criminal interference by the former president and his allies in the 2020 election. and then over to west palm beach, florida, the doj met the noon deadline just an hour ago to submit proposed redaction to the mar-a-lago affidavit. bruce reinhart will now begin considering the justice department suggested redactions of that affidavit. which basically lays out the government s-r reason for requesting the search in the first place. experts saying it is likely containing evidence of possible crimes that they expected to find on the property. today the former president once again said he, quote, did nothing wrong. the government vehemently opposed to the affidavit even being made public arguing that the release could, quote, cause significant and irreparable damage to an ongoing criminal investigation that is still in the early stages. the judge s deliberations are taking price in private and how much if any of the affidavit we will see is still unclear. the judge said earlier on
a way that were interfering in an ongoing investigation. charges that could have been brought for interfering in the on going mueller investigation and what they chalked that all up to was donald trump was doing all of this because it was interfering with his political abilities and his abilities to get done what he wanted to get done through congress. so they basically sort of whitewashing away a lot of those decision-making processes that he was interfering with, an ongoing investigation that for anyone else would have been certainly something that they would have looked for to charge someone with obstruction of justice but he got a clean slate from two individuals in the trump justice department who decided to make their case to former attorney general barr. glenn, what did you make of this unredacted memo? what stood out to you? you know, this reads like a public relations piece for
yasmin. we could see that a lot was redacted because both the justice department and the judge agreed that there were many, many senseive things in this affidavit that could not be exposed, the names of witnesses and the identities of fbi agents investigative techniques and as they put it, a road map to the investigation. all of that is extremely senseive and will not be exposed. but we could imagine that there are other things that possibly that have already been reported that they could be unredacted and might shed some light on stuff. the back and forth between the trump side and the archives and the justice department over getting the documents back and the extent to which the justice department felt misled about the existence of classified documents at mar-a-lago. right now we have to wait. the justice department has submitted a redaction. we see a sealed entry that the doinl has confirmed is theirs and now we expect to wait. how long do you think it will take to get a decision
position that the attorney general is in. how do you strike this balance in proving the validity of this search and yet maintaining the integrity of anongoing investigation with these redactions in mind? the reality is, you don t have to prove the validity of the search to anybody except the judge who issued the search warrant in the first place. that is the person who made the decision that based on the sworn affidavit that was presented to him, there was probable cause to believe there was evidence of crime on the property at mar-a-lago. beyond that, we don t draft these affidavits in investigations with a view toward it ever being disclosed to the public unless and until our investigation is complete, somebody has been indicted and we re now in the run-up to trial. so it is really not doj s job now to prove the legitimacy search to the public s
criminal interference by the former president and his allies in the 2020 election. and then over to west palm beach, florida, the doj met the noon deadline just an hour ago to submit proposed redaction to the mar-a-lago affidavit. bruce reinhart will now begin considering the justice department suggested redactions of that affidavit. which basically lays out the government s-r reason for requesting the search in the first place. experts saying it is likely containing evidence of possible crimes that they expected to find on the property. today the former president once again said he, quote, did nothing wrong. the government vehemently opposed to the affidavit even being made public arguing that the release could, quote, cause significant and irreparable damage to an ongoing criminal investigation that is still in the early stages. the judge s deliberations are taking price in private and how