Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, August 9th. I'm Nyla Boudou. Here's

what we're following. A series of killings shakes a Muslim community in New Mexico. Plus,

some close to home news about Axios. But first, the FBI searches Mar-a-Lago. That's today's

one big thing. Former President Donald Trump set on Monday, the FBI searched his Florida

residents at Mar-a-Lago. Two sources familiar with the matter. Told Axios' Jonathan Swan

that it was their understanding the search was related to documents taken from the White

House that may have been classified. It's a remarkable step without historical precedent.

When Axios' managing editor for politics, Margaret Taliv is here with this big story. Hi,

Margaret. Hi, Nyla. What do we know about this search so far? The Justice Department does have

several investigations ongoing involving Trump? Nyla, I think it's really important for everyone

to understand that we know actually very little about this search so far. And what we do know,

we know through the eyes, through the telling of the former President of Donald Trump,

in a very colorful, heated statement where he calls it a raid, where he talks about safe cracking,

where he tries to compare it to a reverse sort of a water gate. And of course, this is ultimately

part of a legal case or perhaps multiple legal cases. We don't know precisely at this point

what this search warrant was looking for. That's information that will become public over time.

But we do know that upon leaving office, the former President was reported to have taken

to his residence there in Florida, to Mar-a-Lago, several multiple documents that had been classified

and that the National Archives went down there to get. There are questions about

did they remain classified? Why does any of it matter? Why does the public care? These are all

big questions. And we don't know the answers to any of these questions yet.

Do we know then if this means federal prosecutors are getting close to an indictment?

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