surveillance video of the actual fbi search of his home. now, in a separate case, moments ago, allen weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of trump s family business, he pleaded guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme. we ll have more on that in just a moment. let s begin with katelyn polantz. katelyn, set the scene for us here. reporter: this afternoon, kate, we re going to be listening for justice department prosecutors and how much they re willing to say about this ongoing investigation into the handling of classified material, potentially kept at mar-a-lago after the trump presidency. it is going to be about this affidavit, but this say court hearing over secrecy. the justice department says that this is a serious ongoing criminal investigation. it implicates highly classified materials, and that they need protections of confidentiality to keep their investigation going, to keep doing the work that they need to do to decide whether there should be a charge here.
private. i think if we were to see those search warrants, those underlying affidavits unveiled, we would find something disturbing here and i m guessing but my guess is based on the years of the russia hoax and all the other hoax with the doj and fbi. once you have the lawful search warrant and you gather material personally with the law enforcement, you can use those materials even if nothing to do with the underlying crime. todd: in covering the top stories, brooke, good morning. we are hours away from the hearing whether to unseal the affidavit and other materials used to green light the search r president trump s mar-a-lago home. keep in mind the judge providing approve the fbi search warrant to execute that raid. the department of justice opposes the release of the affidavit and compromising the investigation into trump. by calling the department s bluff saying they are putting up red tape to hide his politically motivated search. the trump family is confident the
a federal judge will weigh whether to unseal the affidavit that set off the fbi s unprecedented search of former president donald trump s mom. it s of a push in that investigation that could further divide the nation. trump s legal team won the affidavit to be public to ensure that the justice department is not abusing its power, but the doj consents that it would compromise ongoing criminal investigations and could damage national security. [laughs] it s a lie. all of this lacks common sense, logical reasoning. if these documents were so important, all this classified information, why wait 18 months? why would merit garlands trying to figure out if it s the right decision if these documents were so important? if you were looking for specific information, why was the search warrant so broad? if mayor garland was so worried about the integrity of the doj and fbi be in question, why leak that information and not have the affidavit be released? this goes back to what chuck
long list of crimes including brutal attack on an asian woman. going to eliminate a lot of your student debt. decision looming for the biden administration about student debt. extending the current pause through the end of the year would cost $20 billion. canceling would cost 230 billion. how is our guy doing up there? yes. this was so good. cleans up. mode of transportation underneath the left arm. he could have ditched him. no. he is going oh. [laughter] working. working for a living living and a working taking what they are giving because i m working for a living. that is a beautiful shot of ocean city, new jersey, the sun is coming up there. it s going to be 82 degrees in ocean city today and not a cloud in the sky today. there s a picture when you look at the forecast and it s just the sun no. cloud coverage at all. wait, didn t we just see. todd: i gave in clarification if you are waking up 6:0 is on the east coast. piro, what s he doing? h
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