JUST SAID, IN FLORIDA.
SO WAS THE TOP LAW-ENFORCEMENT
OFFICER OF THE STATE NOTIFIED?
FLORIDA ATTORNEY GENERAL ASHLEY
MOODY JOINS ME NOW.
MADAME ATTORNEY GENERAL, WHEN
DID YOU LEARN OF THIS?
>> I LEARNED OF IT WHEN THE REST
OF THE PUBLIC LEARNED ABOUT IT,
LAURA.
IT’S JUST AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE.
I THINK SO MANY OF US HAVE
WATCHED AS THE CREDIBILITY OF
OUR FBI HAS BEEN CHIPPED AWAY AT
OVER THE YEARS FOR THIS
INSTITUTION TO BE REBUILT INTO
THAT INSTITUTION OF RESPECT AND
INDEPENDENCE AND SAFE AND TODAY
IS A VERY SHOCKING DAY, NOT JUST
FOR ME, BUT FOR MANY FLORIDIANS
AND AMERICANS.
>> Laura: WELL, PEOPLE ARE
GATHERING OUTSIDE OF MAR-A-LAGO
IN SUPPORT OF PRESIDENT TRUMP.
THIS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE
HISTORY OF THE REPUBLIC.
WE HAVE NEVER ARRIVED AT THIS
POINT WHERE A SUCCEEDING IN
ADMINISTRATION HAS SOUGHT TO
CRIMINALLY INVESTIGATE THE
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION FOR
PRESIDENT WAS PROBABLY GOING TO
RUN FOR PRESIDENT AGAIN.
SO THEY WERE UPSET ONE -- THEY
WERE UPSET WHEN TRUMP WAS SAYING
LOCK HER UP, REMEMBER, AT ALL
THE RELICS, THE MEDIA SAID YOU
CAN’T SAY THAT, IT’S HORRIBLE.
WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
THERE’S NO CONCERN ABOUT ANY OF
THIS TODAY IS THERE?
>> YOU DIDN’T SEE PEOPLE RUSHING
INTO HILLARY CLINTON’S HOME WHEN
THERE WERE ALLEGATIONS THAT SHE
HAD CLASSIFIED INFORMATION IN
HER EMAILS.
YOU KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE ARE
JUST EXPECTING THAT THE FBI AND
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE -- I
MEAN, I WAS A FORMER FEDERAL
PROSECUTOR.
I NOW IN THE
ATTORNEY GENERAL BARR USED TO BE
A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR.
YOU EXPECT THAT THE FBI WILL
TREAT EVERYONE THE SAME, EVERY
CASE THE SAME SO THAT THE
AMERICAN PUBLIC AND HAVE FAITH
IN THIS INSTITUTION.
AND YOU KNOW, ONE I HAVE DONE
ANYTHING THAT HAS ANY
SIGNIFICANCE WHERE FOLKS MAY
DOUBT BECAUSE I AM ONE PARTY AND
THERE MAY BE AN INVESTIGATION
RELATED TO SOMETHING, YOU KNOW,
YOU HAVE TO BE TRANSPARENT.
WHILE THE SEARCH WARRANT -- IN
MANY CASES THEY ARE SEALED, I
WOULD URGE THIS TO BE UNSEALED,
THE AFFIDAVIT THAT SUPPORTS IT
TO BE UNSEALED, THAT THE FBI
ISSUED A STATEMENT IMMEDIATELY
ABOUT WHAT SUPPORTED THIS, WHAT
TYPES OF CHARGES OR CRIMES THEY
EXPECTED THE EVIDENCE TO SHOW
THAT THEY FOUND.
THIS IS REALLY ASTONISHING,
LAURA, AND I THINK FOR THE
INTEGRITY OF THIS INSTITUTION
THERE NEEDS TO BE IMMEDIATE
TRANSPARENCY.
>> Laura: CONSIDERING THEY ARE
SUPPOSEDLY SO WORRIED ABOUT
THREATS TO DEMOCRACY, THEY WANT
TO SHORT-CIRCUIT DEMOCRACY BY
TAKING SOMEONE OFF THE FIELD.
THAT’S -- TO PEOPLE WATCHING
THIS TONIGHT, THAT’S WHAT IT
LOOKS LIKE.
SO WHILE THEY GRANDSTAND ABOUT
DEMOCRACY AND PRESERVING
DEMOCRACY, WHAT’S THIS?
IS NOT WHAT WE EXPECT FROM THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
BUT YOUR BOSS,
GOVERNOR DeSANTIS, SENT OUT
THIS TWEET WRITING THE RATE OF
MAR-A-LAGO IS ANOTHER ESCALATION
OF THE WEAPONIZATION OF FEDERAL
AGENCIES AGAINST THE REGIME POST
OF HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS WHILE
PEOPLE AT HUNTER BIDEN GET
TREATED WITH KID GLOVES.
NOW THE REGIME IS GETTING
ANOTHER 87,000 IRS AGENTS TO
WIELD AGAINST ADVERSARIES.
BANANA REPUBLIC.
I THINK YOU CAPTURED THAT RIGHT.
THE NEXT MOVE IS AUDITING OF
AMERICANS WHO DISAGREE.
FINAL THOUGHTS HERE?
>> GOVERNOR DeSANTIS USED TO
BE A FEDERAL PROSECUTOR AS WELL.
WE SHARE THAT IN COMMON.
YOU WOULD EXPECT THERE TO BE
SUBPOENAS IF THERE WAS ANY
SUSPECT OF CLASSIFIED
INFORMATION REQUESTING
DOCUMENTS.
AS HAS BEEN DONE IN THESE
SIMILAR CASES.
NOT 30 FBI AGENTS RUSHING IN ON
A SEARCH WARRANT.
IT IS CERTAINLY UNUSUAL AND I
TELL YOU WHAT, THE CHARGES, IF
THERE ARE ANY, THE
ALLEGATIONS -- THIS BETTER BE A
ROCK-SOLID CASE TO WRECK
WHATEVER RESPECT THERE IS RIGHT
NOW FOR THE FBI.
>> Laura: I THINK PEOPLE
ACROSS THIS COUNTRY ARE WANTING