get them to fedex back the letters from the north korean dictator kim jong-un and the attorney who was representing trump at the time was trying to get them to bring them back. one other thing i will note is that in recent days trump has been huddling with his legal team to talk about what the deadline is going to look like for them today, not just this justice department deadline, but also for them to refine their request to have a third party attorney help sift through some of the materials. kaitlan collins, thanks so much. a lot of important details there. joining us to discuss legal implications, david loughman. good to have you here. i wonder, there seems to be joint concern about releasing any information about witnesses here. so setting that aside for a moment, what additional information do you think the unsealed document is likely to reveal? i think that the justice department and the fbi probably came up with portions of the affidavit, some of which are kind of boiler pla
isn t released, should we infer anything from that about the seriousness of this investigation? well, the affidavit is always the juicy part of the search warrant. everything else is filling out papers, but to some extent, the boiler plate. but in the affidavit, as you laid out, the agent collects all of the information that has led the government to believe that there is a crime that merits investigation. so, you and i, and everybody else out there, who is listening, wants to read that. but doj s interest is in keeping all of that secret, and they lay it out in this motion, that you began to read from. and here s the problem, from where i sat as a prosecutor. if someone could read my agents affidavit, they would have a roadmap for where i was going next in the investigation. and there are real problems, particularly when you have a situation where witnesses can be intimidated, future witnesses might not come forward, right? i mean, this is a real sort of risk here. some sorts of inf
smooth operations in the white house which depended upon creating a record, because we are a rule of law country and we keep records and record the sort of items, whether it is a classification of import national security documents or reflecting pardons granted by president. when we talk about the documents in and around mar-a-lago, i will call it, investigations seizure. there s a lot of interest in this affidavit from the fbi agent to explain why they were going down there. a judge is going to have a hearing on that on thursday. what is your expectation from that? and if the affidavit is not released, should we infer anything from that about the seriousness of this investigation? the affidavit is always the juicy part of the search warrant, everything else is filling out papers but to some extent our boiler plate. but in the affidavit, as you laid out, the agent collects all of the information that has led the government to believe there is a crime that merits investigation. so,
items, whether it is a classification of import national security documents or reflecting pardons granted by president. when we talk about the documents in and around mar-a-lago, i will call it, investigations seeds are. there s a lot of interest in this affidavit from the fbi agent to explain why they were going down the. a judge is going to have a hearing on that on thursday. what is your expectation from that? and if the affidavit is not released, should we infer anything from that about the seriousness of this investigation? the affidavit is always the tricky part of the search warrant, everything else is filling out papers but to some extent our boiler plate. but in the affidavit, as you laid out, the agent collects all of the information that has led the government to believe there is a crime that merits investigation. so, you and i and everybody else out there who is listening wants to read that, but doj s interest is in keeping all of that secret. they lay it out in this no
so damaging that you have to ask yourself why, you know, it isn t as somebody pointed out the love letters from kim jong-un a couple of which i read and, you know, was the most flowering boiler plate you ever read in your life, but this is pretty serious stuff and one other point i would make, remember that in the group that came to mar-a-lago on monday, and searched, one of the people there was a fellow named jay brat who is the head of counterintelligence for the fbi. he s not talking about the u.s., he s worried about what our enemies are doing in russia, china, north korea, or whatever. there has been no link that said he was the specifically looking for nuclear documents, but it certainly does raise the possibility is there something there about intelligence about other country s programs and obviously that would be enormously serious because it would give an indication how much we knew about those