let's go right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. judge bruce reinhart did not take long to decide on unceiling the document after receiving the justice department's redactions today. >> he didn't. the judge moving very swiftly. less than four hours after the doj submitted its proposed redactions, the judge agreed to what they were recommending here. the doj has likely been working on this for the past week since the judge ruled they had to come up with these redactions at a hearing last thursday. they put forward this recommendation despite the thakt that they argued in court that they wouldn't even be able to come up with redactions that wouldn't significantly make the affidavit in their words devoid of content. somehow they found a way to satisfy the judge and the judge is agreeing to let the doj black out significant portions of this affidavit because the judge wrote in his order this. he said i find that the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit because disclo

jessica schneider is back with us. what's the latest, jessica?> reporter: alisyn, the judge here, bruce reinhart, he's opening the door to the possibility that portions of this affidavit could be publicly released. however, that would not happen at least for another week. so, the judge throughout this hearing, kiva is in the courtroom providing updates, and he continually had skepticism that the justice department needed to keep this entire affidavit under seal. the judge saying, i'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed, adding that there could potentially be portions that could be unsealed. so, now, the judge wants to work with the justice department to hear what portions they may be able to publicly pout out that would not endanger their investigation. he's putting in motion a schedule here. he's asking for the justice department to come back to him by thursday to propose redactions and explain why each piece of information needs to be kept from the public and if there is anything that can be released to the public, an

. >> more now on the release of the affidavit from jessica schneider. all righ . >> reporter: we could see the search warned in redacted formed at any moment and that is because the federal judge bruce line harts has ruled that the justice department must make public the version they submitted to him on thursday. now, this is a version that is likely significantly blacked out. but it still could reveal a few procedural details about why the search happened on august 8. the judge ro that the doj must reveal their version of the affidavit by noon on friday and the judge did agree that the doj does need to blackout substantial portions of the affidavit since it could reveal the identity witnesses and law enforcement agent and uncharged parties who might eventually be charged with crimes related to the ongoing criminal investigation into classified information. the judge also said that the doj could blackout details related to the sources and methods and grand jury information since we know of course the grand jury has been hearing evidence for months. they

cnn's jessica schneider has the details. >> tonight, new revelations that former president trump's two white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house counsel pat cipollone and his deputy, pat philbin, were trump's designated representatives to the national archive when trump left office. they could have insight about what was taken to mar-a-lago, and why 11 sets of classified documents remain there until last monday, when fda gents searched trump's palm beach home. those details come as a court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge announcing he will hold a hearing thursday afternoon on whether to publicly release the affidavit that provided the basis for last monday search. the justice department is seeking to keep it secret, saying any release would reveal highly sensitive information about witnesses, plus specific. so the doj is asking to keep it under wraps, because if it were released, it would provide too much of a road map onto the governments ongoing investigation. so the arguments are coming

. >> cnn's jessica schneider takes a closer look at cloaking conversations behind executive privilege. >> reporter: pressure continues to build on the justice department to charge trump. at the same time prosecutors have ramped up their investigation in recent days with subpoenas to several former white house top officials all while cnn has officially learned trump's legal team is in talked with doj officials about trump wanting to shield his talks with investigators. >> i think he's guilty of the most dirlereliction of duty. >> we're going to continue to follow the facts. i think the department of justice will do that. they'll have to look at it, understanding what it means if the facts and evidence are there and they decide not to prosecute, how do we then call ourselves a nation of laws. >> reporter: the attorney general has refused to divulge what prosecutors are planning. >> no person is above the law in this country. >> even a former president. >> maybe i'll say that again. no person is above the law in this country. i can't say it any more clearly than that. >> reporter: source

