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more momentum in key states. let s go outfront. good evening, i m tammy baldwin in for erin burnett. out front tonight, all eyes on the doj. a federal judge ordering the justice department to release the redacted affidavit used to justify the fbi search of trump s mar-a-lago home. the release could happen anytime between now and noon tomorrow. search warrant affidavits typically contain pretty crucial information, like why investigators want to search a property and what potential crimes they re looking for. judge bruce reinhart is ordering the affidavits release, agreeing with the justice department that certain portions of the document should remain sealed. this is how he put it. quote, disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties. the investigation strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and grand jury information. so now the question remains what will the doj reveal, and what will it tell us about ....
Gabby or, tell us more about how much fitten s influence has grown over trump. we re learning tonight that earlier this year after that initial trove of 15 boxes from mar-a-lago was returned to the national archives, former president donald trump started receiving calls from tom fitton, head of judicial watch, a very conservative legal activism group. in their conversations, fitten told him, first of all, you shouldn t have returned those boxes to the national archives because they re yours, and he laid out his case for why he believes trump has full authority over any records that he brought from the white house to his properties when he left the presidency. now, of course, donald trump didn t necessarily listen to fitten all the time. we know that in june attorneys for the former president did hand over additional documents to federal investigators. but he became more and more uncooperative, our sources tell ....
What will it tell us about the investigation into the sensitive material that was taken from mar-a-lago? this comes as we re also learning there is growing concern inside trump s inner circle that the former president s legal team is outmatched. sources tell cnn the former president is turning to outside legal advice, including advice from judicial watch s tom fitten, an ally that is clearly telling the president exactly what he wants to hear. trump should get every single document they took from him back. they re all personal records. we ll have more on the concerns about trump s legal team coming up. but first, i want to get to cnn s evan perez live in washington for us tonight. evan, i know you ve been speaking to your source at the department of justice about this. what more are you learning? reporter: kate, the justice department could that see ability to release this document right now. the judge obviously took the document that they submitted in court and said this i ....
Necessarily being the most competent foreign represent him at such a time of legal jeopardy. there s also lindsey halligan, a florida-based attorney who s primarily worked in insurance litigation. al alina habra has been a longtime representative of trump, but whose background is also not in criminal defense. and then there s jim trusty, who among trump aides and advisers we re told is really seen as the most trustworthy, the most competent of these attorneys around the former president. he s a former u.s. attorney himself. he also worked as a prosecutor for the justice department. so he s definitely seen as the highest caliber in trump s orbit. thank you for that. george conway, longtime conservative attorney. thank you for coming in. you just heard gabby orr reporting from the the advice tom fitten has been giving donald trump, that he shouldn t have given any documents to the ....
Defense articulated by trump on anyone his own behalf. and the reason why this case to me represents the shortest distance between donald trump and an orange jumpsuit is the fact that it s so simple. you know, january 6th involved dozens of people and dozen of different possible conspiracies and dozens of objects and a lot of people moving around and a lot of facts, and ultimately hundreds of people going up to capitol hill. you know, that requires a lot of investigation. here, it was just donald trump doing this pretty much by himself and being told by a handful of people who he should have trusted instead of tom fitten that those documents belong to the united states and they need to go back. and he has his fingerprints literally and figuratively apparently on these documents. he himself was reviewing them and deciding which ones should go back and which ones shouldn t. he had multiple opportunities to turn these documents back over ....