From WNYC Studios, it's Brian Lair, a daily politics podcast.

It's Tuesday, August 9th.

With us to shed light on the search at Mar-A-Lago and its implications,

Andrew Weissman, professor of criminal and national security

law at NYU Law School, lead prosecutor in Robert Mueller's special counsel's office, and the author

of Where Law Ends, Inside the Mueller Investigation. Andrew, welcome back to WNYC. It's great to have you

back with us today and on short notice with this breaking news. So thank you for hopping on.

My pleasure. First on terminology, I think it's important to start here. Trump calls it a raid. I see actual law enforcement and ex-law enforcement people like you saying, Raid is the wrong word.

So what's the right language here and does it matter?

So I don't think it matters, but I do think it is important to have the right

nomenclature because when you use phrases like raid and break-in, it makes it sound like the government

willy-nilly just did something against the law.

But here, whatever side you're on of this issue, this complied with our legal system, which

is that the government can't just do a search

on its own. They have to get a court to approve it based on probable cause. So here

a court clearly approved the search, which means there was probable cause that was set

out in an affidavit, that there would

be evidence of a crime, and that the evidence of that crime would be located at Mar-a-Lago.

And then the FBI went about executing a search warrant.

So I think when you use words like raid and break in, and they broke into my safe, it makes it sound much more

nefarious than saying this is how the court system works. There has never been a search warrant

issued for the residents of a former president of the United States before, as far as I know, how would

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