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> jessica, thank you so much.et's dig deeper with cnn law enforcement analyst peter licata. he's a former fbi supervisory special agent. peter, we're grateful to have your expertise this morning. when you go over this affidavit, does any of this read to you the way that the former president is describing it like a fishi expedition or witch hunt? >> good morning. no, it doesn't, when you look at the portions of the affidavit that aren't much but telling it wasn't just a random search of any and all boxes that may or may not be classified. it was a specific number. 184 documents broken down into 62 confidential, 92 secret, and 27 top secret documents. and moreover, it was a specific location that was addressed in that affidavit which was the foyer inside the residence. again, very specific to what was being searched for. and for the location of which witnesses reported that information was. >> so, a lot of the affidavit, as you noted, is pretty heavily redacted. what kind of specifics can you glean about the details

more now from jessica schneider in washington. >> reporter: new details about the fbi search of mar-a-lago are emerging as republican congressional leaders cry foul about the target and the timing. >> i know doing this 90 days before aen election reeks of politics. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy tweeting the department of justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization, warning about investigations if republicans take the house in november wri wri wri writing ag garland -- >> come and answer our questions about this action today which has never happened in american history. what was on the warrant, what were you really doing, what were you looking for, why not talk to president trump and have him give the information you are after? >> reporter: trump was in new york at trump tower when the search began monday morning. his son eric said he alerted trump about what was unfolding in florida. >> the purpose of the raid from what they said is because the national archives wanted to coop corroborate whether or not touchdown had any documents in his possession and my father has

cnn's jessica schneider has details. >> reporter: there are new revelations that former president trump'sop white house lawyers interviewed with the fbi about classified documents at mar-a-lago. white house counsel, pat sablone and his deputy, pat tillman, were trump's designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. so, they could have shared details with the fbi, maybe about what was taken to mar-a- lago, whether trump insisted that documents remained with him, and why exactly 11 sets of classified documents remained at mar-a-lago until last monday, when fbi agents searched trump's palm beach home. those details are coming out just as the court fight for more information about the search is looming. a federal judge, announcing, he will hold a hearing on thursday afternoon on whether to publicly release the affidavit of. that's what provided the basis for last monday's search. now, the justice department is seeking to keep it completely secret. they say, any release would reveal what they're calling highly-sensitive information about witnesses, plus specific in

>> all right, jessica schneider, we know you'll stay on top of it. thanks so much. joining me now broadcasting legend, former abc news anchor and white house correspondent, sam donaldson. sam, my friend, thanks, as always, for being with us. always a pleasure to have you on. >> glad to be here, jim. >> great to see you. this is a perfect subject, i think, for both of us to talk about. you've seen it all from vietnam to watergate to the clinton impeachment and the iraq war and now we have top secret documents recovered from the home of a former president who still refuses to admit he lost an election. how should this story be covered in the eyes of sam donaldson? >> well, you know, when i heard about it, the fact that the fbi had seized from his safe and other places these documents which should be held some place else particularly the top secret ones which must be held some place else. it may be a violation of the espionage act of 1917. that's a very serious crime. i thought of al capone. a great big gangster in the 1920s and '30s, bootlegged millions of gallons of

we'll get straight to cnn's jessica schneider. when we finally see this document? >> well, we'll find out just how much the department of justice was successful in keeping blocked from the public and what the judge and the department of justice is allowing the public to see here. in just the past few minutes we've actually been seeing a lot of activity on the court's document. most of it has been under seal. but this indicates that something should be coming very soon. we're just about one minute from noon. the thing is a lot of people are checking the court documket rig now and that may lead to somewhat of a delay in downloading this information. so what we do know from the department of justice, what they previously said at a court hearing, this is a lengthy document. it has many, many details about multiple witnesses that they have spoken with, their investigative techniques, sources and methods. however, it has been quite clear from the judge in this case that that information will in fact be blacked out. it will be redacted. t

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> and senator kyrsten sinema has emerged as a key holdout on her party's economic package, the only democrat not to pledge her support after chuck schumer and joe manchin reached a deal last week on the bill. sinema has been raising questions about some of the bill's proposed tax increases such as a 15% minimum tax on corporations. she has also expressed concerns about raising taxes on so-called carried interest which would impact private equity and hedge fund managers. scisinema has apparently relayeo top democrats that she wants that provision out of the bill. >>> a new economic survey is suggesting the u.s. is not in a recession which was welcome news on the wall street. all three major u.s. indices closed in the back after a survey, it said that the service sector grew last month reinforcing the view that the recession is not under way. the dow gained more than 400 points or almost 1.3% and the nasdaq and s&p 500 were up by even bigger margins. let's check on the markets currently. if we look at the futures, they are all down. i think those con

