potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. there s also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, there s public interest involved here. cnn s jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? we don t know for sure, anderson, but it s possible that the doj may have given a little more than they originally thought they could. the judge moved really swiftly today. it was less than four hours after he received prosecutors proposed redactions that he ruled that what they proposed would in fact be sufficient and should be released to the public by noon tomorrow. the reason it s interesting that this judge came to such a quick conclusion is that when doj argued in court last week, they said that any redactions could be so extensive t
and president trump said he wasn t given any head s up that the search was happening. how much advance notice did you have of the fbi plan to search mar-a-lago? i didn t have any advanced notice. none zero. not one single bit. sources have now confirmed to cnn that trump era records were not returned to the government even though a white house lawyer had determined that they should be, accordinged according to a may 21 email from the chief council to trump s attorneys. let s bring in a former federal prosecutor. thanks for joining us. thanks for having me. today the doj will submit their proposaled reed redactione judge. and of course this will all be unser seal, but you ve been through this redaction process before. what do you anticipate the redactions will look like, will we actually learn any new information? it is interesting, i have been through literally hundreds of these. and what the redactions will look like, you will see the affidavit and it will and i
fall into. oh, he s never going to be held accountable. the fix is in, stuff like that and, again, there is it s understandable that people have felt that way. but as you say, a for a sitting president, a sitting president has, yes, they re not above the law. but they can be pretty close they have all sorts of powers that they can just get out of stuff. and so as, as you were saying earlier, there are reasons that he didn t face the music for the stuff in the mueller probe there is a standing practice, you can t indict a sitting president. there s other things, and this is really important, that, you know, a sitting president, is he obstructing justice or following his constitutional power and duty to see that the law is, you
documents scandal involving donald trump. sources tell cnn that two people found additional classified documents in a trump storage facility in florida have now testified before a fwrand jury. federal prosecutors are pushing to look at files on the laptop of one mar-a-lago staff member, these are the latest sign of an aggressive approach by the special counsel. trump hasn t yet been charged with a crime. he is being investigated for possible violations of the espionage act as well as potential obstruction of justice. president biden is also facing a special counsel investigation into his handling of classified material. the justice department says it won t be handing over most of the documents from the investigation until it is complete. the republican chair of the house judiciary committee has demanded access to those records. the justice department says that it will stick to its long standing practice of withholding information that could compromise ongoing investigations. a seco
as of last week. now, we have less than 60 days to the election. less than two months to the midterms where the department has long term standing practice of not taking public investigative steps in a politically sensitive case so close to election day. but here we are. the doj is not showing any signs of slowing down. today, nbc s own ken delaney asked the head of the justice department s criminal investigation if he could say anything to help the public better understand the flurry of investigative activity in the last week dealing with trump s associates. the attorney general will share that it s important for us to preserve all relevant evidence, and that investigation, and any investigation. otherwise we will continue to speak through the work in the filing for the department of justice. importance of preserving evidence, you say? you have my attention. joining us now, matt miller,