The “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC dedicated extensive time Tuesday morning to the stunning news that former President Trump’s Palm Beach, Florida home of Mar-a-Lago was raided Monday night by the FBI with a search warrant reportedly pursuant to a possible Presidential Records Act violation. 

However, the liberal networks were surprisingly not ready to celebrate with ABC and CBS noting there’s been very little “transparency from the Justice Department or the FBI” and, if they had only sought boxes of presidential records, it would be correctly viewed as “overreach” by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

ABC’s Good Morning America co-host George Stephanopoulos called the raid “stunning” in a tease while chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl was even more direct: “This may be the most politically explosive raid ever undertaken by the FBI. It's a stunning development.”

Speaking after Karl’s lead-off report to chief legal analyst (and NewsNation host) Dan Abrams, Stephanopoulos said viewers need to “kinda take a breath,” inviting him to walk everyone through the process so they understand what would have to happen for that FBI search to take place.”