document comes out, it will change everything that we know about the search of mar-a-lago. now, there are three relevant documents here, the first two, the search warrant and the property received, those are out in the public. we ve seen those. just for the sake of comparison, the search warrant that is three pages. it s mostly a form you fill out it tells us where the fbi wanted to search and the criminal laws the doj is looking at. it the property seized. that s also three pages. most of those entries just say box of documents. but the affidavit, the affidavit is a game-changer. this is a narrative document that the prosecutor has to write out. i have written more of these than i can even count. they re dozens of pages wouldn t at all surprise me if this were 50 to 100 pages. they list probable cause, you have to list specific evidence. you bring it over to the judge. we know the judge in this case reviewed and approved it. just to make an analogy to prove it. back when w
olden days. remember the cards the duodecimal system? exactly. the title, the author and what subject. reading this is like reading those cards. reading the affidavit is like reading an actual book. now in the normal course of a normal case this affidavit would only come out in the do jflt went to court, filed an indictment against donald trump, we don t know if he s going to be indicted. but any person, at that point, that person gets the affidavit to challenge it in court. what cnn and other media companies are asking the court to do is unseal it. this is the normal course of events. right. why would the doj be resistant to let it loose now? two big reasons. one, to protect their strategy. one that they revealed last night. if they chose the affidavit would serve as a road map providing specific details and