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[0] New details about the FBI raid on President Trump's home have come to light.
[1] They pretty much just handed me the warrant when they were done.
[2] DOJ sources claim the search was prompted by a confidential informant.
[3] I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor -in -Chief John Bickley.
[4] It's Thursday, August 11th, and this is Morning Wire.
[5] With all the controversy surrounding the FBI's search of Trump's residents, more legal questions are being raised.
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[7] where the DOJ has lied, has spied, has ignored the boundaries of the First Amendment, and has really engaged in partisan behavior.
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[20] As the dust continues to settle from the stunning FBI raid on Donald Trump's private residence, new information is offering a clearer picture on what took place and how it could shape the political landscape for years to come.
[21] Here with the latest on how the president and his team are responding and how the raid could impact midterm elections is Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips.
[22] So Cabot, we'll get to the political fallout, but first, a lot more information has come to light.
[23] What did we learn in the last 24 hours?
[24] The big development yesterday was that FBI source has revealed that the raid was based largely on information provided to the FBI by an informant who reportedly had knowledge of specific classified materials on the property, as well as details of where to find them.
[25] That's according to a Newsweek report, which also says that the FBI intentionally waited until Trump was gone to conduct the raid in an attempt to keep the whole operation more low profile, which obviously failed in a major way.
[26] One DOJ source reportedly called it a, quote, spectacular backfire.
[27] We also now know that their search was focused mainly on three rooms within the residence, including the master bedroom, an office, and a storage room, which seems to confirm that the FBI knew exactly where they wanted to look.
[28] But according to Trump's team, the agents even rummaged through Melania's closet as part of their search.
[29] And one more big wrinkle is that DOJ sources now claim that Attorney General Merrick Garland reportedly did not have prior knowledge of the raid and that it was actually FBI director Christopher Ray, who gave the final sign off.
[30] Now, what more have we heard from President Trump about this?
[31] So for his part, Trump has remained fairly quiet on the matter since releasing his initial statement Monday night, though he did offer a brief comment Wednesday, speculating that agents may have, quote, planted evidence in his property.
[32] That message was repeated again later in the day by Trump's attorneys, so another angle to keep an eye on.
[33] It's also worth noting that Trump was called in yesterday morning for a deposition in a separate civil investigation in New York that's centered on his foundation and business dealings in the city.
[34] He pled the fifth there.
[35] So a lot going on for the former president right now.
[36] Now, we also heard a lot of talk yesterday about the contents of the FBI's warrant.
[37] What do we know about that?
[38] Yeah, we still don't have official confirmation regarding what exactly the raid was trying to find.
[39] All we know is that they were looking for classified documents that were meant to be held in the National Archives.
[40] The warrant would theoretically answer a lot of those questions, but 72 hours post -raid, it's still not been made public.
[41] Trump's critics say that if he really did nothing wrong, then his lawyer should release the warrant and let everyone see for themselves what sort of probable cause the FBI had listed and what they were looking for.
[42] But according to Trump's lawyer, Christina Bob, agents had initially shown her a sealed version of the warrant when they arrived, but they then forced her off the premises until they finished the search.
[43] She says it was only after the agents left that they give her full copy of that warrant.
[44] You know, it has the attachment for what they're looking for.
[45] And, you know, the media has been reporting, which is accurate, that they're looking for presidential records or any possibly classified material.
[46] We, I don't believe that there was anything classified in there, but I'm sure that the FBI will say that there is.
[47] So now that the country's had two full days to process everything, how do we expect the raid and the subsequent fallout to impact midterms?
[48] Right now, each.
[49] side is claiming that it's going to help them, but it'll be a few days before we start getting more polls that should hopefully give a better idea of how all of this is playing with the American people.
[50] Now, Democrats say this is an example of Trump thinking he's above the law and that Republicans' willingness to rally around him will turn off independent voters come November.
[51] Republicans say it's going to help them, as they say it's galvanized their base and confirmed the Trump message that government institutions are biased against them.
[52] They also feel it's another example of government overreach impacting the legal system at the highest level.
[53] To that point, Daily Wire spoke to some of the president's supporters who've gathered outside his Mar -a -Lago residents.
[54] This will backfire on them.
[55] This is going to energize the Republican people, and they're going to get out of here and move.
[56] I think they mobilized us tremendously on this.
[57] Another supporter said this felt like something that would happen in a communist country, like Cuba.
[58] My name is Anglicoeras.
[59] My family.
[60] fled communism 60 years ago.
[61] And what's happening in America today is the same thing that destroyed my beautiful country in Cuba.
[62] What people need to understand and wake up to is if we don't get up and we don't support our constitutional rights, our children's future, we're going to lose this country to socialism and communism.
[63] All right.
[64] Well, this is a huge story and we're going to keep covering it.
[65] Cabot, thanks so much for coming on.
[66] Any time.
[67] That was Daily Wire senior editor, Cabot Phillips.
[68] Coming up, we speak to a lawyer about the legal questions surrounding the FBI's red.
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[77] With all the controversy surrounding the FBI's execution of its search warrant at Donald Trump's residence, a lot of legal questions are being raised.
[78] Joining us to discuss the Trump raid from a legal perspective is Harmeet Dylan, founder of the Center for American Liberty and co -chair of the Republican National Lawyers Association.
[79] Harmeet, legally speaking from what we've been told so far about what the FBI was searching for, which is classified documents for the archives.
[80] Was this raid a warranted action?
[81] Or should there have been other steps taken before something so drastic?
[82] So there's many layers to answering that question.
[83] What they say they were searching for were records that the National Archives says that they're entitled to, which apparently President Trump's lawyers, have been in discussion with the National Archives lawyers and have actually returned certain documents that the president took with him to his next home at Mar -a -Lago.
