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probe into an ex-president s handling of classified material. new york times notes that it is incredibly rare for even a partial affidavit to be released at all. they add this, quote, the submission by the justice department is a significant legal mile post in an investigations that has swiftly emerged as a major threat to trump, whose lawyers have offered a confused and at times stumbling response, but it is also an inflexion point for attorney general merrick garland who is trying to balance protecting the prosecutorial process by keeping secret details of the investigation and providing enough information to defend his decision to request a search unlike any other in history. the impending release of a critical document in doj s investigation into the ex-president is where we begin today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. carol leonnig is here and former national security adviser to president obama and neal katyal is back former solicitor general and no ....
Procedure. tell me about what we learned today from what will be released in less than 24 hours from now? so we learned, nicole, basically that the justice department won today, as expected and in the passage you re reading says that he agrees with the justice department s redactions and the blacking out of certain parts of the affidavit and i wouldn t be remotely surprised if they weren t blocking out huge chunks of the affidavit because it would be responsible for them to risk the disclosure of key witnesses or grand jury information or anything like that at this point in the investigation. so now what happens here is the justice department could appeal because there is a principle at stake which is we don t release affidavits, period. when that is basically the department s general position, as you said, it s incredibly rare for any sort of release and even a partial release to happen ....