Senators Lankford and Scott call for Homeland Security Briefing on FBI raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago

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EXCLUSIVE: GOP Senators James Lankford and Rick Scott have called on the FBI, the Justice Department, and We are requesting that the National Archives report to the Senate. , Mar-a-Lago.

This raid is linked to the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) effort to collect records and classified material that the former president allegedly brought from Washington, D.C. to his Mar-a-Lago. Was. Refers to Department of Justice. 

A member of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee (HSGAC), Lankford, Oklahoma, Republican, Florida, Scott questioned the Senator, the Democratic chairman of the committee. doing. Gary Peters of Michigan will fill that role by providing supervision and arranging briefings.

In his letter to Peters, first obtained by Fox News Digital, Lankford and Scott said: FBI and DOJ must be completely transparent about their motives and objectives. Member briefings must be held immediately.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a press conference on Thursday,<u> </u>Mar- "Personally endorsed" the decision to seek a search warrant for Trump's private residence in a-Lago. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

“President Trump and his lawyers reportedly have taken the matter and the Department of Justice (DOJ) into It had been in negotiations with NARA for months to resolve it, officials visited Mar-a-Lago just two months ago to execute a search warrant that removed a box of documents from negotiations with the DOJ.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland Winter Mayors Conference in Washington, D.C., USA, Friday, January 21, 2022. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images) (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images) 56}

Senators noted that compliance with the Presidential Records Act was overseen by NARA, which is under the jurisdiction of HSGAC. 

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Merrick Garland Judiciary At a press conference Thursday at the Mar-a-Lago, Trump private residence, the DOJ motioned to unseal search warrants and property receipts from the FBI search. He defended the "honesty" of law enforcement officers.

DOJ opened the search warrant and Received money from an FBI raid in a "substantial public interest" on the issue while defending the "honesty" of officials (Greg Nash/The Hill/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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