good morning. 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. i'm jose diaz-balart. outrage turns into action in uvalde, texas. the school board fired em battled school police pete arredondo over the police response at the massacre at robb elementary. we'll hear from relatives of those impacted and go live to uvalde. right now we're keeping an eye on a courthouse in west palm beach, florida, as a doj has just two more hours to submitted its proposed redactions to that

high-profile affidavit concerning the search at mar-a-lago. this morning, more women will not have access to abortion as new strict abortion bans are now in effect in three different states, with one law making the professional a felony with life in prison. congresswoman jackie speier will join us with that. president biden announced his plan to help 43 million americans with their student loan debt. we'll take a close look at how this will impact students of color. later this hour, over two dozen people are dead after moscow unleashed new attacks on civilian infrastructure in ukraine. we'll bring you a live report from ukraine. we begin this hour in uvalde where the school board unanimously fired school police

chief direct pete arredondo. it was a heat meeting that took place exactly three months after a gunman murdered 19 children and two teachers at robb elementary. >> for him to not be here and actually face the consequences to his actions, exactly. >> if it was one of your children, heads would be rolling. but because it's not, you don't care. >> i have messages for pete arredondo and all the police officers there that day. turn in your badge and step down! you don't deserve to wear one! >> arredondo did not attend but his lawyer did and sent a lengthy statement accusing the board of an illegal, unconstitutional public lynching. saying arredondo had outstanding conduct. priscilla johnson was at last night's meeting and joins us

from uvalde. how are people there reacting? >> reporter: jose, this is news this community has been waiting on for three months. finally last night, it came with the school board finding that there was good cause to terminate pete arredondo's contract effective immediately. you saw most of the people in that room erupting in cheers and applause as that was announced. the meeting did start on a much more contentious note with those family members and community members going up to the microphone, expressing their concerns, calling for accountability and transparency and then that board went into a closed-door meeting for more than an hour. you could feel the tension in the room mounting until they came out and announced that decision. as you mentioned, pete arredondo was not there that night. his attorney, instead, releasing a 17-page statement in which he said this was a violation of arredondo's constitutional right

to due process and went on to say arredondo should be reinstated with back pay and full benefits. we asked some folks at the meeting last night about arredondo's response. i want to play what one person had to say about that. take a listen. >> you didn't have a car wreck into a stop sign. you had a loss of life, 2 is of them, 22 coming to pass away from a broken heart. you to come out and you're asking -- you're asking for back pay? how do you even come up with something like that? >> reporter: no word yet on if arredondo plans to appeal this decision or possibly even sue the school district based on what happened last night. we have reached out to arredondo's attorney but have not yet heard back. jose? >> priscilla thompson in uvalde, thank you. joining us texas state representative roland gutierrez was at the meeting last night.

good to see you. we're three months in and arredondo was fired last night. is that accountability? >> i guess it's the beginning of accountability, jose. the fact is we have a lot of work to do in this space. we have yet to see any accountability on the state police, the sheriff. in my opinion, every one of those officers in that hallway should turn in their badge. that's a harsh statement but that's the reality. and certainly executives at the top level shouldn't be working right now. we had a texas ranger -- go ahead, yes, sir. >> no, no. i was going to tell you, there was more than 300 officers there in that more than one hour. it's a small army there and yet, and yet, well, we know what happened. >> we don't know entirely what happened. we have yet to have the department of public safety give

us any of their body cams, any of their radio transmissions. we had a texas ranger inside of that hallway. that ranger sat on the phone with some supervisor, some higher-up within the department of public safety. why didn't he tell them to go in? who was he talking to? there was no measure of courage in that hallway. the only courage that was in that building was the children. >> it's amazing to think it was three months ago and yet the pain, the suffering, senator, that you know so well from that community and those families that lost the most important thing in their lives. what, senator, can happen going forward to get some accountability? i know you're very involved in that. >> the greatest measure of accountability, jose, has to come from a governor. this is a man who gets a direct report from the department of

