do you expect this to be a speaking indictment, essentially laying out the facts in some detail when we finally get it unsealedas i would anticipate, although, i obviously don t know that it would be a speak indictment. our office, when i was district attorney used speaking indictments in order to have the background facts that led to the indictment i think it s a mechanism by which the public official can explain in a public and legitimate way why the case is being brought and what evidence generally speaking can be anticipated during the trial let me read an editorial from the washington post just after the indictment was made public here s what they wrote this prosecution is now bound to be the test case for any future former president as well as, of course, proceedings against this former president, a failed
the search warrant. and the affidavit that was released in part today contains the background facts that establish that probably cause. the background facts that establish that probable cause. that affidavit that you mentioned, heavily redacted, as we have seen. what is likely to be behind those big black blocks? well, the government actually identified five categories of information that it was concealing with the redactions, and it is important to bear in mind that there are a number of people besides the government who know what is behind those blocks. one of them is, of course, thejudge who has reviewed the original affidavit, reviewed it in order to approve the search warrant, and then reviewed it in order to determine whether these redactions were proper. and, of course, trump himself knows much of the information that is redacted in the affidavit. the reason for the redactions and the reason they are so extensive is, one, because the government is trying to protect civilian w
in order to get a search warrant, so the magistrate judge here determined when a search warrant was conducted that the government had probable cause to search for evidence of the three crimes that are outlined in the search warrant. and the affidavit that was released in part today contains the background facts that establish that probable cause. that affidavit that you mentioned, heavily redacted, as we have seen. what is likely to be behind those big black blocks? well, the government actually identified five categories of information that it was concealing with the redactions, and it is important to bear in mind that there are a number of people besides the government who know what is behind those blocks. one of them is, of course, thejudge who has reviewed the original affidavit, reviewed it in order to approve the search warrant, and then reviewed it in order to determine whether these redactions were proper. and, of course, trump himself knows much of the information
was conducted that the government had probable cause to search for evidence of the three crimes that are outlined in the search warrant. and the affidavit that was released in part today contains the background facts that establish that probable cause. that affidavit that you mentioned, heavily redacted, as we have seen. what is likely to be behind those big black blocks? well, the government actually identified five categories of information that it was concealing with the redactions, and it is important to bear in mind that there are a number of people besides the government who know what is behind those blocks. one of them is, of course, thejudge who has reviewed the original affidavit, reviewed it in order to approve the search warrant, and then reviewed it in order to determine whether these redactions were proper. and, of course, trump himself knows much of the information that is redacted in the affidavit. the reason for the redactions and the reason that they are so extensive i