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
congressional seat in wyoming. rich edson is in jackson wyoming tonight. a primary where former president trump is trying to unseat one of his highest profile critics so, are senior republicans. her whole focus has been against one individual. many of cheney s republican colleagues argue she is too focused on leading the january 6th committee. and criticizing the former president. cheney supporters are trying to convince registered democrats and independents to switch parties and vote for her in this primary. voter registration numbers suggest that s happening. in january there were more than 45,000 registered democrats and 196,000 republicans. this month, 9400 fewer democrats. 19,000 more republicans. that, according to wyoming secretary of state. the impact that i think it will have will be minimal. we are in wyoming. we are not in some purple state.
of behavior, the fbi has completely destroyed trust here and they have lost the benefit of the doubt not just with republicans but with a number of the american people. bret: we did learn some things in that doj filing, which they are trying to prevent the unsealing of the affidavit. in which they say disclosure at this juncture of the affidavit supporting probable cause would, by contrast, cause significant irreparable damage to this ongoing criminal investigation. as the court is aware from its review of the affidavit, it contains, among other critically important and detailed investigative facts highly sensitive information about witnesses, including witnesses interviewed by the government. we usually don t get that level of detail from in the middle of an investigation. you could not. bret: that tells you that there are witnesses that have testified obviously before a grand jury to something that they are working on. maybe something beyond just the documents. look, i think
bret? bret: rich edson in jackson. rich, thanks. another race we are watching out in alaska, sarah palin running for congress in a special election. she is facing two other republicans there to finish the term of congressman don young. he died in march after serving 49 years. up next, people who lost their jobs over their refusal to be vaccinated are now fighting back and some are getting some big bucks. we ll wring you that story. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 9 in minneapolis as the state nurse s association votes to authorize a strike. it would involve is a thousand nurses at 15 hospitals in the twin cities and duluth would be one of the largest nurse s strikes in the country s history. fox 31 in denver as federal officials say arizona and nevada will get less water from the colorado river because of extreme drought. officials predict levels at lake immediate will plummet even further than they have. the colorado river