public safety. who they needily account to him and yet he has refused to ask for any of the things we're asking for. he has refused to ask for any meaningful accountability from the department of public safety and steven mccraw. he has been -- quite frankly, this has been a dereliction of duty not just on steve mccraw but on the attorney general of texas. this community was robbed of government when they were asking to fix the radio systems on may 249 and it continues to be wronged by this governor and people at a very high level within the state of texas. i want to get the answers as to why. i'm going to keep going forward with our lawsuit. we're currently on appeal. your network has a lawsuit against the state of texas, as it should. we have to keep getting and finding the answers. i find it ironic that mr. arredondo was asking for justice yesterday and yet those

families have received none. >> how are those families? it's a question we know the answer to in the sense that you can never overcome that, but how are those families doing today? >> they're broken, jose. i made so many friends of those family members and still yet a few new friends of the ones i had not yet met, but i'll tell you they are all -- it just doesn't get any easier. this is the loss of hope. a loss of hope and dreams of each one of those children on your screen that wanted to be everything in this world and, unfortunately, they will never be. >> state senator gutierrez, i thank you, as always, for being with us. appreciate your voice. and now the latest on the investigation into how former president donald trump handled classified information. the justice department has less than two hours, until noon eastern time today, to submit proposed redactions to the

affidavit used to justify the warrant to search trump's mar-a-lago estate. a federal judge gave trump's team until tomorrow to answer key questions about his lawsuit, challenging the search and asking for a special master to be appointed to review documents seized by the fbi. this comes as we learn more about just how long the national archives and the trump team have been talking about discussing the documents trump took from the white house. "the washington post" obtained an email the archive sent to trump's lawyers in may of 2021 safe roughly two dozen bocks of records stored in the white house warehouse had not been returned, despite white house counsel, pat cipollone, determining the documents needed to be sent back. with us now to talk about this, "new york times" justice reporter katie brenner and. katie, what happens once the justice department submits thoos

proposed redactions and has to do so in the next 120 minutes? >> the judge is going to review the redactions submitted by the justice department. the judge has read the affidavit in its entirety and will come in with his own ideas about what should or shouldn't be redacted. and they will review whether the justice department's version makes sense. the judge could say, i think you've redacted too much. it is possible the doj will have to go back to the drawing board to come up with a document that everybody agrees can be released to the public. >> what could it mean for the investigation if the judge approves trump's request for a special master to review the documents? >> i think the special master will look and see if there was anything inappropriate in what the justice department took. i don't think it will impact the investigation itself. it might make things slow down, but i don't think that overall the idea of donald trump taking documents that were a national

security document and keeping at mar-a-lago, that narrative does not really change with the appointment of a special master. >> the email obtained by "the washington post" shows that the battle between trump and the national archives have been going on since he left office more than 18 months ago. this is a process that's been ongoing and yet it seems as though they haven't been very successful. >> right. this is the thing that pushes back on the notion that somehow the fbi overreached in doing the search of mar-a-lago. it looks like the department of justice did give and the justice department did give donald trump every possible opportunity to comply with the law and his obligations. now as a private citizen to not have one document, one of these. any one document that belonged to the american people in the white house would have been a story, but we're talking hundreds and not just routine documents, national security,

top secret documents. very dangerous for the safety and security of the american public. so, they went through many hoops and ultimately a subpoena. and it sounds like we're getting dribs and drabs even through the trump team of what the story could be in the affidavit. pieces of what could be in the affidavit as to why they felt, listen, it's just a bridge too far. we need to take actual law enforcement action because this is so serious. the outstanding questions, jose, are two. number one is, who saw this information? did it get into the hands of foreign adversaries? and the second question is, do we have it all back, we being the american people, or is this game that donald trump has played, is it still ongoing? did he -- at the time of the search, did the fbi capture all of the documents that could potentially be harmful to the american people if put in the wrong hands?

>> katie, what are you hearing from your sources at the justice department about where this investigation goes from here? >> i don't think it's certain that the investigation actually began with an aim towards prosecuting donald trump. keep in mind the justice department's aim is to get back classified material and make sure it's secure. there has to be consideration of donald trump's own behavior in the nearly -- in more than a year and a half back and forth between the federal government and donald trump over these documents. not only did he want to give them back, it's not clear whether or not his own lawyers were forthcoming about what it was he still had, not clear if he was honest with his lawyers. that opens up an entirely different line of inquiry in addition to whether or not they had the documents. prosecutors will have to confront whether or not those things actually, in their mind, rise to criminal behavior or -- criminal behavior that needs to be charged. >> kim, all of this as the justice department releases an unredacted version of the 2019

