payback. what is next with cdc changes. breaking tonight we have to wait a little longer, at least, to get a look at the materials used by the justice department to obtain the search warrant for last week s search and raid of the florida compound of former president trump. the judge declined to order the unsealing today instead scheduling a hearing for thursday. the president is calling for the release of the affidavit that was part of those materials in what he calls the interest of transparency. the fbi opposes the move. correspondent mark meredith has our report tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. thursday s hearing is going to be fascinating pitting former president trump directly against the government he once led. trump and the media are urging federal judge to unseal the affidavit related to last week s search. the justice department trying to block the release and as for president biden, he is just trying to avoid talking about the case. palest
warrant happens august 5th. take a listen. the wall street journal s reporting that weeks went by before attorney general garland signed off on this application. yet, they are also saying they were worried about sensitive nuclear weapons information that could get into hands of foreign adversaries. well, which is it? i mean, was time of the essence? or was it not? bret: harold? thoughts? first, thanks for having me. professor turley is right in what he is saying there professor turley also said a few days ago that he was under the impression that merrick garland did not sign off on this affidavit and the attorney general actually did. which makes me believe we should all waited. i think democrats, republicans, supporters and detractors of president trump should all understand one thing is he innocent until proven otherwise. in fact, he has not been charged with anything. i think president trump, the former president has to understand that he should express his innocence and he
questions than we than we have answers. and it seems that they are multiplying. there was justification. the public should know that. if this was an overreach, the public should know that. i think we owe it to all of those rank and file fbi agents around the country to thoroughly investigate what has happened to both the fbi and the department of justice in recent years. bret: we ll continue to learn more but the affidavit tied to the search warrant of mar-a-lago has not been released. the judge thursday, the magistrate down in florida going to have a hearing on. that was meantime the wall street journal reports merrick garland weighed search of mar-a-lago for weeks. the department monday asked a judge not to make public the affidavit on which the search warrant was based as some news media outlets had sought writing in a court filing that the document contains critically important investigative facts about witnesses and tactics. meantime, the new york times about the decla
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