announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re all about to learn more of what the government knows that drove it to search former president trump s mar-a-lago he estate a federal judge late today giving the justice department until noon eastern time tomorrow to make public a redacted copy of the affidavit that backed its application for the search warrant. the order issued just hours after the justice department submitted to the court sections it wants blacked out to protect witnesses, law enforcement, and methods used in the investigation. the full affidavit would describe the government s case and justification for the unprecedented search, but how much the redacted version will disclose remains an open question tonight. kelly o donnell is tracking late details. reporter: new tonight granted in part a decision from the florida federal magistrate to unseal by noon tomorrow a redacted copy of the affidavit used to authorize the controversial
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What happened tonight took place in new york. Michael cohen shows up for hearing and also in attendance, stormy daniels. They have not been announced of the rush aboutface. So talk about the judges ruling today. Reporter the judge gave every party a little bit of what they wanted without making a final ruling of those documents that received in the fbi raid of Michael Cohens. The office is going to filter those documents and hand it over to cohens attorney. How much is protected by Attorney Client privilege and report back. Theyre allowed to sip through them and those that pertains to him. And also the u. S. Attorneys office can go through the documents as well to figure out how much it is protected by Attorney Client privilege and all the party is going to reconvene and thats when the judge is going to make the final ruling in this matter. Talk about how it came about of cohens lawyer were forced to name sean hannity was his client. That was dramatic in the courtroom. We know the judg
Of the rush aboutface. So talk about the judges ruling today. Reporter the judge gave every party a little bit of what they wanted without making a final ruling of those documents that received in the fbi raid of Michael Cohens. The office is going to filter those documents and hand it over to cohens attorney. How much is protected by Attorney Client privilege and report back. Theyre allowed to sip through them and those that pertains to him. And also the u. S. Attorneys office can go through the documents as well to figure out how much it is protected by Attorney Client privilege and all the party is going to reconvene and thats when the judge is going to make the final ruling in this matter. Talk about how it came about of cohens lawyer were forced to name sean hannity was his client. That was dramatic in the courtroom. We know the judge asked Michael Cohens attorney to give names of his client. We know trump and there was this unnamed person. It was not like Sean Hannitys name came
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening we re all about to learn more of what the government knows that drove it to search former president trump s mar-a-lago he estate a federal judge late today giving the justice department until noon eastern time tomorrow to make public a redacted copy of the affidavit that backed its application for the search warrant. the order issued just hours after the justice department submitted to the court sections it wants blacked out to protect witnesses, law enforcement, and methods used in the investigation. the full affidavit would describe the government s case and justification for the unprecedented search, but how much the redacted version will disclose remains an open question tonight. kelly o donnell is tracking late details. reporter: new tonight granted in part a decision from the florida federal magistrate to unseal by noon tomorrow a