. >> okay, let's go to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider, so, jessica, the doj has submitted their proposed redactions. what happens now? >> reporter: well, now, we wait, and unfortunately, we don't know h how long we are going to be waiting for. like you said, the filing from prosecutors that came in under seal, so not revealed to the public, just before that noon deadline, and right now, the judge, bruce reinhart, he's reviewing what doj has said they believe is okay to make public. now, it's very likely that most of this affidavit is blacked out with doj's recommendations, because they have made very clear that there is little, if anything, that can be released here without compromising their ongoing criminal investigation. but the judge has pushed repeatedly, saying he believes the public should be informed here. so, to that note, right after doj filed, several media outlets, including cnn, filed a motion with the judge to immediately unseal and make public whatever doj has submitted. you know, that way, the public could see immediately the extensive redactions that doj i

cnn's jessica schneider has the details. >> reporter: former president trump, now claiming that documents taken from mar-a-lago are protected by executive privilege and attorney client privilege, but the reality here is they still aren't his documents to keep. under the presidential records act, they do belong to the national archives. plus, given that 11 sets of the documents have various levels of classified designations, including top-secret, democrats are now demanding that the director of national intelligence, avril haynes, conduct an immediate review of the materials because the national security implications of what was found at mar-a- lago, and concerns that it could cause grave damage if that information fell into the wrong hands. on the flipside, republicans are demanding more details. some say, they want to see the affidavit of that lead out the basis for that search warrant. it is highly likely, though, that the affidavit would be unsealed, because of the delicate information and resources that investigators likely disclosed in that affidavit of. and these calls for actions,

i want to go back to jessica schneider with the new information on another legal front in this investigation. jessica, what's going on. >> coming in just moments ago, we finally got that response from the trump team that had been directed by a district court judge in the southern district of florida. now, remember, it was just earlier this week that trump's team filed in florida enthrall court for a special master. basically they hadn't acting on the search warrant, but what they did act on two weeks later was they wanted a special master a third party appointed to sift through these documents that the fbi has been sifting through and separate some of the materials over concerns of attorney/client privilege, executive privilege. that was a little muddy because it wasn't even clear that there was even any materials that would have pertained to executive privilege since most of these documents pertained to national defense information, classified material. >> because the fear is if you see it, you can't unring the bell. it can't be unseen, so have a separate team prevent it. >> right. that was

jessica schneider has that story. >> reporter: trump's legal team and justice department lawyers are gearing up for a court fight thursday afternoon. and it is all over whether the affidavit that provided the basis for the search at mar-a-lago last week should be made public. the federal judge will be able to read over arguments from both sides before the hearing and then this judge will pepper both sides with questions before he deliberates and makes his decision. the justice department we know is adamantly opposed to anything being released from the affidavit. the details in the affidavit are what allowed the affidavit to secure the search warrant and the doj has said it could potentially derail their ongoing investigation if it is unsealed because it would reveal specific investigative techniques and highly sensitive information about witnesses that they have already talked to. so you can expect that the justice department, prosecutors, will be arguing forcefully against the unsealing of the affidavit in court thursday afternoon. and we expect trump's team will be arguing for mayb

as cnn's jessica schneider reports, executive privilege concerns could prove to be a complication for >> reporter: the justice department escalating its investigation into january 6th. with cnn learning of two new key subpoenas to the former white house counsel and his deputy. pat cipollone and patrick philbin are the highest ranking white house officials to be subpoenaed so far. >> this is probably bad for former president trump. >> reporter: prosecutors are deep into their investigation from trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. two top aides to vice president pence appeared before a grand jury last month. subpoenas have already been served to several people who schemed to create fake slates of electors saying trump won the 2020 election in several swing states. earlier this summer fbi agents seized lawyer john eastman's phone and raided jeffrey clark's home. >> can i call my lawyer? >> it shows this is more than what did john eastman do, the attorney that basically came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election. it probably is a very deep interest on what the preside

we'll bring in jessica schneider. we have seen attacks in cincinnati, ohio, in arizona, in phoenix, we saw people carrying guns outside the fbi office there. now, we have barricades around the bureau's building here in washington. there's major concern that something dangerous could happen. >> yeah, there's a major heightened threat environment, alex. so much here that the security division here, they've notified the fbi, 30,000 employees, they're saying stay vigilvigilat these facilities. on stop of that, a joint bulletin from fbi and homeland security laying out it's been intensified. there's been a threat of dirty bombs outside of washington here and calling for civil war and armed rebellion. because of that, we're seeing precautions. we're seeing it outside of washington at the cooper building. that's where the fbi headquarters are located. they put up that fencing around the building and really the threats have only increased since the search warrant was executed at mar-a-lago one week ago. our team is now told t

