comment as the court considers the matter. no surprise there. the question now is what will judge reinhart say? we could hear from him at any moment. we also could not. presumably he s going through the redactions right now, deciding whether what remains of the affidavit is even worth releasing. just don t hold your breath. he warned us on monday that what the d.o.j. proposes might render the affidavit gibberish, his word, and he s inclined to side with whatever the d.o.j. thinks is appropriate. some former federal prosecutors order judge reinhart could relean information about the lengths d.o.j. and the national archives went to get donald trump and his legal team to voluntarily hand over all those documents, that is if that information is contained in the affidavit. after all, we did get a little more insight into that timeline this week. the national archives released a letter revealing donald trump handed over 700 documents with classified markings, some at the highest le
probe into an ex-president s handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to balance protecting the prosecutorial process by keeping secret details of the investigation and providing enough information to defend his decision to request a search unlike any other in history. the impending release of a critical document in doj s investigation into the ex-president is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. carol leonnig is here and former national security adviser to president obama and neal katyal is back former solicitor general and now law
the former church deacon, and his wife. who on earth would want them down? it does not make sense. they were loved by everyone. everyone, maybe. but their own daughter who admitted to a bitter, simmering dispute. it s been a long family feud. her stepfather won her dead so she could get her property back. evidence pointed to her boyfriend as an accomplice. you have that blood on your shoe, he was there. or, was he? no hair, no fingerprints, no dna. nothing. a once loving family now gripped by suspicion. i had a lot of people in my ear saying she did it. with the terrible truth rip them apart? this cannot be happening. welcome to dateline. a daughter, battling her demons and her mother and stepfather for control of a 1 million dollar property. after their double murder, police started to wonder just how far bambi bennett will go to get what is hers. they followed a bloody trail of evidence deep inside the families dispute, exposing ugly secr
records that were taken by the twice-impeached ex-president when he left office in january 2021. the new reporting also details team trump s months of resistance led by the ex-president himself to handing over records containing some of the country s most important and guarded national security secrets. it reveals that the search of trump s private resident was actually many months in the making and really just the latest chapter in a long, simmering investigation. here s what happened when the national archives got their hands on the first batch of documents from mar-a-lago back in january according to this new reporting in the washington post, quote, when archives employees began opening up and sifting the material they noticed an immediate problem. the boxes arrived without logs and inventories to describe their content according to a person familiar with the recovery. instead they contained a hodgepodge of documents including some that didn t come from trump s time in o
By as trumpappointed judge Aileen Cannon is expected to hold two hearings where she will consider motions to dismiss the case is from what defendant walt nauta including from codefendants. Walt nauta, trump aide. This comes as never before seen photos have been revealed from june 2022 to showing nauta moving boxes around maralago. Prosecutors say the nauta move the boxes shortly before a trump attorney was going to look through them after getting a subpoena to turn over classified material. Cnns evan perez is in fort pierce, florida today to watch these hearings as they develop. Ivan, what to expect to see well, john, look, i mean, a lot of these motions that the defendants are making are usually handled by by briefings by the lawyers in this case, a judge, Aileen Cannon is having hearings are pretty much every single motion, which is why this case is moving so slowly. What today, were going to here, emotions from walt nauta this morning. This is a codefendant of the former president s