himes, a member of the house intelligence committee, says that s not the only potential risk here. the affidavit contains all sorts of information, including testimony by informants, witnesses, and others that, now that we know that not just donald trump, but the republican party generally, will make threats, include threats on the lives of people, including fbi agents that are involved here, there s an awful lot of risk. so it would be unsealed or could be kept seal, but there is a third option for the judge. that would be releasing it with redactions. the doj says if they redact everything they need to, the documents will essentially be worthless. bottom line, that affidavit could answer the why behind this search. apparently investigators are figuring that out. two law enforcement officials tell nbc news, they re still going through material, just as they have been for the past week and a half, trying to figure out what is and what is not relevant to their investigatio
releasing it would do grave damage to their investigation. but here s the thing, there really isn t a lot of specific precedent here. a former president of the united states has never had their home searched by the fbi. a former president of the united states has never taken classified materials home and then not given them back. a former president of the united states has then never gone on to publicly attack the fbi and the d.o.j., putting the departments and the individual law enforcement officers and officials who work there in grave personal danger. that is to say the public interests around this case along with the potential consequences of withholding more information around the search could sway the judge into releasing it, if not all of it then maybe some of it with redactions. and while we don t know what judge reinhart will decide at this moment, we could know at any moment. the hearing started an hour ago. joining me now from outside of the courthouse in west palm
trump candidates peddling the big lie. remember what trump tried to do to georgia s secretary of state who refused to overturn the will of the people. i just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. there s breaking news on that front today. the request by a georgia district attorney to seat a special grand jury to look into that infamous call and other potential election interference by trump has just been granted. the fulton county georgia d.a. will be allowed to seat a special grand jury this spring. and that is ominous news for the ex-president. this is a criminal investigation and some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven
this is a criminal investigation, and you just heard some of the key evidence is on tape. much more on that in a moment. speaking of tape, team trump isn t even trying to hide its attempts to overthrow president biden s victory. a former trump campaign adviser just confessed on live television a few days ago to taking part in a scheme to replace real electors from seven states with fraudulent ones. yes, i was part of the process to make sure there were alternate electors under the leadership of rudy giuliani. signed fake certificates were sent to the national archives declaring donald trump won states he lost. that was boris epshteyn, long time trump loyalist recently subpoenaed by the january 6th committee. i would bet the panel would like to hear a lot more about that from him. what s also deeply concerning is this draft executive order the committee is looking into from december 2020 that indicates a proposed plan for trump to use the military to seize voting machines.
i don t believe so, no. he served on the texas house redistricting committee. his own district is becoming more republican. when the districts are drawn so that republicans are in safe republican seats, democrats are in safe democrat seats sure. isn t that by definition incumbent protection. not necessarily. even if it s a republican district, they still have to have a republican primary. the incumbent isn t necessarily safe. reporter: true incumbents aren t necessarily safe, but the threat to them in politically gerrymandered districts full of voters from their own party comes from within, not across the aisle, pulling lawmakers even more to the extreme. texas state representative, chris turner, a democrat. there is no scenario in which a republican could win my house district. that could pull you left if you did have a primary opponent. sure. there s no question. reporter: there are different kind of gerrymandering, packing,