from msnbc world headquarters to new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour. the fallout grows on the fbi search in mar-a-lago. as we wait to see if donald trump s legal team filed a motion for a special master to review the evidence seized the department of justice is nearing a major deadline to propose redactions for the affidavit season that search. earlier today, house intelligence committee chair adam schiff spoke on winning the balance of the public s right to know versus the government s concerns. i think the question is, at one point in time does the public get to see that affidavit? i think the justice department makes a powerful case that at the early stage of the investigation, when it could jeopardize the pursuit of justice, this is not the time to be giving essentially the trump lawyers a roadmap into how to intimidate witnesses or how to derail illegitimate investigation. this all comes as a new nbc news poll out today shows americ
but one of the other safety concerns that i think just reinhardt has to be thinking about isn t just that of the fbi agents. but that of the doj attorneys involved. alex, one of the things that i noted last week in the briefs somebody or jay. there is signed by only two people. jay pratte, who s the head of counter-intelligence and export control video dj who s in this investigation, and one antonio gonzales, who is the u.s. attorney for the southern district of florida. a case like this we were talking about former president you see a whole long list of names. signing on to a motion to seal a search warrant for example. but here, you only see two and they re fairly senior people at that. that suggests to me that doj has its own concerns about the safety of its career prosecutors and lawyers. and that this isn t just a concern about fbi agents who might be visible and surveillance videos. or concerned about the judge who s protected by the u.s. marshals service. this is a safety issue