extremismes that threatens the very foundation of our republic. there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans. and that is a threat to this country. maga republicans do not respect the constitution. they do not believe in the rule of law. they do not recognize the will of the people. they refuse to accept the results of a free election. and promote authoritarian leadersor and flame the threatsf violence and a threat to our personal right, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law torque the very soul of this country. they look at the mob that stormed the united states capitol on january 6th, rudely attacking law enforcement, not as insurrection nists but place a dagger at the throat of our democracy and they look at them as patriots and see the maga failure to stop a peaceful transfer of power after the election as preparation for the 2022 and fo2024 elections, and now, america must choose
decision on whether to appoint a special master to review documents seized during the fbi search at mar-a-lago. this hearing comes after president trump s lawyers responded to the d.o.j. damning filing on tuesday. in their response, trump s lawyers pressed their argument that an independent review is needed. despite the justice department saying it had already filtered out any privileged documents. trump s lawyers acknowledge that classified material was found at mar-a-lago. but say there was no need to be alarmed. that trump s home should never have been searched for this. while we still don t know what was in the 320-plus highly classified documents that were recovered, we do know, trump attempted to obstruct the fbi s investigation into the handling of classified material. there s a lot to digest. let s go to west palm beach, florida, outside of the courthouse. the hear willing start at 1:00 eastern time today. walk us through what plays out now. about three hours from
the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. the department has until noon today to release it. the affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. in his order judge bruce reinhart said the justice department made a good argument for why portions of this document behind this search should remain shielded saying, quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement officers. the investigation s strategy, scope, methods and grand jury information. the judge agreeing with the justice department s decision to cut as we learn new details about trump s strategy or lack thereof and the legal advice he is getting from a conservative activist. privately the president and some of his allies have become concerned about the legal fallout. joining us now former federal prosecutor ellie honing. bring us up to speed on what documents we have seen and haven t seen and the one today. john, by the time this is all over ever
second-guessing. legal, economic and political over his plan to cancel some student loan debt. in the details of our plan we re working hard not only on loan forgiveness, but fixing a broken system. rain submerges entire towns in the south. flash flood fuel a life-or-death scramble to stay alive. we got everybody out, and that s the most important thing. everybody is safe. we got the staff and residents out. we can replace the stuff. the people are out. that s a good thing. up first, the legal back and forth over what stays secret from the mar-a-lago affidavit. we just passed a 12:00 noon deadline for the justice department lawyers to submit redactions to a federal judge. let s get straight to cnn s kaittelyn polantz. w when can we expect to learn what s going to happen in this case? when is the question. it s quite possible we don t see anything today out of the court as this process moves forward on this affidavit, what s going to be confidential there and what s
about what happens next now that the judge has this in hand? reporter: it could be some time before we see anything here from this process, this process where the justice department is proposing redactions from this affidavit that would detail the investigation up to the point where they decided they needed to go and search and seize documents out of mar-a-lago. this filing, it did come in under seal. the judge will take a look at it. there could be days or weeks of wagt ahwaiting ahead for us. as this process goes on, the judge is sitting in for the public, the public interest, the historical interest as well. the media and others are pushing for some level of transparency here because of what we already know about this unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. at the same time the justice department we know that they are arguing for a great deal of secrecy around this investigation. it s an ongoing criminal investigation. one that they want to protect. first and foremost, they