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
right. and obviously the heat shield is so critical here, so instead of having actual people on board, you re going to have these mannequins and i have a lot of questions about these mannequins. one, i would like for you to send me one so i can put it in john berman s office when he s not looking. two, the mannequins, people are remarking how creepy they look, but they re important to have them there as you wait to see that actual people can be on board, right? in particular we are going to make sure that the radiation that those mannequins receive is acceptable. of course, if there is a solar explosion with a human crew, we re going to have to figure out a way that we can try to protect them from that radiation. and this is all a part of the testing process. and, kaitlan, i ll give you a little secret, they closed out orien, the hatch, two nights ago, the last thing that they
we have major developments in the search of mar-a-lago, and a big development coming on the state of the u.s. economy. i m john berman. brianna is off. cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins is with us bringing the news. we got a lot to talk about today. sometime in the next few hours, the justice department will release a redacted version of the affidavit used to justify the fbi search of former president trump s mar-a-lago estate. the affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. a federal judge ordered the doj to release it, but agreed to keep key portions of the document from public view. it is also a critical day for the u.s. economy. we are going to get a key report on inflation this hour, and later on, investors are going to be watching incredibly closely for news, not from wall street, not from washington, but from wyoming. that is where federal reserve chair jay powell is set to deliver a speech about t
during his presidency of him reading the material in that much depth. now, that s not the main defense they re putting forward but it is something to keep in mind. there is no reason that he should have these documents. they ve tried reason after reason and nothing really sticks because there is no true defense to that. in terms of his background in intelligence and his interest in intelligence, it would be odd in suddenly now as a former president he is more interested than he was when he was commander in chief. it would be disappointing from a national security point of view certainly but also would be out of character for him so i think we have to look for other reasons why he s holding on to these. also he got a lot of his presidential daily briefing that every president gets he got it orally a lot of the time. he wasn t given huge stacks of documents to read through. every president has a different taste on that, i think. also president biden limited his access to those wreechks
all, deny the outcome of the last election. i mean, many of them are still including the former defeated president are still fighting the outcome of the last election. we saw step by step by step what he tried to do to overturn the rightful decision of the voters in 2020. now we have people running who are pledging that in their offices that they take, the secretary of state or attorney general or governor that they are going to determine the outcome of elections regardless of the votes. i mean, so, look, if it walks like a duck, talks like a duck, it s a duck. i don t think there s a lot of risk there because the american people have seen this, they ve seen this through the january 6th hearings, you know, they ve seen it in the conduct of the former president. you re okay with the phrase semi fascist? well, look, i m not even you know, look, i m not smart enough to really know what that means, but the point here is that we have what he said later which was we have a lot of r