could live with being in the public domain, there are certain preamble type language, the background and experience of the agent that could be masked the general identity of the agent, the statutes whose violations are at issue, some explanation of that, some explanation of what the different levels of classification are, and possibly some of the historical back and forth between the national archives and mr. trump and his representatives. which could really, david, shed light on, you know, how cooperative team trump was or was not. but to be clear for our viewers, you sat in the chair that jay brat sits in now. jay brat, who in court said to the judge don t release any of this, even redacted, don t release any of this affidavit because according to him it would, quote, likely chill future cooperation by witnesses whose assistance may be sought in this investigation. not to mention outside
media site that he wanted the immediate release of a completely unredacted affidavit that would never happen, especially in a moment like this, however, jay brat who went to the court and said don t release any of it because it could threaten and chill witnesses in this investigation and other investigations also didn t completely get what he asked for here. what do you make of that? what i make of that is we re going to get a document with a whole lot of black rectangles in it. there s going to be massive parts of this that simply can t be released and it s for all the reasons we ve discussed. it s the investigation, it s the witnesses, it s also we don t know who the subjects are here. we don t know if it is the former president solely or at all, if it s people around him. that information must be protected for the integrity of the investigation. on the other hand i think we re going to be able to infer some interesting things from what is not redacted. things like the time frame
turned over a few dozen additional sensitive documents during a visit to mar-a-lago by justice department officials in early june. the two trump lawyers who dealt with the justice department investigators who went to mar-a-lago in june are potentially tonight in very serious legal trouble of their own based on the breaking news reporting in the new york times tonight. this describes false assurances that those two more lawyers provided to the justice department in writing. the times reports, on june 3rd jay brat, the chief of the counterespionage section of the national security division of the justice department went to mar-a-lago to meet with two of mr. trump s lawyers, evan corcoran, and christina bob, and retrieve any remaining classified material to satisfy the support peña. mr. corcoran went through the boxes himself to identify
classified material beforehand, according to two people familiar with his efforts. mr. corcoran showed mr. brat the basement storage room where he said the remaining material had been kept. mr. trump briefly came to see the investigators during the visit. mr. bratt and the agents adjoining were given as chief of classified material according to people familiar with the meeting. mr. corcoran then drafted a statement, which ms. bob who is said to be the custodian of the documents signed. it asserted that to the best of her knowledge, all classified material that was there had been returned, according to two people familiar with the statement. the statement wasn t true. it was not true. christina bobb signed her name
the president say that you did it too late. i think it s a sign of the trouble the, disagreement they ve been having overwatch avenue to pursue. we are learning more about this message from the former president to merrick garland? this is the most fascinating part of the filing. we knew the special master thing was likely coming based on our reporting, they have confirmed for the first time that trump did try to get a message to biden s attorney general, merrick garland. he tried to do it through his uttering and jay brat, the lead justice department official on this. it says in the filing, basically the returnee relayed the message who is at mar-a-lago, and june and he said that trump s been hearing from people one word to describe the reaction to the right is anger. and trump instructed his counsel to say, the heat is building up, the pressure is building up whatever you can do to take it down to bring the pressure down, just let us know. it s very unusual to have a former presid