historic precedent that was broken and the events weep saw at mar-a-lago, the unequal application of justice and what the fbi perhaps department do to senator clinton and what they re doing to president trump. i think those are the fbi revealed those are some of the concerns the fbi revealed the investigation into hillary clinton 11 days before the election, presumably helped president trump be elected as president of the united states. there is skepticism out here. that s why we need transparency, why i ve been calling for it and others be let s have the ag and others obviously make the affidavit public, but let s do you think they are trying to entrap trump? we don t know. this has never happened before. never happened before. there s no evidence. you also have a former president taking all these documents down to mar-a-lago. what is he doing with that information? you don t know i don t
which information in a criminal affidavit should be redacted and what can be released without compromising the government s investigation of former president trump. well, the justice department just said that they didn t believe that they could release anything without undermining the investigation. i think that s rather obviously overbroad. magistrate judge bruce rinehart says he will review any proposed redactions before deciding whether to make the affidavit public. on truth social trump called for the unredacted version to be released. at thursday s hearing hifers legal team chose not to file any motions or even speak up on the matter. instead, trump s lawyers tell fox they will wait to see what happened. i think that won t be very much transparency. i would expect that we ll get a lot of black ink all over that piece of paper. have to see what they kick back. government lawyers say releasing too much information could endanger witnesses cooperating with the fbi as it inves
hello, everyone. at this hour, a florida judge will soon be deciding whether to reveal key details that led to the search of former president trump s mar-a-lago home. and the white house is unveiling a new plan to fight the monkeypox outbreak. plus, the war over books in texas. school librarians pulling challenged books off shelves, including the bible. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. today is a decision day, a day that the public could learn key details about the fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago estate. in hours a federal judge will hold a hearing to consider unsealing the affidavit used to justify that search. the justice department does not want that to happen. arguing that making the affidavit public would compromise its ongoing criminal investigation. on top of that, cnn has learned some people close to trump are now urging him to release
be crucial for prosecutors to know if they are actually going to charge trump or maybe top aides around him. so crucially, here, don, cipollone and film in where trump s designated reps to the national archives when trump left office. so, presumably, they know a lot, maybe, about the chain of command for those classified documents. possibly why they re talking to mar-a-lago. so the fact that they went to the fbi early this year is a big development in this case, specifically as to the criminal investigation into the classified documents. and what do we know, jessica, about the decision by the judge is supposed to make a decision on thursday on whether he is going to unseal that affidavit. so, they re having a hearing thursday 1 pm, court in florida. we re still waiting to hear trump s lawyers positions on whether to make the affidavit public. they are filing due tomorrow morning. the doj, though, has made their stance very clear on this. they are adamantly opposed to anything bei
affidavits are released, they can be released and they can be released in redacted form. as with the warrant itself, the position of the department of justice is really sort of overbearing. clearly the justice department can give more information on the basis for this raid, what was discussed in june, what happened between june and the raid. you don t have to release the affidavit to release that type of information. bill: two quick questions on that. so it is common to make the affidavit public, correct? that happens. well, in criminal cases it is often made public. not as common in civil cases. this isn t a common raid. this is a raid on the opponent of the president. brian fitzpatrick is a congressman from pennsylvania, former f.b.i. agent. over the weekend he said such an unprecedented action it should be supported by unprecedented justification. but to date we have heard merrick garland talk for three