playing out before our eyes taking us to another scary place over the past fort night. a criminal investigation into donald trump s handling of classified information looming over the country and both major political parties with an even more significant specter casting a long, shadow in sharp relief. the very real possibility that a former president of the united states could soon be indicted for violating the espionage act or other federal statutes. it is extremely volatile and if donald trump is indeed indicted although that remains a big if, for the moment and we ll move beyond volatility and into more territory that s explosive into where there is a dramatic increase into more political violence than we ve seen already in our republic. in just the last two weeks we ve seen threats against the fbi and law enforcement surging. a pennsylvania man was arrested last week for threatening to kill agents of the federal bureau of investigation and a man armed with a semiautomat
trump and hillary clintoasen, yn potentially because ofto political bias. so unfortunatelypotentiall, we a don t know exactly what the fbis was searching for and we don t know the justification behind the raid as great jarretnd thett it in a piece on fox news .com, quote, the doj redacted trumpdad rade affidavit revealed precious little in earlier today.e in earlier former president trump reacted. soc on truth social writing, quote,l nothing mentioned on nuclear. a total public relations subterfuge by the fbi and doj or our close working relationship regarding document. turnover. we g so the bigav question tonight, where does it all go from here? well, joining us now wit with analysis, the author of the price of principle, harvard law professor alan dershowitz, along with former us attorney brad tolman and fox news legal d analyst greg jared. gentlemen,x ne thank you for joining us . brad , you re former u.s. attorney. i want to start with you will starti cannot get past thet
ramping up his violent rhetoric ahead of the midterms. how should democrats respond? i will put that question to nikki freed, who ran to take off desantis for governor. and, to spank are not to spank? we ll tell you about the school district bringing back physical punishment to deal with unruly kids. all that and more is coming up. and good saturday morning to you! i am kenny fang. where staying on top of breaking news this morning into the justice department probe into donald trump. and the handling of classified documents at the florida home. we begin with trump s legal team that filed a new court document late last night. in its pursuit of a quote special master. to oversee the review of evidence seized from mar-a-lago. trump s team did not elaborate on what exactly it hope the party would filter out. but it did allege that the newly released redacted affidavit, has more questions than answers. and provides no information that allowed why trump to understand that the
warrant of mar-a-lago will hear arguments over whether to release the affidavit behind it. it s arguably the most important part of that warrant. the doj is fighting its release, citing highly sensitive information tied to a national security investigation. the former president wants it unsealed. we ll explore the implications of today s decision by the judge. we re going to go ahead and start with today s hearing over the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit. msnbc s cal perry is outside the courthouse, ken dilanian also with us, and also with us, phil rucker, and chuck rosenberg, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official. both are msnbc contributors. thanks for joining me. ken, first to you. i want to talk about former trump organization ceo allen weisselberg, just officially pleading guilty to the charges against him. what happened in court and what happens for him next? reporter: well, he s going to serve five months at rikers island jail in new york city, lindsey,
in support of the request for a search warrant that gave the fbi legal license to enter mrara lag on. on one side of this dispute the doj strenuously opposing the release and on the other side donald trump and a media of organizations including nbc news urging that the affidavit be made public. there was little to no chance that the judge reinhart would approve the release of the affidavit and at the conclusion of today s hearing that judge reinhart was, in fact, open to releasing a redacted version of it and asked the department of justice to submit a proposal for what a redacted version might look like by next thursday at which point he will make his ruling and it will feature counterintelligence jay brat and he attended the team deeply involved in this case. he told the court that the investigation is still in its early stages and that the affidavit needed to be contained under wraps because it contained sensitive information in a unique case with national security overton