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> thank you so much.ing in a former federal prosecutor and author of the book "a spy in plain sight." jessica, laying out all of these legal troubles the president faces and every day a new development, we're learning now that pat cipollone and patrick philbin, two white house lawyers, were interviewed by the fbi earlier this year. that is a huge development. could they provide information that's criminally implicate the former president? >> maybe. i would be very surprised if their testimony in those interviews was full and complete. just like i think that giuliani will take the fifth or attorney/client privilege. i think that those lawyers would have done the same thing. though they may have been -- remember, at that point when they were interviewed, they were trying to negotiate, right, with the justice department about return of these documents. so they may have given information, enough information, over that rouse suspicion if you will and let they will another subpoena and able to videotape certain

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> let's talk more about all of this. here with me now is cnn contributor and author of the book "the truth about trump," michael deantonio. so good to see you, michael. after listening to everything we just heard, do you think trump is more worried right now about the legal peril that he could face in this investigation or his political future? >> well, of course it has to be both. i actually think he's probably more worried about his political future, only because prosecutors are very reluctant to go after presidents, of course. richard nixon was pardoned. i think there is sensitivity, especially with merrick garland, the attorney general, who was careful not to violate the fbi's rule about not interfering with elections. they set a 90-day sort of buffer that really discourages any actions of the sort taken at mar-a-lago. so it's clear the doj is moving carefully. i'm not sure that the prosecutor in atlanta will be able to move forward, because there will be petitions related to a local court taking on a national figure

more that from jessica schneider. >> reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. >> much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. >> reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj's warrant application where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records and obstruction of a federal investigation. the newly rele

. >> let's get right to cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. this tension between the lawmakers and the inspector general has been going on for a while, but it seems to be escalating. >> it's an ongoing battle. we're seeing this escalation, between two top democrats, bennie thompson, carolyn maloney, with the dhs ig and now they're cuesiaccusing the ig of obstruction. is this goes back to the claim that the ig failed to notify congress that these texts were gone from the secret service from that period around january 6th. right after that, thompson and maloney demanded he recuse himself from any investigation into the secret service. now they're taking it a step further, saying he really hasn't cooperated with them in the past several weeks so they're writing this in the letter they just sent today. they're saying, in response to the committee's requests, you have refused to produce responsive documents and blocked employees in your office from appearing for transcribed interviews. your obstruction of the committee's investigations is unaccepta

jessica schneider. joining us now, the former fbi deputy director and rew andrew .you look at the scope of the investigation and the trump legal team is in direct communication with the u.s. justice department, what does that tell you? >> well there is no question, wolf, that this investigation is active, it is vital and it seems to be drawing a closer bead right on the center target who we could all i think accurately assume is the former president. the engagement of trump's legal team with the prosecutors is really remarkable and i think it tells us two things. one, they are very concerned about what these conversations might reveal if they are not shielded by the privilege. the fact that they're engaging this aggressively and this early in the process, tells me that they are desperate to keep those conversations off the deck. and the second thing, from a tactical perspective, i think it is possible that these conversations are having with prosecutors are going on record with the fact that the president intends to semly formally invoke the privilege in an effort t

cnn's jessica schneider has our report. >> reporter: new information related to documents of the mar- a-lago search sharpening the focus on former president trump as a possible subject of a criminal probe. the application for the search warrant, unsealed thursday, that reveals that among the crimes the doj is investigating includes the willful retention of national defense information. language that could point to the role of trump, who would have unauthorized possession of national documents while in office, but not once he moved out of the white house and mar- a-lago. >> the papers don't specify donald trump specifically, you usually don't specify a person, but we can figure out what they mean by the words they did give us. >> reporter: trump's former attorney, rudy giuliani, who is the target of another criminal probe out of georgia investigating fraud, lashed out defending the former president. >> now they want to make them responsible for taking classified documents and preserve them. really, if you look at the espionage act, it is not really about taking the documents, it is abo

