even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story triggered a media explosion, especially the part about donald trump repeatedly holding on to documents so sensitive they could only be seen in a secure government room and a deep s
documents marked top secret, 54 documents marked secret, and 31 marked confidential. they also found more than 48 empty folders marked classified, no info on where the contents of those folders are. they also collected more than 1,000 non-classified documents that do not belong to donald trump, they belong to the government. the inventory describes how the country s most sensitive secrets were tossed in boxes with newspaper clippings and even random items of clothing. some of these documents are so top secret, so tightly restricted, that they are only to be viewed in secure facilities. and this is just the stuff retrieved on august 8th. it does not include the hundreds of other classified files that federal investigators had worked to get back months earlier. joining me now is cnn political correspondent, and cnn judiciary committee and cnn legal analyst, who was house judiciary special council in donald trump s first impeachment trial. i just want to give people an example o
officials want to keep the affidavit private. this language in and of itself in this warrant violates the fourth amendment and the constitution. the american people have a right to see everything, this should not be done to a former president of the united states this is unprecedents, not because it is donald trump, it is merrick garland and matthew graves and leftists at the department of justice that will stop at nothing to destroy this country. todd: brooke singman has our top story, brooke. brooke: we are just hours away from unsealing the affidavit on the search warrant of president trump s mar-a-lago home. the judge approved the search warrant for the raid. the department of justice says it would compromise criminal investigation into trump, but the former president is calling the department s bluff saying the department is putting up red tape to hide politically motivated search and the trump family is confident the document will prove the former president had
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on. the deadline is noon, but it could happen before then. the justice department has been ordered by a federal judge to release a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the fbi s search of mar-a-lago, again, by noon today. it could come out earlier. the affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. and in his order that came out yesterday very quickly judge bruce reinhart said the justice department had made a good argument for why portions of this document that are behind the mar-a-lago search should remain shielded, saying, quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, uncharged parties, maybe the investigation s strategy, direction, scope. sources, methods and grand jury information. the judge agreeing with the justice department s requested cuts as we are learning new details about what s happening inside trump s legal team and the advice that he is getting from a