what did we learn from the unsealed affidavit? let s bring our panel also journal columnist dan henninger and kempster also part columnist in manhattan senior fellow jason riley. kim, you have had a chance to go through this document. what have we learned? here s what we learned, paul in terms of a timeline. apparently there was extensive discussion for the national archives and the trump team about the retrieval of some documents they felt along to others at the presidential record act with the archives. fifteen boxes of those were delivered to the archives in january. in february the archives at a referral to the department of justice because they said they had found classified information in the boxes. sometime after that the fbi start a criminal investigation. fast-forward up until may when there is discussion with the trump team about getting a hole of more of this information. at some point the department of justice seemed to feel as though there was a risk there were
february, that is six months ago. why suddenly did they need to this unprecedented raid on the home of a former president? we have heard words thrown around like espionage or nuclear secrets. i think we were expecting to see some justification for this urgency. and we do not see it here. i do not think this is going to help the discussion died down in any way pretty think both sides are still this is only going to fuel the fire they are not being as forthcoming as i think they need to be because this is such an un- precedent act on the part of the fbi and the justice department. paul: dan, there s a statement on page two of the affidavit that says there is probable cause to believe there ll be evidence of obstruction of justice found. and then i looked at the document obstruction of what? what is it that he would be obstructing here? at least on what we know it would have to relate somehow to the handling of the documents, nothing greater.
everyone into the dark in terms of what real evidence you have and then engage in basically prosecution by leak. i think this really is an interesting situation. are they going to file charges or not or let this linger and allow the accusations to flow? one other thing that s interesting in this, it becomes clear the president voluntarily sent these 15 boxes to the archives. the affidavit reveals these classified documents were intermingled among photos and newspaper clippings. that does not sound like some sort of smart operation to whisk away classified documents so that you can sell them to a foreign nation. it sounds like may be sloppy handling may be. also got a letter from the president s team to the fbi saying hey he had the authority to declassify. all this raises questions about why a huge scale fbi investigation? and the heavy-handed rate approach. paul: make thank you while we combat the backwashing it s
that is right outside of chicago. it is the second-largest jackpot and megamillion history. officials say it s not really unusual sometimes for winners of such a large amount to not come forward in order to get there in the affairs in order and maybe get themselves picked up off the floor. [laughter] but whoever that is they have got a year to claim the cash. we fight i be back on the floor pretty much will be back in one hour. . paul: welcome to the journal editorial report i am a paul gigot. justice department friday releasing a heavily redacted version of the affidavit supported donald trump s home. the document giving a glimpse into the d.o.j. investigation of the former president s handling of classified information and presidential records after more than two and a half weeks of leaks to the press. leaving some to accuse the department of prosecuting its case through the media.