memo making the case to then attorney general william barr that donald trump should not be charged with obstruction of justice in jekz with the investigation by robert mueller. what should we take away from this memo? >> the reason we're actually seeing it because the document wasn't about whether or not to charge donald trump. the decision was made for de facto in advance by bill barr there weren't circumstances under which donald trump would be charged. this was really kind of a pr almost, the best case scenario not to charge him. that's why the federal court finally released it. under the freedom of information act, barr had said this was a deliberative document. they were trying to wrestle with a really thorny problem as to whether to indict donald trump. not true. the federal courts are pretty upset that bill barr wasn't honest with the courts and the american people about what this document was about. legally, it's flawed on a number

of fronts. it distorts the standard for obstruction of justice. it demonstrates he had a preconceived idea of how that mueller report was going to come out and that's not accountability for donald trump. the two takeaways. number one, bill barr really did tarnish the reputation of the attorney general's department and that's something merrick garland is trying to reconstruct. the second thing to keep in mind is donald trump is no longer president. my have you on why barr took that position in the memo and did all these cute maneuvers to protect donald trump is because he has belief in the massive power of the presidency. the president is in charge of the justice department so he can't obstruct justice. all of that is off the table now that trump is a private citizen. >> i thank you for being with us this morning. it appears the u.s. economy did not shrink as much as first

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this morning new abortion trigger laws going into effect in idaho, tennessee and texas. almost all abortions are now banned in idaho and tennessee. performing the procedure is now punishable up to life in prison in texas. but on wednesday a judge ruled that idaho's ban cannot be enforced in situations where it conflicts with federal standards for emergency care and hospitals. it's a result of the justice department suing idaho in its first abortion lawsuit since the end of row. meanwhile, back in texas, a judge ruled against the biden administration on the same issue. with us now is caroline kitchener. thank you for being with us. you have these conflicting rulings in idaho and texas. it's just a patchwork of different laws depending on the

state. is that causing some confusion? >> the thing to know about the idaho ruling, while it was a victory for the biden administration, it was an extremely narrow victory. almost all abortions are still banned there. the only exception now is for the health and life of the mother. i think the really big takeaway this morning should be that now as of this morning, abortion is banned, or mostly banned, in 15 states. that means one in three american women that has lost access since roe fell in june. >> as a matter of fact, you've been reporting on this. you just had an article on a couple of days ago that, indeed, one in three american women, more than 20 million, have already lost abortion access. but i'm just wondering with these new bans, how many more women could lose access in the near future? >> a lot more. right now these laws are

temporarily blocked in a handful of states but nobody really expects those blocks to stand for long. soon you'll see those lift. you'll also see bans almost certainly in south carolina after labor day and west virginia is another one where a ban is swiftly moving down the pike. there's certainly more of this to come. >> i'm just wondering as you look down the pike on things that could happen in the future, i'm just thinking issues of travel or medication issues. is that something that is going to be coming up shortly? >> absolutely. i mean, what we're seeing now, and i spend a lot of time online looking at what various patients are saying who are trying to get abortions. they're reaching out on support groups, trying to find answers. and what you're seeing are really large numbers of women who are ordering pills online through online pharmacies, all

illegally. i think the next thing we're going to see is anti-abortion lawmakers trying to crack down on that, trying to figure out a way to stop women from ordering pills online and from getting them through the mail. i don't really know how they're going to stop that, but that's certainly one of the big impacts we've seen after the decision. >> i thank you so much for being with us this morning. with us now to continue our conversation, california congresswoman jackie speier. congresswoman, thank you for being with us this morning. you've spoken in the past about -- you said how having an abortion saved your life. one in three american women now live in a state where they've lost access to abortion. what do you make of these restrictions? >> they're now becoming so extreme that they really, i think, depict a mysyny among

state legislators in the state. we're talking about 10 million women who are not going to be able to have access of control over their bodies in these stations and going to have to go through macinations and travel long distances to have an abortion or d&c. all of a sudden we have government-mandated pregnancies. think about that. we had our republican colleagues clamoring for getting rid of mask mandates and it was -- they wanted to control their bodies and yet now a woman has no control over her uterus. >> and all of the reaction, congresswoman, we've seen since the supreme court decision overturning roe/wade, it seems to have changed the political discourse in our country. do you see this having an impact

