el ataque al 6 de enero al capitolio? >>> no, no tiene que ver, aunque esto es extra oficial porque no ha hablado ni el f b i dice

host: eric trump on fox. according to "the washington post," the search by the fbi is related to the national archives requesting under the president's record act, documents from the white house, official records of the president's tenure. the washington post reports that it was not immediately clear on monday why fbi agents would conduct a search related to the documents many months after the national archives received 15 boxes of material. a sitting president is the top classification authority in the government, giving that person far more leeway than most other employees in deciding what is and is not classified. advisers speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss his actions have said that he mishandled documents for years largely by ripping them up. it describes the packing process at the end of his term in which the president and his family took boxes and material that should have gone to the national archives. the archives only learned that some of the material was missing after it tried to loc

eric. and that's not on the eve of the primary, donald trump announced that he was endorsing eric.

inside trump world there are discussions about whether to release surveillance video of the search eric trump was asked earlier this week if the footage would be released >> absolutely, sean. at the right time. >> reporter: meanwhile, in new york today, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of the trump organization, pleaded guilty to tax fraud charges, admitting he took $1.7 million in untaxed perks, including free rent, school tuition, and multiple mercedes automobiles. weisselberg agreed to pay nearly $2 million in taxes and fines and serve five months in jail as a part of the plea deal, weisselberg is expected to provide information about those business dealings, but not about his former boss. >> kristen, if we can circle back to the search of mar-a-lago, the justice department has some real concerns about the release -- potential release of surveillance video of the search >> reporter: that's right, lester. a senior doj official says they are extremely concerned about the safety of agents whose faces might be exposed by this video, calling the danger real. still, a source

eric trump says his father will absolutely release the tapes at what he calls the right time. now, remember, this is the video of the search itself from the trump's own security cameras. this is not the surveillance video that had been subpoenaed by investigators and reportedly showed activity around the boxes that contained classified documents, activity so alarming to law enforcement that they pushed for the search warrant. >> katelyn polantz is live outside of the courthouse in west palm beach. what should we be expecting here? >> reporter: well, brianna, the focus is back on the justice department this morning as we await what they will say in court to this judge to argue to keep secret this affidavit. now, they already have laid out several serious reasons that they believe there should be secrecy over the details of the investigation that are part of the court record already. they've said that this investigation involves highly classified material, that there are witnesses involved, they want to protect both ones they have spoken to already and also in the future. there's

. >> here's eric trump -- you worked with all these people.mp last night. >> my father never got so much as a speeding ticket in his life. my father always kept clippings, press clippings. he would have pictures, articles, notes from us. he had boxes, all right when he moved out of the white house. how about the benghazi scandals? you want to talk about scandals that were never investigated. >> jeez. >> you have counselled this person, donald trump. >> yes. >> we have heard from experts tonight this might just be just about the potential illegal use of these documents. what do you think was his mind set? what was he telling his current lawyers based on your understanding of how he thinks when they would have definitely toll him, the doj means business, you got give it all back. >> first of all, when the feds come, you know it's never a good thing, because generally an indictment and jail that follows. the feds don't make that mistake. they end up having the ability to not just seize the documents that are in that warrant, but there's always ad

this is the former president's son, eric trump. nt to do is they want to get donald trump in the do it for one reason. they do not want donald trump to run and win again. this isn't the first time trump has found himself at the centre of a legal battle. you'll remember scenes like this from january sixth last year — the capitol riots. trump is accused of inciting an �*insurrection�* through his unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud. that investigation is ongoing and could lead to criminal charges. then — election interference in georgia. a phone call he made to the state's top election official telling him to find more than 11,000 votes is the centre of that investigation. his financial affairs are also being investigated by lawyers — particularly related to tax and bank fraud allegations. this is a professor of political science, richard pape. the issues of legality and political volatility are closely intermeshed here. so, it really doesn't make sense to talk about this in a narrow legal framework, and it's because of the incredib

justice department also sw voicing concerns about the safety of its agents after comments from eric trump earlier this week. >> do you still have the surveillance tape, is that correct? are you allowed to share that with the country >> absolutely, sean, at the right time >> reporter: meanwhile, in new york, the former cfo for the trump organization, allen weisselberg, plead guilty to tax fraud charges. he admitted taking nearly $2 million in rent, free tuition and luxury cars. he did agree to cooperate in the criminal case against the company but is not compelled to testify against former president trump. and that trial starts in hlate october. >> susan mcguinness starting us off, thank you >>> she flew to d.c. on a private jet to stop the steal on january 6 she admitted to entering the k capitol that day and kicking media equipment outside the building her co-defendants have been sentenced to two weeks and two months in prison respectively. >>> a dramatic scene in oklahoma a woman in custody managed to slip out of handcuffs, grab an ar-15 and open fire on police. >> reporter: an oklahoma

