comment as the court considers the matter. no surprise there. the question now is what will judge reinhart say? we could hear from him at any moment. we also could not. presumably he s going through the redactions right now, deciding whether what remains of the affidavit is even worth releasing. just don t hold your breath. he warned us on monday that what the d.o.j. proposes might render the affidavit gibberish, his word, and he s inclined to side with whatever the d.o.j. thinks is appropriate. some former federal prosecutors order judge reinhart could relean information about the lengths d.o.j. and the national archives went to get donald trump and his legal team to voluntarily hand over all those documents, that is if that information is contained in the affidavit. after all, we did get a little more insight into that timeline this week. the national archives released a letter revealing donald trump handed over 700 documents with classified markings, some at the highest le
justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian, congressional investigative reporter with the washington post, jackie allamane and former justice official chuck rosenberg. ken, they ve made their filing, the judge is looking at it. walk us through what we can expect now. well, there s a couple of possibilities, katy. the most hopeful one for us is that we see a document today, a redacted version that shed some light on something that would happen if the judge took a look at the redactions, agreed that it was worth releasing, that there was enough there that was meaningful to the public, that he would actually order the release of a redacted version. the other possibility is, though, that the redactions are so thorough that the document is rendered in the judge s words meaningless gibberish and then the judge would decide it s not even worth releasing and he would rule in that manner and the third possibility is that
the judge disagrees with the justice department s proposed redactions and then he said in that event he would place the whole thing under seal to allow the justice department to appeal, in which case we won t see anything probably for some time. but i think you articulated in your open the most hopeful avenue for those of you who want more information about this case, which is it doesn t seem like it would impair the investigation for them to allow the exposure of the timeline here, to lay out all the efforts that the archives and d.o.j. made, much of which has already been reported but it would be nice to see it confirmed by the justice department to get the documents back before they took the extraordinary step of going to a judge and getting a consistent and sending a team of fbi agents to seize them. i want to get the reporting and what we know so far about the timeline. walk us through this e-mail that you re reporting on. yeah, katy. this is a very tortured, extended and long