on elections going forward? i'm thinking, of course, of november. >> i don't think there's any question of this decision by the supreme court has really ignited a great deal of energy among women, young women who typically don't vote in off-year elections and suburban women who tend to be independent and they swing between republican and democrat depending on the election year and the issues. so, those two cohorts are going to be critical in the november election. when your life is at stake, it gets real. i think that's what we're seeing among young women and the older suburban women. this is a right they've had their entire lives and now it's being taken away so their daughters don't have it. it is so fundamental to who we are as women that it captures

the interest of republican women, poor republican women, who don't want to have another child. let's be clear. 59% of women who get abortions are already mothers. they're embracing motherhood. 50% of those women who get abortions are living below the poverty level. my republican colleagues want to make sure that we give birth to these children, but after they're born, all bets are off in terms of providing any resources to them. whether it's providing baby formula or food stamps or diapers. you're on your own. >> congresswoman, you sit on the intelligence committee which is requesting for information on the classified documents found at donald trump's mar-a-lago estate. what questions do you have about these documents? >> i don't have a lot of questions about the documents. i think that it is a criminal

investigation now. the president of the united states does not own any of the documents that come under their control. the presidential records act in 1978 was very clear. they belong to the american people. donald trump didn't just take them by mistake. he took them intentionally and then for over 18 months was resisting returning them. that's like someone who steals your car and then just doesn't want to give it back to you. are you supposed to just sit there and wait for them to get the message or do you take action? that's what the justice department is doing. now, would i like to see the documents? yes. but i don't need to see the documents because i have full confidence that if something is top secret or sensitive, compartmentalized information, it has been defined as such because it is going to be powerful in the hands of our adversaries and it could, in

fact, impact our national security because sources and methods might be exposed. >> congresswoman, this marks six months since the war in ukraine, the russian invasion of ukraine. at least 22 people were killed in an attack at a train station in ukraine after president biden announced $3 billion more in military aid. what more should the u.s. be doing to help here? >> i'm sure president zelenskyy would like us to give them more powerful weapons system. biden has made the decision that giving the most powerful weapons would incite russia to engage in a bigger war. i was in romania just last week meeting with refugee moms and their children from odesa. these people are so committed to the democracy in their country. they will never, ever give up. and that's the greatest resource

that the ukrainian people have right now. their will to do whatever it takes to retain their country. >> congresswoman jackie speier, i thank you very much for your time. appreciate it. >> thank you, jose. up next, who's set to benefit most from president biden's student debt announcement? our very own morgan radford joins us next to break it down. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." ch time bee it can lead to blindness. but the areds 2 clinical study showed that a specific nutrient formula can help reduce the risk of dry amd progression. ask your doctor now about an areds 2 supplement.

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joining us with more is nbc news correspondent and news now anchor, morgan ratford. good morning. who is waking up with potentially less debt? >> great question. this is fascinating. there's a lot of speculation about who will specifically benefit from this. just to set the stage, the vast majority of student debtholders, around 74% of them, actually owe less than $40,000 and more than half of all borrowers owe less than $20,000. that's all according to the education data initiative. in a nutshell there are three categories of people most affected by this. one, you have younger people just starting in their careers, just now starting to pay off those loans. number two, people with lower credit scores, and three, black and latino americans who will end up having a higher share of their debt eliminated when you compare that to their white counterparts. that's ultimately because the data there shows students of color tend to do a couple of things.

they take out smaller loans and owe more money after graduation. in fact, if you break down those numbers, 90% of black students and 70% of latinos take out loans compared to of 66% of white students. if you fast forward to four years after graduation the average black college graduate owes more than $52,000 compared to $30,000 for latinos. at the end of the day, a lot of those loan holders we spoke to, they look like a young activist who said he had to drop out of school and get a job after his mom had to self-deport back to mexico during the trump administration. a single mother still has the loan balance hanging over her head even though she had to quit school and go back to school. >> i'm 46 years old and still have this over my head. so this announcement definitely gives a little hope for