the president's son, eric trump said as many as 30 agents raided the former president's mar-a-lago home. mike? >> sources tell fox news that the fbi raid of former trump's palm beach home is related to the taking of classified information from the white house upon leaving january 20th of last year. the national archives says there were 15 boxes of what they believe to be presidential records, noting they must be preserved. fbi agents went to mar-a-lago looking in every single office in the president's safe, and grabbed documents and boxes without reviewing them there on property. the source telling fox they took boxes and documents to review once they left mar-a-lago, and were told they were not being judicious about what they took. ofox has learned former president trump was at trump tower in new york city when he learned the raid was taking place in florida. the former president saying in his public statement, they broke his safe. obviously he's quite upset with the raid taking place there today. will? >> will: all right, mike. thank you there for the latest. as you heard tonight, now

we do know that the former president's son, eric trump, who i think was largely engage in many of the business activities when he came in for his deposition in this investigation, he pled the 5th, i believe over 500 times. >> let's also talk about the search warrant this week at the 2 cases know kind of unfolding at the same time. we really shouldn't expect the department of justice will release the details of the wind isn't right. that's not normal that they would do that. is that right? >> that's exactly right. so again, this is up a little this is a legal process is not a political process in a political process. we're used to getting a lot of information and finding out maybe even seen people testified publicly. but this is a legal process in criminal investigations. don't happen in front of the public. and so i think it was a comment today from a high ranking department of justice official basically saying, i know you'll understand, but we don't comment on this now, of course, the former president trump, he was served with a search warrant. and so he has least some information th

it >> reporter: multiple sources say the investigation is connected to classified documents son, eric trump. >> the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the national archives want to corroborate whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession >> reporter: the former president announced the search himself in a lengthy statement, attempting to set his own narrative. the weaponization of the justice system, he wrote, then made a reference to what happened, speaking by phone for a campaign event last night >> another day in paradise this was a strange day. >> reporter: and this morning, he posted a campaign-style video the justice department is pursuing a separate investigation into january 6th. last month attorney general merrick garland telling lester holt that an election would not affect the department's efforts >> we pursue justice without fear or favor. we intend to hold everyone, anyone who is criminally responsible for the events surrounding january 6th or any attempt to interfere with the lawful transfer of power from one administration to another account

and ivanka earlier this month eric trump testified two years ago. court records show he invoked his fifth amendment right more than 500 times over 6 hours. investigators want to know if the trump organization improperly altered the value of its hotels, golf clubs, and holdings to gain financially with lenders and on taxes today mr. trump claimed that separate investigation, the search warrant executed monday by the fbi in florida, was a tipping point in his decision against self-incrimination if there was any question in my mind, the raid of my home mar-a-lago on monday by the fbi, just two days prior to this deposition wiped out any uncertainty. a federal official says the fbi carried out orderly, court approved search from about 9:00 to 6:30 monday and wore plai clothes, not blue fbi windbreakers typically associated with a raid fbi director chris wray declined to discuss the investigation but did respond when asked about threats to agents from angry trump supporters. >> violence against law enforcement is not the answer no matter what anybody is u

questions from the attorney general's office in an ongoing investigation into family business practices eric trump, however, invoked the fifth more than 500 times when he testified two years ago meanwhile, still a lot of questions surrounding the search and seizure at mar-a-lago earlier this week. that, of course, part of a separate federal investigation and there does seem to be mounting pressure now even from within the department of justice for attorney general merrick garland to say something about why that was carried out we are hearing, of course, from both democrats and republicans as well. all anxious to hear some kind of word from the department of justice about why fbi agents were called in to this point, though, we have heard nothing from them. >> especially given the timing with the upcoming midterms and potential announcement from former president trump thank you, jay >>> new signs that red hot inflation is finally cooling just overnight gas prices fell below an average of $4 a gallon nationwide and wall street cheered a lower than expected inflation numbers. the dow soared 535 points

both loyal to trump. but eric grighton says i'm the only trump candidate. ric grighton, you zbluz they're running a very dishonest campaign, and it's not just me who said that. president trump came in last night and said eric smitd is running a very dishonest campaign. >> are you going to vote for him? he will lose the seat. he's abused his wife and kid and quit on the people of the state. >> if you don't follow missouri politics closely, he was the governor, and he resigned after implications of misconduct. they believe it's much more likely the democrats might be able to win that seat. >> absolutely. this is a race -- the republican establishment tried to win this off. you had two call for him to drop out of the race. and like mario said a minute ago, this is just the latest in a string of races where the trump-backed candidate has given democrats a really chance at holding on to the senate. hugely consequential. >> that's why we count them. going to be fun counting the votes tonight. >>> ahead for us, new details out of the white house on president biden'

all 3 of trumps kids or 3 of them, yvonne could trump don junior, and eric trump have all been interviewed already. and now this is the combination of this investigation. it's been going on since 2019 and it's not the only challenge legal challenge he faces talk us through some of the others. yeah, i mean this one he is is a civil case. so it's, he faces potential fines or a settlement perhaps that could potentially ruin his company if the, if the fines or the civil a settlement is large enough. so he, this is a very treacherous period for donald trump, but also he's giving a deposition right now. and that means he's legally bound to tell the truth to the best of his knowledge. if he intentionally does not tell the truth in his deposition, he could be prosecuted for that. so he's facing all sorts of a landmine, if you will, of potential legal problems with just this case. not to mention of course the f b, i rating his home in florida within the last 36 hours or so that we've been hearing about not to mention. in another case, him having to turn over a judge saying yes to turn over his tax