for more on the latest in the trump investigations, i want to bring in jessica schneider and also athena jones who is in manchester where mike pence spoke today. trump's team are on the clock. they have to tell a judge by 9:00 a.m. tomorrow whether they support unsealing the mar-a-lago affidavit which would explain in detail why that raid took place. how does that factor into the judge's decision do you think? >> the judge will be able to get a look at the trump team's legal arguments once they submit their filing tomorrow morning. the doj has already submitted its acrgument on monday and the judge will be peppering both sides are questions at the hearing at 1:00 p.m., it will be after that that the judge will probably deliberate and make that decision whether to unseal the after the. but what we know is that the doj is adamantly opposed to unsealing this after the. as you mentioned, this affidavit lays on us the entire reasoning that they wanted to get the search warrant, lays out the probable cause. so a lot of specific details. and doj is saying if this is released, it would completel

jessica schneider. thank you very, very much. let's bring in our legal and national political experts. let's start with preet bharara. what are your main takeaways from this heavily redacted document? >> well, we've learned some things, and have not been able to learn other things. in some ways, i'm disappointed, as a very, very curious person. but on the other hand, i'm not, because as a former prosecutor and someone who wants to be as sure as the government is that their investigation is not u undermined, i agree with the redactions. we did learn, however, that the government seems to have been very, very concerned for specific reasons about both retaliation against witnesses and about obstruction. we've also learned, which i think is significant, as the documents portray, there were several or multiple civilian witnesses who brought evidence to bear in support of probable cause that a crime has been committed. not one witness, not two witnesses, but multiple witnesses. the one slightly disappointing thing, i suppose, is that t

jessica schneider, thank you very much for that report.it. >> let's get more on this with cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers and cnn contributor and former nixon white house counsel john dean. thank you all so much for joining me this evening. according to "the washington post" that was sent 100 days after trump left office. what do you think that says about just how long the national archives has been trying to get these documents back. >> this underlines that the national archives is being concerned for quite some time about what trump and people around him might have at mar-a-lago. so we have sort of heard about this sort of exchange before. the post story really is filling out what happened and the alarmism within the national archives, but there was a more anodine way that the archives said before. when the story broke that there were these 15 boxes recovers from mar-a-lago, one of the house committees asked the archives how far back does this go and the archives responded that they had ongoing communications with representatives of fo

jessica schneider has the details. >> reporter: the threats against fbi employees have intensified inhe past week ever since the search warrant was executed at tr trump's mar-a-lago home. the fbi is investigating what they are calling an un unprecedented number of threats including against two of the special agents listed on the court records as being involved in the mar-a-lago search. the agent's names were plaqued o blacked out in the official copy, but they weren't in the leaked copies that was put out by the conservative media outlets earlier in the day on friday. plus we've learned that the fbi has noticed an uptick in what is called doxxing where people online publicly post the personal information of fbi employees who could then be targeted by people across the country. and we've even seen threats against the judge in florida who approved this warrant, his contact information was taken offline by the court so his personal information was no longer out there. so a very heightened threat environment, so much so that the fbi headquarters in washington is now surrounded by a fence,

cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is following this story for us.as at a political event in new hampshire today and he was specifically asked if he would appear before the select committee. >> what's interesting is he left the door open to this possibility, but notably he didn't commit to anything. a source is telling our gloria borger not to read too much into it because when it comes down to it the vice president would have strong constitutional concerns about any agreement to testify before congress. in fact, here's how the former vice president framed it. >> if there was an invitation to participate i would consider it. any invitation directed to me i would have to reflect on the unique role that i was serving in as vice president. it would be unprecedented for a vice president to be summoned on capitol hill, but i don't want to pre-judge. if there is any formal invitation rendered to us we would give it due consideration. >> to note, though, wolf it is not completely unprecedented. the senate website actually lists all of the presidents and vic