starters, some type of relief for us. >> i took out loans because i didn't have financial support from my family. i am one of four children, but i'm the only u.s. citizen in my family. i come from a mixed status household. i voted for the president specifically for this issue. $20,000 for pell recipients would be a major victory. >> you hear how juan was a politically motivating factor and then you hear the woman describe this portion of people who actually never got their degrees. 39% of those 43 million people who owe loans don't actually have a degree six years after the day they enrolled 37 that's a statistic we don't always talk about. every student loan holder we spoke to is ultimately happy about this decision, many said they hope this is the first step. even though this is likely to eliminate student debt for around 4.6 million people, there are 36 million who owe more than that threshold with new students taking on more debt every single

semester. >> thank you very much. i just want to change the subject, if i could, thanking you for always your brilliant reporting. >> thank you. >> but the news that soon we will get to meet morganita or -- [ speaking foreign language ] >> it's so thrilling, so exciting, and i'm so -- we admire you so much. >> jose, you know how i feel about you. if i can have a family half as loving and beautiful as yours, that is the goal. thank you, jose. >> i think it's going to be morganita. >> thank you, morgan, all the best. i appreciate it. i want to now go back to the conversation that morgan was reporting on. i want to bring in daisy reyes, associate professor of sociology at university of california, merced. thank you for being with us. for 14 years you have been

following 60 latino millennial college grads. what are some of their personal stories you know so well about how student loan debt has affected their lives? >> yeah, thank you for having me, jose. it's been wonderful to follow these individuals who are now in their 30s. i met many of them when they were 18 years old. many of them are first generation college goers, most of them are, the children of mexican immigrants and central american immigrants. when i met them, they were ambitious young people seeking to meet the aspirations of attaining a college degree and achieving the economic mobility that comes with that for them and their families, there was so much hope, right? so when i reinterviewed them in 2018 and 2019, many of them now in their late 20s, things weren't looking so great. there was a lot of anxiety and depression that came with the

financial situation they were in. they had graduated from college. many of them had enrolled in graduate school, which many professions require graduate degrees today. we know most graduate programs are not funded. they had ballooned in terms of the student debt they were carrying. they were trying to pay for housing. they were trying to make payments on the student loans they had taken out and they were also helping their parents. we know latinx children of immigrants are more likely to be helping their parents than other groups and less likely to be receiving parental support during college and also after college. we know a lot of times people who get support after college, this comes in the form of funding to move to a new city, take an unpaid internship, et cetera. none of my respondents had any of that. their lives look like sonia's. sonia's parents had less than a middle school education and they

worked really hard. her dad worked construction and they had managed to buy a home and get two rental properties when the great recession hit. they actually lost all three homes. so, sonia graduated from undergrad and she had to help her mother rent a one-bedroom apartment for her and her little brother and she wanted the other three of them together, pool money together for the first three years of ther graduating from undergrad. that's what ther life looked like. tomas, for example, was really lucky in the sense he felt he secured a full-time salaried job, graduating during the aftermath of the great recession and he was able to, you know, support his mother, who then had to live with him because she was unemployed and he supported her financially for several years and accrued lots of credit card debt at the same time trying to make student loan payments, rent payments, et cetera. this is what a lot of borrowers'

lives look like. >> professor, these are people who really make up the thread of our country, of our economy, that want to continue participating and following their american dream and sometimes they are burdened by so many things. professor, i appreciate you being with us this morning. up next, six months after russia invaded ukraine, vladimir putin issues a new order about the size of his nation's military. it's important. we'll talk about that next. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports." with 20 made-to-order griddle combos, there's a perfect plate for everyone. great value for all your favorites only from ihop. download the app and earn free food with every order.