host: eric trump, the son of the former president talking about what was in the boxes that the fbi took. according to news reports, the fbi descended upon mar-a-lago club because this was part of an investigation related to the national archives records. you will recall, president trump did not hand over all of those records when he left the white house. but he did -- the national archives did retrieve several boxes. they are saying now they are still missing items. from "the washington post" it was not immediately clear why fbi agents would conduct a search related to the documents many months after the 15 boxes of materials were retrieved. a sitting president is the top classification authority in the government, giving that person far more leeway than most government employees in deciding what is and isn't classified. advisors speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss trump's actions say he has mishandled documents for years, largely by ripping them up. they describe an ad hoc packing process at the end of his term in which the president and his family took boxes and material

>> is it eric trump? >> he'll tell you after they win. but that's not really the absurd part. 're both claiming it. >> of course they are. that's what he wants. >> they're both like i'm the eric. what's it worth? give me the last name. >> i'm not sure if he was playing -- if he was being too cute by half or if he actually couldn't remember their last names. that i haven't figured out. what i will tell you it is absurd that one of those erics running, disgraced former governor who had to resign and has had horrible accusations of abuse -- of physical abuse brought out by his ex-wife, is actually tied for first place. could literally win today. and we go back to this idea that there's all of these flawed candidates. it's got to be driving the republican governor association, it's got to be driving mitch mcconnell crazy, that there were all of these republicans who could have easily won most of these races. and instead, they lost primaries and the ones that are now running are people that, frankly, make it that much harder for mitch mcconnell to be the majority leader or for there

eric trump argues his father is being unfairly targeted. >> my father has been working with them for months. they sent between the cars and 30 agents this is more political prosecution of donald j. trump. >> brooke: fbi agentss looked in every safe without going through the documents on the property and were not judicious about what they took. trump was in -- no need for. watch. >> there was no reason not to issue a subpoena, returnable tomorrow so there is no claim that trump could have destroyed anything, this should have been a subpoena, not a search warrant. if it is search warrants, it has to have a high level of cause demonstrating the evidence would have been destroyed. >> all eyes are on merrick garland who they say knew about this. >> merrick garland almost certainly signed off on this, hard to determine a decision of this magnitude would be made without his knowledge and approval. >> brooke: the white house tells me it did not receive advance notice about the raid at mar-a-lago. >> carley: let's turn to kevin corke who has the latest from washington. >> kevin: the fbi raids

he was a reaction is ari fleischer and lara trump. eric was on last night.standing is when this raid happened, and it was a raid, that the president's lawyers were there and they were not allowed to accompany the fbi as they went through their search. and i've also been told by other sources that they ordered that the security cameras at mar-a-lago be shut off? is that true? >> i'm not sure about the security cameras, but it is my understanding as well that no one was allowed to accompany them throughout the time that they were in mar-a-lago, kind of going through any and everything, as you've laid out tonight, that they want to, taking whatever they wanted from mar-a-lago. it of course was a raid. it is ridiculous for anyone to call it anything other than that. i don't know what you call a bunch of people unannounced breaking into your home like this and taking whatever they want for themselves. that is exactly the definition right there, but i want to go back to something that mark levin pointed out. the fact that anybody is trying to claim that joe biden

eric dorsey in the gop nomination. how are they reacting to the statement from trump? i'm the real eric? phanie, it's just a baffling situation here in missouri. former president trump has injected even more chaos into an already heated and tight and crowded gop primary. all these candidates are trying to replace senator roy blunt in the senate. what you, heard and what we saw today was really former president trump trying to flex his muscles, he started off the day by saying he was going to endorse someone, sometime today. several hours went by before you sent out this message that you just said was really about, eric in all caps. eric schmitt earlier in the day, he was welcome in the the idea that former president trump will be able to endorse him, and one of his endorsement. he now says the endorsement was for him. and eric greitens, who is the embattled former governor, he resigned in disgrace 18 months after he was inaugurated. he's facing allegations of sexual abuse, domestic abuse. i asked him specifically, because it is all this chaos was happening, i was at an air greitens event

eric trump loyalist a lot of them. does that change the way that republicans senate operates?rship team to run again. the fear there is that you get people like rick scott, the senator from florida to move into leadership around him if it erodes our people model that you just referred to. more of the establishment republican. >> bret: thoughts? >> it feels like 2010. there picking candidates, we haven't picked a wish to run yet but you mention rob portman. their leading. he won that seat 20 years ago that's a big difference. it's a real risk for donald trump, because a lot of these candidates are people who donald trump pushed and people listen to them. if republicans lose the senate second time because of donald trump selected candidates assigned to be good to him heading into 2024. >> bret: i mentioned that the g.o.p. house criticism is that mitch mcconnell is bending over backwards for you these bar bipartisan deals and leaving them as they are running for reelection giving president joe biden's when max. i'm tired about the house g.o.p. memos stomach members. >> on the big