it. more that from jessica schneider. reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj s warrant application where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defense info
18 former trump administration officials spoke exclusively with cnn to refute trump s attempted defense for stashing top secret papers at mar-a-lago. and the long-time chief financial officer for the trump organization pleads guilty for his role in a tax fraud scheme. allen weisselberg agreeing to testify against the former president s company but not against trump or his family. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with new moves by a federal judge to give the public more information about the historic fbi search of former president trump s florida home. cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today s important hearing in florida. tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate
trump s allies believe releasing the video would energize trump s base and could even be included in campaign ads. others warn it could backfire providing an alarming visual of the large volume of material seized from mar-a-lago. and we could know more about how much of that affidavit might get released by late next week because the judge has told the department of justice to make their proposed redactions and/or explanations why certain information should not be released to the public, he wants that by next thursday at noon. at that point the judge might then have more confidential discussions with the justice department as he deliberates exactly what to make public from this affidavit. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. let s bring in david aronberg, state attorney for palm beach county, florida. nice to see you this morning. so much to unpack here. the judge pushing the doj to release some information to the public, but it could take some time. he s given them a week to
is toxic politically is is going to hurt republicans in the midterm elections in 2018. what gillespie was trying to do was harness as much trumpism as he could to energize those voters, energize trump s base at the same time he brought in more traditional republicans, suburban voters, and he obviously failed in that regard. this was republicans were hoping that this could be a model for them in 2018, and that model failed last night. so republicans are going to have to think long and hard about how they run with this unpopular president in office. perhaps tweeting against them all the while. and democrats, it s game-on for them. they re in a very good position. last night showed they re energized in a way maybe they weren t even in 2016. jeffrey, house speaker paul ryan says his republican colleagues have one important lesson to learn, they need to do what they re trying to do, get this tax bill passed, get it passed quickly, but there are a