. >> and we start with cnn jessica schneider with a closer look at how the fbi got to this point and the outrage coming from many republicans. >> i think it's another unjust, made up thing. >> signs of support for trump along with trump detractors as more details emerge of the fbi's extraordinary step monday to execute a search warrant at trump's mar-a-lago home. >> that's right, another day in paradise. this was a strange day. >> trump reacted during a virtual rally for sarah palin after he issued a lengthy statement. these are dark times for our nation, as my beautiful home, mar-a-lago, in palm beach, florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of fbi agents. nothing like this has ever happened to a president of the united states before. trump was in new york at trump tower when the search began monday morning. his son eric said he alerted trump about what was unfolding in florida. >> the purpose of the raid was because the national archives wanted to cooperate, whether or not donald trump had any documents in his possession. and my father has worked so

cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider joins us to talk about this. ing, jessica? >> reporter: you know, the ag here, morgan errick garland lef the possibility this is the first of many lawsuits against states with near abortion bans. in idaho their near total ban with limited exceptions is set to take effect august 25th. so the doj is suing to block the law from taking effect. they're saying this law banning abortions it conflicts with another federal law that requires doctors in emergency situations to provide patients with stabilizing treatments. they're saying a stabilizing treatment in some cases could, in fact, include abortions. what we're really seeing is the problem that doctors are running into, not only in idaho but other states, is that when patients are presenting with emergencies, sometimes they are getting on the phones, these doctors, with their lawyers, looking at the legal ramifications, rather than jumping in to help a patient who might need an abortion because of a medical emergency with the mother or to save the mother's life. so t

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jessica schneider has the details. >> reporter: the justice department escalating its investigation into cnn learning of two new key subpoenas to the former white house counsel and his deputy. pat cipollone and patrick philbin are the highest ranking white house officials to be subpoenaed so far. >> this is probably bad for former president trump. >> reporter: prosecutors are already deep into their investigation of plans from trump allies to overturn the 2020 election. two top aides to vice president pence appeared before a grand jury last month. subpoenas have already been served to several people who schemed to create fake slates of electors, saying trump won the 2020 election in several swing states. earlier this summer, fbi agents seized lawyer john eastman's phone and raid ed his home. >> this is more than what did john eastman do, the attorney that came up with that crazy scheme to overturn the election, and it probably has a very deep interest on what the president did. >> reporter: cipollone's subpoena is significant because he was close to the president and in the west wing on

jessica schneider, thank you for the reporting. kim, phil, stay with us.e'll get into the potential for obstruction and this document says this does not expose all that they have found in their investigation. so what could happen next? we'll talk about that. >>> much more on the affidavit including the reaction from trump allies. >>> also, expect more information pain in the future. wall street not happy with jerome powell's comments. stocks are sinking. we'll explain what's happening. new astepro allergy. no allergy spray is faster. with the speed of astepro, almost nothing can slow you down. because astepro starts working in 30 minutes, while other allergy sprays take hours. and astepro is the first and only 24-hour steroid free allergy spray. now without a prescription. astepro and go. i have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. now, there's skyrizi. with skyrizi, 3 out of 4 people achieved 90% clearer skin at 4 months... and skyrizi is just 4 doses a year, after 2 starter doses. serious allergic reactions and an increased risk of infections, or a lower

cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider reports on today's important hearing in florida. >> tonight, a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public, saying i'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge bruce reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing details saying that could derail their ongoing criminal investigation. >> much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans and to protect the integrity of our investigations. >> reporter: judge reinhart has already released the search warrant and the inventory of items taken from mar-a-lago, including 11 sets of classified documents. today he made several more filings public, including the doj's warrant application, where they describe the potential offenses being investigated as the willful retention of national defense information, concealment or remo

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jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >>> cnn legal analyst areva martin joins us from los angeles.nks so humuch for being here with us. so much was redacted, so what did we learn here? >> well we learned, kim, that donald trump was both pet ewe lent and dishonest. petulant because he refused to turn over documents that the national archives and the department of justice repeatedly asked him to turn over and dishonest in the sense that he told them in january when he delivered boxes to the national archives that that was all that he had. that he was turning over all of the classified and sensitive documents that he had taken to mar-a-lago and now we know that to be a complete falsehood. even though the affidavit was heavily redacted, names and other key pieces of information were not made available to the public, there was enough there, kim, to determine that donald trump acted in a way that potentially could cause him to be in a great deal of legal trouble. >> yeah. you know, is that what you're saying that he didn't turn over the stuff when he was asked and so on, that he wasn't t