[84] So there is an ongoing discussion between counsel for the former president and the United States lawyers who are handling this case.
[85] And so in that context, a raid, or as they like to call it, the execution of a court order on a residence is really quite shocking because generally speaking, that's a last resort.
[86] Generally speaking, a federal judge should tell the United States lawyers to issue a subpoena so that the other side can come in and argue about the breadth of the subpoena, quashing the subpoena, whether records are protected from one or the other type of a privilege or what have you.
[87] You don't simply use the blunt force of a search warrant execution, which includes with it the wholesale collection of material that may be complete.
[88] irrelevant to the subject matter of the investigation that may somehow destroy property, which almost certainly happened here.
[89] And here you're talking about the former president of the United States who has all kinds of privileges and considerations.
[90] And certainly there can be no legal argument, in my opinion, that there was any risk of the destruction of the evidence in question, given the back -and -forth conversations, the number of months and almost two years that have passed since the president left the White House, this is an abuse of power.
[91] legal recourse does President Trump have here?
[92] By now, I'm sure the lawyers would have asked for the search warrant.
[93] But more important than the search warrant is what was presented to a federal magistrate judge to obtain the search warrant over the normal custom where you, you know, are supposed to ask for subpoenas and fight about that.
[94] And so there's typically sworn affidavits one or more by FBI agents stating the factual predicate for the extraordinary act in question.
[95] And those are typically under seal.
[96] They are under seal until a prosecution or an indictment.
[97] That is by practice.
[98] You can ask the judge to unseal the affidavits so that you, the person whose rights were violated, can test the merits of that.
[99] And if the government lied, if the government misrepresented the facts, there should be punishment for that.
[100] And that can happen.
[101] And that is, you know, certainly what journalists do.
[102] When journalists learn that they're on the wrong side of wiretapping or surveillance or a request to Google or what have you of their emails, that's a violation of the First Amendment in most circumstances.
[103] And I suspect this is not about the National Archives.
[104] I suspect this is about the January 6th Committee and trying to find more material for their reality show.
[105] And also potentially trying to find anything else they can find, you know, that might be lying.
[106] around to make a federal case because they are so scared of President Trump returning to the center stage.
[107] And so I think that's what's going on here.
[108] And I would very much like to know what is in all of those documents.
[109] I could be wrong.
[110] Maybe there is an amazing predicate that would warrant destroying public confidence in the impartiality of the Department of Justice.
[111] I doubt it.
[112] That was Harmy Dillon, founder and CEO of the Center for American Liberty.
[113] A new California bill headed to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk would expand taxpayer funding drug use sites across the state.
[114] So -called safe injection sites are aimed at reducing overdoses, but critics say they have a poor track record of success.
[115] Daily Wire investigative reporter, Marade Allorty, is here with the details for us.
[116] So, Marade, tell us about this new California bill.
[117] Sure.
[118] So the California legislature passed this bill this week.
[119] It passed narrowly in the state Senate with just 21 Democrats and zero Republicans, but it was enough to send it to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk.
[120] If Newsom signs this bill, San Francisco, nearby Oakland, and Los Angeles will be able to set up new supervised drug use sites.
[121] The idea is to allow addicts to inject or smoke their illegal drugs in a sterile environment with clean drug paraphernalia, hopefully reducing the spread of diseases like hepatitis and HIV and preventing overdoses from illegal drugs like heroin, meth, and fentanyl, which is especially rampant in San Francisco.
[122] Selling drugs is supposed to be prohibited at the sites.
[123] Critics say that San Francisco's experiment with a safe injection site was not successful and the program should not be expanded to other cities.
[124] Now, what happened with the program in San Francisco?
[125] Well, San Francisco is now shutting down its flagship safe drug use site called the Linkage Center in the Tenderloin District because it became flooded with drug dealers and had issues with homelessness and violence.
[126] Mayor London Breed said the neighborhood has a state of emergency when it comes to drug addiction and started the linkage center in an attempt to curb overdoses and help.
[127] addicts get treatment, but it didn't really do either.
[128] In January, the month's linkage opened, 48 people overdosed in San Francisco, and that number stayed about the same in the following months.
[129] Nearly 50 ,000 people used the linkage center between January and May, but only 38 people were linked to substance abuse treatment between the end of January and mid -May.
[130] The city even quietly changed the name of the linkage center to simply the tenderloin center, likely because it wasn't linking very many people with treatment.
[131] So now in December, the city is shutting down the linkage center, which has cost the city about $19 million.
[132] So now this bill has gone to Governor Newsom's desk.
[133] Has he indicated whether he's going to sign it?
[134] He hasn't commented publicly about this bill, but when he was campaigning in 2018, he said he was very open to the concept of safe injection sites.
[135] He's likely facing pressure to sign it because this is a longtime wish list item for the progressive base, and he's really trying to carve out a name for himself as the leading voice.
[136] on the left.
[137] But after the failed experiment in San Francisco, he may have reservations.
[138] We will likely find out soon.
[139] All right.
[140] Well, we'll keep an eye on this.
[141] Marade, thanks so much for reporting.
[142] Thanks, Georgia.
[143] That's Daily Wire investigative reporter, Marade Allorty.
[144] Other stories we're tracking this week.
[145] U .S. consumer prices jumped 8 .5 % in July compared to a year earlier.
[146] Three more buses of migrants reached New York City on Wednesday morning.
[147] as Texas Governor Greg Abbott continues to send migrants to the Democrat -run city.
[148] An Iranian operative has been charged in the plot to murder former national security advisor John Bolton as retaliation for a U .S. airstrike that killed an Iranian general.
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