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it. more that from jessica schneider. reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i m not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj s warrant application where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defens ....
even questioning how this came to light. merrick garland was getting creamed in the pr war as trump repeatedly slammed the search as a break-in, but the attorney general felt he couldn t publicly respond. so justice department officials made hair case through leaks their case through leaks which violate the rights of a potential defendant who hasn t been charged with anything and may not be. they made garland s case from a behind a curtain of anonymity. a poll-up piece in the washington post cited people with direct information. as an ethical matter, the leaks are indefensible. i m howard kurtz, and this is mediabuzz. howard: ahead, we ll question senior white house adviser gene sperling on the fierce debate over the president forgiving college debt for millions. that new york times story triggered a media explosion, especially the part about donald trump repeatedly holding on to documents so sensitive they could only be seen in a secure government room and a ....
search of mar-a-lago. prosecutors made the case for secrecy because evidence might be destroyed, they said, but the judge set in motion the possibility of releasing a redacted version of the affidavit as soon as next week. ludicrous, ridiculous, bs, those words coming from former trump senior officials who dispute the former president s claim that he had, quote, a standing order to declassify documents that he took from the white house. cnn reached out to 18 former top trump administration officials and all of them told us they never heard any such order issued during their time working for donald trump. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. joining us now is former senior counsel to ken starr, former deputy assistant secretary for policy at the department of homeland security, paul rosen swig. i want to talk about the document released yesterday by judge reinhart which outlines some of the reasons why the fbi wanted to search donald trump s home and ....
office. the 43 empty folders beg the question, what was inside? where is it now? and here s where we need to stop for a moment because this involves a political figure, so there is a tendency to cover it like a political story. but this is actually a crime story. so what we need is a crime show fame to put us in the right frame of mind. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. all right, here s the scene. long forsman goes into a florida country club, finds thousands of stolen documents. some folders that used to hold those documents are empty. what documents or in those folders? where did they go? well, the current store you d start, with what s the motive? the fbi isn t going into retweet paper clips. paper clips have no value. so what s it worth? and to whom? and if you didn t know that, you would say, let s start with a guy who owns t ....
plus, a new breaking developments on the redacted mar-a-lago affidavit, with the intelligence community announced earlier today, and the white house calls out republicans who attacked student loan forgiveness, after having their own loans forgiven. the irony, i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. mohyeldin t started. mohyeldi let s begin with some breaking news, just hours ago. a federal judge in florida appointed by donald trump, we should note, issued a preliminary ruling on trump s request to obtain a special master for the darkness that were seized with by the fbi search of mar-a-lago. the judge says that she plans to apply the special master, but no actions have been taken just yet. a hearing in the case has been scheduled for this coming week on thursday. that would be september the 1st. we will have more coverage of this breaking news in just a moment. but we do want to talk about politics here to start out. democrats just flip 2022 on its head. possibly cru ....