tuesday. mark meredith in palm beach, florida with more. mark: hey, good afternoon from hot and humid palm beach, florida as we await any potential motion that former president trump s lawyers may file and we are also looking for those redactions may be like because, again, the former president s legal team is giving claiming that the search here at mar-a-lago was a violation of trump s fourth amendment rights and while we await the motion we are looking to see when it may be filed or justice department response will be to this and we will be looking to see what happens on thursday, that s when federal prosecutors have to submit to a judge proposed redactions to criminal affidavit detailing what led up to search in mar-a-lago, we are also hearing from tennessee senator marsha blackburn. we still do not know exactly what they are up to and we know it s broad and far-teaching, going for documents anywhere between 2017 and 2021. it wasn t a focused raid, if you will. mark: we
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
would get. the former president called this release today a total public relations subterfuge. the doj says that premature disclosure of more of this information could have a negative impact on their continuing investigation. here s president biden asked about this investigation, which he s been careful to keep at an arm s length publicly moments ago. the president said he declassified these documents. did he declassify them? i ve declassified everything in the world. i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment. i ll let the justice department take it up. that a short time from the president. bret baier is standing by. first to david spunt, our reporter covering this live at the justice department. good afternoon. good to see you again, david. what is the latest? interesting document. 38 pages. here s page 30 and 31, which you can see. you can consume some information. then there s page 15 and 16. so it just depends on which page you look at. there is some new
affidavit. we don t see it later on in the affidavit, meaning perhaps its behind some of those black lines, martha. martha: david, thanks very much. with that, we bring in brett tollman, executive director of red on crime. brett, thanks for being here with us. your headline take given what we have and have not learned here in this document today. martha, the affidavit reads more like it s attempting to convince the reader that legally the doj is on good footing and that there are reasons for them to want more of the documentation. but it does not read like a typical criminal affidavit. it outlines the back and forth with the lawyers. it outlines some of the law. it fails to give some key aspects of the law that might go in favor of the former president. so it s a very curious document. what we have in front of us, i m
tuesday. mark meredith in palm beach, florida with more. mark: hey, good afternoon from hot and humid palm beach, florida as we await any potential motion that former president trump s lawyers may file and we are also looking for those redactions may be like because, again, the former president s legal team is giving claiming that the search here at mar-a-lago was a violation of trump s fourth amendment rights and while we await the motion we are looking to see when it may be filed or justice department response will be to this and we will be looking to see what happens on thursday, that s when federal prosecutors have to submit to a judge proposed redactions to criminal affidavit detailing what led up to search in mar-a-lago, we are also hearing from tennessee senator marsha blackburn. we still do not know exactly what they are up to and we know it s broad and far-teaching, going for documents anywhere