florida. where judge bruce says that he is inclined to unseal some of the affidavit used by the fbi to secure a search warrant of the former president s home in mar-a-lago. the affidavit contains important information like the fbi s probable cause, and specific details that witnesses. a lawyer representing the justice department is able to, quote, a potential interference in the investigation. should be released to the public? an important point. but after an hour-long hearing on thursday, the judge said that he didn t feel the government left the burden of proving the whole affidavit should remain sealed. he instead decided to side with media companies, including nbc. nose to say it should be held the judge ordered the justice department to submit his proposed redactions to the affidavit, and illegal memmel justifying that by next thursday. it was a little perplexing. about all of this frankly. is that for the last several days, donald trump and his allies have been arguin
groups really together on the same side but we really just chose to see how it will play out. we need to wait and see i can t be certain at this point because we haven t seen the affidavit, we certainly haven t seen the redactions and how it s going to play out. joining me now is david, the state attorney for his palm beach florida and also with us nbc analyst,. both legal efforts thought that they would keep the seal because of the governments active investigation. help us understand why the judge decided that the public interest was just too important to keep the entire contents of the affidavit seal? yes, hi zerlina great to be with. you and i think what happened yesterday is that the judge wanted people to buy into the criminal justice system. he wanted to turn down the volume. he saw what was going on out there and so he wanted to show that he is being very levelheaded, even handed, and he s not gonna make any absolutists positions. so instead he s gonna ask the