would get. the former president called this release today a total public relations subterfuge. the doj says that premature disclosure of more of this information could have a negative impact on their continuing investigation. here s president biden asked about this investigation, which he s been careful to keep at an arm s length publicly moments ago. the president said he declassified these documents. did he declassify them? i ve declassified everything in the world. i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment. i ll let the justice department take it up. that a short time from the president. bret baier is standing by. first to david spunt, our reporter covering this live at the justice department. good afternoon. good to see you again, david. what is the latest? interesting document. 38 pages. here s page 30 and 31, which you can see. you can consume some information. then there s page 15 and 16. so it just depends on which page you look at. there is some new
affidavit. we don t see it later on in the affidavit, meaning perhaps its behind some of those black lines, martha. martha: david, thanks very much. with that, we bring in brett tollman, executive director of red on crime. brett, thanks for being here with us. your headline take given what we have and have not learned here in this document today. martha, the affidavit reads more like it s attempting to convince the reader that legally the doj is on good footing and that there are reasons for them to want more of the documentation. but it does not read like a typical criminal affidavit. it outlines the back and forth with the lawyers. it outlines some of the law. it fails to give some key aspects of the law that might go in favor of the former president. so it s a very curious document. what we have in front of us, i m