other grand jury material. but what is now public tells a damning story about the former twice impeached president who, by the way, is the one who originally called for the affidavit to be released. trying to play chicken with the doj before they called his bluff. now, first in the government s 13-page memo explaining the rationale for the redactions they said parts must remain sealed to, quote, protect the safety and privacy for a significant number of witnesses in addition to law enforcement. in other words, the fbi s probable cause was not based on a single informant but a number of different witnesses likely having to be people inside the trump s orbit and i m sure that fact is not sitting well with donald tonight. and the affidavit explains why many of them might have cooperated. it describes in specific detail the nature of some of the documents that were just laying around trump s golf resort. in 15 boxes of documents returned to the national archives in january the fb
rinehart is giving the justice department one week to decide which item in the affidavit against the former president should remain sealed and which should be released. the justice department is likely to ask for a lot of different redactions here. they say this case is still very much in the works. they are also worried that information released could put some witnesses who are cooperating with the government at risk. citing intense interest in the case against former president donald trump today lawyers from multiple media outlets argued for the government town seal a criminal affidavit and additional materials outlining where the federal investigation stands and what led up to last week s unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. trump s florida estate. that is the public interest. we are entitled to monitor the affairs of our government at all levels. and that is the interest in this essence that we were asserting today. federal prosecutors told judge bruce rinehart full
featured guest on this week s version of the all-american summer concert series. he is extremely talented. 5 9 . steve steve how much does he weigh, brian? 37 years old. born november 9th. i would think he is about 172. and i think he is going to be in canton, ohio next but more importantly with us soon and as soon as they start rolling the turn out on thursday, the whole city changes shape. it just becomes they just start buzzing about the summer concert series. katie: i love country music and i love chris lane so i m looking forward to that later in the show. steve: that s right. you know, as we look outside though, it s dark. when we started the summer concert series, it was really bright. steve: there you can see the mclemores because they have been grilling up food for the vips who are in attendance today. and it s john and john. what are you fixing today? steve, katie, brian, we you may have an empty stage behind you, but you are not going to have empty st
message ahead of the midterms. meanwhile hours away from the release of the affidavit that led to the fbi search of mar-a-lago and the redacted document that tells us anything that we don t already know. the latest in an escalating situation in ukraine, the largest nuclear power plant goes offline after intensive fighting sparked fires in the russian-controlled silo. good morning, and welcome to way too early. on this friday, august 26th. i m in again for jonathan lemire, president biden stepped back on to the campaign trail yesterday, with a fundraiser and a rally in the dc suburbs of maryland. he railed against maga republicans at both events. told donors, quote, what we re seeing now is the beginning or the death knell of an extreme maga philosophy. it s not just trump, the entire philosophy, it is like semi-fascism. the rnc came back with this statement, despicable, biden forced americans out of their jobs, transferred money from working families to harvard lawyer
you can t get much detail out of this. and it was approved by a judge. which does tell us something. although not what is under the redaction. so we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president. the suspicion about criminal evidence. all of this is here in the ballpark. and if you ve heard today or tonight, we know everything now and i could tell you, no we don t. we obviously have to be careful about what is redacted. we re learning new things. so i m going to go through the facts with you right now. the road map here that has been released, the affidavit, shows how agent recovered the highly classified documents and then based on that timeline and the information, they saw a grave need to go back into-n to do a search to get the rest of them. they found that the trump had, in the doj view, stolen material that involves secret clandestine human source and intelligence. that is the kind of material that is supposed to stay on