just relying on one or two witnesses. likely this is, as they say, a significant number of civilian witnesses as well as people in law enforcement who need to be protected as this investigation moves forward. and that puts into context what we re looking at here. we re talking about a former president of the united states who s clearly taken with him when he left office materials, whether they re classified or not, that could do grave damage to our national security if they re disclosed in an inappropriate fashion. and not only is that former president resistant to returning those documents, also doj has legitimate reasons to believe that there are risk to witnesses who are helping complete this investigation. that should be a sobering moment for us to realize we re in this situation with former president trump. well, i think we have had an extraordinary hour here sharing
0 from the company that powers more businesses than anyone else. call and start saving today. comcast business. powering possibilities. and good day. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. the affidavit the justice department used to win approval for the fbi s search of mar-a-lago is being released at any moment by order of the justice department approving it by the federal judge magistrate on the case. much of it is likely to be redacted to conceal critical information about sources and methods the government used to persuade the judge there was probable cause for him to of potential crimes to justify the search of the former president s home. the judge ordered the unusual release of the affidavit in part to de bunk the explosion of conspiracy theories about the search. the escalating threats against the fbi and other law enforcement officials. all of this sharpening the country s political divide as president biden escalates his attacks on what he is now criticizing as, q
as this investigation moves forward. what s also said is in the basic conduct of the job, it can be dangerous, as well. it s just evaluating the danger to all of those individuals that are doing exactly what they re supposed to. that s literally what the taxpayers are paying them to do. and for the fbi and law enforcement across the board, even at state and local levels, when they follow the law, they re being passively punished in a way. usually by elected officials at this point, which is very strange in our country s history, because the law is pretty straightforward. i think everything in terms of the investigation that we ve seen, quite straightforward. and just what you see there, whether it s fbi headquarters or state and local law enforcement, or coming up in the fall, elections and polling facilities. we ve got, i think, a powder keg going on right now in this country. yeah, ben, clint says that he s not seen this kind of rhetoric since 1/6, and we all know what happened on
criminal inquiry by inspectors in homeland security. what do you think what s the importance of those texts? would could those texts tell us and how could this play out legally in the court, as this investigation moves forward. even, it s hard to know exactly how important they are without getting the region. that s exactly why they re lost. secret service is in the habit of losing the stuff. whenever you have critical documents that have been lost, to obtaining them based on what we ve seen already, i can only assume that they add even more to to prove intent from president trump, based on what we heard last night. susan, isn t it weird when you look at the totality of questionable missing text messages the white house records show no calls, no activities for trump even though we know rudy he called rudy giuliani the white house even told his photographer not to take any