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killed, including 2 children. the attack happened while ukraine was celebrating independence day. joining us from kyiv, megan fitzgerald. what more do we know about this attack? >> reporter: what we know, jose, is this happened overnight in the eastern part of the country. as you mentioned, 25 people were killed. we know some 31 people were injured and there was a separate attack that took place at a residential home where an 11-year-old boy was killed. now, russia is painting a different picture of what happened here. they're saying they took out some 200 of ukraine's military officials. ukraine, of course, has not responded to that. what we do know is president putin himself has signed a decree where he's trying to increase his military by 10%, wanting the total head count to be in the ballpark of a little more than 2 million. this, of course, comes after a top military official for the

russian army acknowledged the fact that russia's advancement in ukraine has stalled. meanwhile, big news out of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant that you touched on a few minutes ago. shelling in that area knocked the plant off from the power grid for the first time in the plant's history. this is significant because, as you said, right now thousands of people in the area are without power, sewer, water. this really goes to show you just how quickly a potential humanitarian crisis can happen from this plant. that's in addition to this international catastrophe that world leaders and certainly ukrainian officials are trying to avoid at that power plant. now, justice just within the last couple of hours the director general for the international atomic energy agency told a correspondent for france 24 that it could be days, not weeks, days before experts are allowed to go inside that plant. jose, you know that that is absolutely pivotal because this plant is certainly on the brink of disaster, according to many

officials, jose. >> the largest nuclear power plant in europe. i thank you so much. happening right now, we're monitoring possible testimony from one of former president trump's lawyers in front of a special grand jury investigating trump's efforts to interfere with the 2020 election in georgia. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports" orgia. you're watching "jose diaz-balart reports"

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52 past the hour, turning now to atlanta where we are following multiple developments in the investigation into potential interference in the 2020 election. this hour, attorneys for georgia governor brian kemp are in court, arguing that the grand jury subpoena issued by the fulton county d.a. should be quashed. also today, a former attorney for the trump campaign, jenna ellis, is scheduled to appear before the grand jury. joining us now from atlanta, nbc news correspondent blayne alexander. blayne, what's expected to occur today? >> reporter: well, jose, good morning to you. certainly, a lot of moving pieces here. lest start with jenna ellis. of course, she is the former legal advisor for the trump campaign, but for the purposes of 2020, as relates to 2020, prosecutors are interested in the role that she played in setting up a number of legislative hearings here in

georgia, essentially, that's where rudy giuliani, we've heard a lot about this, where rudy giuliani came forth and made a number of false claims about georgia's election. well, prosecutors want to, most likely, question her about the role she played in setting up those legislative hearings. now, as for governor brian kemp, that's the other thing we're following very closely, and it's fwhn contentious relationship between governor brian kemp and d.a. fani willis has spilled into public view as we've seen a number of court filings back and forth. attorneys for the governor are arguing that he should not be forced to testify, arguing executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, but they're really honing in on what they say has become a politicized process, saying that we're now very close to the november election and saying that this has become a politicized process. the d.a. and her team, prosecutors, are saying, that's not the case. that's not the case at all, and it's crucial to hear from the governor because he has specific

information that very closely pertains to what they're investigating. now, attorneys for governor brian kemp are saying, at least delay it until after the november election, saying that because it's so close to the election, because he has a state to run, it's impossible for him to prep and do what he needs to do to get ready to testify. they're also asking to hear what he is going to be asked, asking to get a sense of the questions he's going to be asked. now, it's certainly important to note that it is somewhat becoming politicized, jose, stacey abrams has already seized on this back and forth between the governor and the d.a., essentially trying to use that to link the governor more closely to former president trump. >> blayne alexander in atlanta, thank you. before we go, uplifting spirits. after the uvalde school shooting, 10-year-old survivor maya got to throw out the first pitch at the houston astros game on tuesday. >> and here's the pitch.

and a strike it is. tonight's ceremonial first pitch. >> maya underwent 20 surgeries, spent 66 days in the hospital, getting out just a couple of weeks ago. she lived just blocks away from the shooter, which made it too hard for her to go home after she was discharged from the hospital. during that game, she learned that a former astros player and other donors would pay for a new family home. that's great. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. you can always reach me on twitter and instagram, be sure to follow the show online. thank you for the privilege of your time. katy picks up with more news. t. katy picks up with more news astepro starts working in 30 minutes. so you can... astepro and go. ♪♪

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good to be with you, i'm katy tur. the justice department has one more hour to submit its proposed redactions on the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit to a federal judge, but like we've said, do not hold your breath. doj is arguing releasing the affidavit would severely harm its investigation, and the judge looks like he agrees. on monday, magistrate judge bruce reinhart wrote doj's redactions could render the document "meaningless gibberish," which would make releasing anything pointless. that being said, since monday, we have learned quite a bit about the volume of documents former president donald trump took with him