a judge in florida saying there are portions that could be unsealed and giving the doj a week to explain everything that they say needs to be kept secret. but will it be page after page of black redactions? how will we know? we don t know until we see it. that as a justice department lawyer says the affidavit contains, and i quote here, substantial grand jury information and warns releasing it could have a chilling effect on witnesses. but the judge did release several never-before-seen documents today including the motion where prosecutors argue that they needed to keep their search warrant secret because the integrity of the ongoing investigation might be compromised and evidence might be destroyed. there are some more really intriguing clues in one of those documents. more on that in just a moment. but you ve got to wonder just how much the former president actually wants the full affidavit to be released. because his lawyer sitting right there in court today didn t sa
senate. mitch mcconnell worries aloud that it may block his return to the senate majority. and democrats say thousands of new irs agents will replace retir rees and improve customer service. up first for us, though, a new deadline and legal siren for the former president donald trump. federal prosecutors now have until next week to tell a judge what portions of the affidavit should stay secret. the judge disagreeing with the justice department say they are pieces of that document that could be made public without harming the case. they argued the probably cause for that warrant application. we learned the affidavit relies on substantial grand jury information and prosecutors say a full and public release of the document would lay out all to see the road map for the justice department s case, including next critical steps. we also got a glimpse of a new document with new allegations against the former president quoting willful retention of national information, language that p
and why the republican leaders are raising red flags 82 days away from the midterm elections. candidate qualities has lots to do with the outcome. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. there s a bunch of legal news surrounding donald trump today as there is seemingly every day, these days. none of it particularly good for the ex president. first up today, a federal judge in west palm beach says he will consider releasing some of the affidavits central to last week search of trump s florida. property judge bruce reinhardt ordered the justice departments to submit a redacted version of the document that will not undermine its ongoing investigation. then he will decide one week whether to make that version of the document public. we will have more on that. while we are long way from potential criminal charges from the ex president, let alone conviction, we already have trump s former lawyer publicly speculating about him running for a second
investigation and possibly chill witness cooperation. jessica schneider is here with the breaking details. what has the judge agreed to release? reporter: the judge has already made one crucial decision here. he says that he will unseal some relatively minor filings from the doj and this was something that the doj had said would be fine in their court filing, so the things that will be unsealed. it includes the department s motion to seal the warrant documents, also the court s order granting that motion to seal, and the criminal cover sheets here from the warrant application. the search warrant affidavit. so, those are relatively procedural, general information documents that will be unsealed. crucially, though, any information in those three documents that contain information about doj personnel, like names and contact information, that will all be redacted. so likely, what we re going to see later this afternoon won t contain anything substantive. it will just reveal som
releasing it would do grave damage to their investigation. but here s the thing, there really isn t a lot of specific precedent here. a former president of the united states has never had their home searched by the fbi. a former president of the united states has never taken classified materials home and then not given them back. a former president of the united states has then never gone on to publicly attack the fbi and the d.o.j., putting the departments and the individual law enforcement officers and officials who work there in grave personal danger. that is to say the public interests around this case along with the potential consequences of withholding more information around the search could sway the judge into releasing it, if not all of it then maybe some of it with redactions. and while we don t know what judge reinhart will decide at this moment, we could know at any moment. the hearing started an hour ago. joining me now from outside of the courthouse in west palm