So, a federal judge issued search warrants for Rudy Giuliani's stuff.

Today, we took one big step on the road to justice.

And justice matters.

Hey all, Glenn Kirschner here.

So, let's just start with this.

Today is a good day for justice.

Because today, federal search warrants were executed on Rudy Giuliani's office, on Rudy Giuliani's home, on Rudy Giuliani's electronic devices.

Let's talk about the nuts and bolts of what a search warrant actually means.

And then let's pull back to 30,000 feet and see what we can glean from the fact that these search warrants at long last were issued and executed.

Okay, so first the nuts and bolts, search warrants 101.

When the FBI, the Department of Justice, is trying to obtain a search warrant for somebody's home, office, computer, cell phone.

What they do is they put evidence into an affidavit and they present that affidavit to a federal judge.

And the federal judge has to evaluate the evidence that the FBI presents and the judge has to conclude whether there is in fact probable cause to believe.

There's evidence of crime in the place to be searched or the thing to be seized.

And a federal judge reviewed the evidence against Rudy Giuliani and he or she concluded, yes, there is probable cause to believe there's evidence of crime.

Right now in Rudy Giuliani's office in his home, in his electronic devices and the judge authorized the search warrants.

That's a big deal and I can tell you folks that was vetted up and down the chain at the Department of Justice many times, especially when you're trying to get a search warrant for a lawyer, a lawyer's office.

Especially when it's one of the president's lawyers, we'll be talking more about the implications of that in the future.

Let's pull back to 30,000 feet.

What does it mean that these search warrants at long last have issued and were executed?

Because remember, there was reporting about how months ago in the Bill Barr Department of Justice, the federal prosecutors in New York, the Southern District of New York, US Attorney's Office, wanted to get search warrants for Rudy's stuff and the hierarchy at the Department of Justice blocked them.

But now, Merrick Garland's Department of Justice following the evidence not protecting anyone authorized the application for these search warrants and they were issued.

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