legal jeopardy faced by donald trump. christine romans. we ll get a glimpse into the legal jeopardy faced by donald trump. a redacted version of the warrant will be released. and we may learn that what convinced the judge that there was a probable crime committed. more now from jessica schneider in washington. reporter: we could see the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit in redacted format any moment because the federal judge bruce reinhart has ruled that the justice department must make public the version they submitted to him on thursday. is is this likely significantly blacked out, but it could still reveal a few procedural details. the judge wrote that the doj must unseal their version of the affidavit by noon on friday and we saw that the judge did agree that the doj does need to blackout substantial portions since it could reveal the identity of witnesses, law enforcement agents, it could reveal encharged parties who might eventually be charged with crimes related
the fbi s search of mar-a-lago. the department has until noon today to release it. the affidavit lays out why investigators believe there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. in his order judge bruce reinhart said the justice department made a good argument for why portions of this document behind this search should remain shielded saying, quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement officers. the investigation s strategy, scope, methods and grand jury information. the judge agreeing with the justice department s decision to cut as we learn new details about trump s strategy or lack thereof and the legal advice he is getting from a conservative activist. privately the president and some of his allies have become concerned about the legal fallout. joining us now former federal prosecutor ellie honing. bring us up to speed on what documents we have seen and haven t seen and the one today. john, by the time this is all over ever
some indicted, often because of their client. i say that not as shade or criticism, but as an objective legal matter. they get in trouble for the things they do for him, not unrelated legal failures, which sometimes brings up talk of the devil s advocate. i will explain. our breakdown on that ahead. our top story now are the continuing clashes over the search of mar-a-lago and whether more information will come out about a path to what was an unprecedented search of an ex president s home in all of our history. today we re seeing a judicial ruling about releasing more information for the first time. this would be new beyond what we learned about the warrant. we have a written explanation of this ruling which came down where the doj can suggest redactions. some more information may be release in the a process by the judge. trump says he wants extra information released. today the judge indirectly suggested that trump and some other maga attacks on law enforcement will actually
a spokesman for manafort says it s 100% false to suggest this meeting including any discussion of contributions to the trump campaign or the republican party. when donald trump jr. talked about the meeting he called it nothing and manafort said he was on his phone most of the time. the whole contact took how long? 20 minutes or so. 20 minutes. and jared left after five or ten. yes. like she said and paul manafort. on his phone. the whole time. like i said it was pretty apparent this is not what we were in there talking about. it does appear manafort was on his phone to take notes. nbc s reporting says manafort ses notes typed on a smartphone described by one source as cryptic were turned over to the house and senate
think you know. i m not answering about any particular eggs vexes. i can t talk about that in a classified setting. i want to be careful in open setting. i carefully chose the words. like look i ve seen the tweet about tapes lordy, i hope there are tape
There. and, ultimately and we saw a new york times cnn college poll that just came out, joe biden, dump tied right now in this election ultimately comes down to michigan. everything else doesn t matter and it s a few thousand votes there. carley: usually august is a slow news month. not this august. we got a new indictment. joe, we have got to leave it there fox & friends starts right now. charging donald j. trump with con intirg to defraud the united states. biden s justice department just brought criminal charges against donald trump for the third time in four months. this is a free speech killing indictment. hunter biden basically said everything we re doing is about my father s last name. the value he brought to the business operation they were involved in was the biden brand. powerful political figure in d.c. there is no more room. the migrant crisis overwhelming new york city. huge crowds lining the streets outside a hotel now filled to