possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 29th. it s pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid-may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. quote, identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential.
sandra: america reports with the justice department last hour submitting proposed redactions to the affidavit used as the basis of the search of former president trump s florida home. now it s up to a federal judge to determine how much of that document the public will actually get to see. hello, welcome, everyone. i m sandra smith in new york. happy friday eve. john: as we like to call it around here, that s what thursday is. good to see you, sandra. the federal judge who approved the warrant to search mar-a-lago is set to weigh the pros and cons of releasing portions of the affidavit. the judge acknowledged heavy redactions to make the document in essence meaningless. justice department maintaining it could be dangerous to release any part of the affidavit saying it could compromise the investigations. republicans, along with several news organizations are pressing for more information about what prompted the unprecedented search of a former president s home. sandra