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your eyes and ears on the world stage. All right, let's get ourselves briefed. The first up,

newly unsealed court records show exactly what FBI agents took from the home of former

national security advisor John Bolton. I'll have the details. Later in the show,

the Trump administration takes aim at countries that wrongfully detain Americans, with a new

executive order promising penalties for governments that use U.S. citizens as bargaining chips.

But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We're starting off today with a story

that we've been following here on the PDB, the dramatic raid on the home and office of former

National Security Advisor John Bolton. Court records, just unsealed, are now giving us a much

clearer picture of what federal agents boxed up and took away from the searches.

Now, in case you haven't been keeping up with this story, here's the backdrop.

Late last month, FBI agents showed up at Bolton's house in Bethesda, Maryland, and also

searched his Washington, D.C. office. The raid was part of an investigation into whether Bolton

mishandled classified information material

tied to his time inside the Trump White House. The raid itself made headlines at the time,

with video of FBI agents hauling out boxes from Bolton's home. But you asked yourself at the time,

what was in those boxes? That was unclear, until now. According to an inventory filed in court

because they're obligated to submit an inventory of what they took, agents seized quite a hall.

They walked away with three computers, including a desktop, and two laptops, along with two

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