but no response from the inspector general's office. >> jessica schneider reporting for us. thank you very much. i want to bring in cnn's chief political analyst, gloria borger, cnn's analyst kasie hunt and elliot williams. el el eliott, i'll start with you. what does it teal you they interviewed the two top white house lawyers into the handling of classified, very sensitive documents? >> it's clear that the fbi is homing in on the disstrepsies in the handing over of documents. clearly a red flag got set off somewhere between june and now in which a number of boxes were handed over, but not the full amount. these are both -- it's important to note these are both senior white house staff, but not sort of principles. not -- it's not the president himself. that's where you often get the most valuable testimony you're going get, from people who were around subject to very important, very sensitive conversations, but not the president himself. they are getting very close to the president. and this and other investigations which we may talk about later on. >> let me follow up with

cnn's jessica schneider joins us with that. we now know there's more than 100 classified documents, 700 pages. that's a number we haven't heard before. >> reporter: it's not, anderson. we're seeing just how voluminous it was. this is from what they collected in january, not what they just got with this search warrant, which was even more. what we're also learning is really how the archives tried to work with trump's legal team. we see in this letter, you know, they carefully considered his claims of executive privilege. they ultimately decided he couldn't claim privilege, but they did delay handing over these 700 pages of classified documented, delayed handing it over to the fbi, intelligence communities for one month even though it says in this letter these agencies needed to do a damage assessment to determine if trump's continued possession of these at his private club, where they weren't properly secured, whether it endangered national security. even though it was john solomon who first published the letter, the archives we

talk about the potential legal fallout of all of this, jessica schneider is back with us. only is she a reporter but she is also a lawyer, which is why we like her so much. we also have deputy assistant attorney general elliott williams and peter strzok. we like you too, anyone who's not a reporter. fyi, don't feel badly about it. look, first of all, peter, think about this. you have obviously overseen a number of investigations. you know how this looks. you know how there's been a lot of backlash. but then is this kind of indication that they were able to find things, the affidavit says, hey, here is what we're looking for. they didn't have a redacted memo for the entire thing. is this some form of vindication for those who have doubted why this took place? >> i don't know that i'd call it so much vindication as just confirmation that doj and the fbi are doing things exactly right. they're doing things in accordance with the law and by the book. when you see what's here in front of us unredacted, that's a really disturbing tale. but keep in mind half of this, 18 pages eas

all right, jessica schneider, thank you very much. let's dig deeper with our legal, political and law enforcement experts preet bharara. how high is the bar to execute a search warrant? a search warrant on a former president of the united states? why didn't they just issue a subpoena? >> well, the legal bar and threshold is the same for everyone in the united states of america, and that's probable cause. i take from your question the implication that maybe the bar should be higher, and i think some people in the real world appreciate that if you're going undertake a law enforcement action like that that is very fraught, it's going to be scrutinized heavily, that involves the former sitting president of the united states, your proof better be higher than mere probable cause and every t has to be crossed, every i dotted. why they didn't issue a subpoena is a mystery at this moment. clearly something happened between the early part of june that the report talked about and the early part of august that we're in now during which time there

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> the white house and democrats celebrating a major legislative victory. president joe biden signed the 750 billion dollar inflation reduction act into law on tuesday. calling it one of the most significant pieces of legislation in u.s. history. >> too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with the feet. too often we had the biggest microphones to the critics and the cynics. who delighted declaring failure while those committed to making real progress do the hard work of governing. making progress in this country is as big and complicated has ours clearly is not easy. it has never been easy. but with unwavering conviction, commitment to patients, progress does come. >> this legislation includes almost 370 billion dollars to fight climate change. also gives many to power to negotiate -- a tags affordable care act subsidies for another three. years also poses a 15% minimum corporate taxes are the largest u.s. companies. much more to come here on cnn, our coverage of critical premiere races in wyoming and alaska, that i

cnn's jessica schneider joins us now. so what do you know about the fbi's interviews with pat cipollone and patrick philbin? >> reporter: yeah. anderson, we know that the most senior former trump officials to be interviewed in what we know is really this ongoing criminal investigation into the possible mishandling of the classified documents and this revelation that they have, in fact, talked to the fbi, it's significant because, you know, they were trump's designated representatives to the national archives when trump left office. so they would have these details. they'd be able to give the fbi about what was taken to mar-a-lago. also, you know, whether trump insisted that documents remain with him, what his intent or mind-set was, and that could really be crucial for prosecutors if they ended up maybe charging trump. and cipollone and philbin, maybe they could even shed some light on why 11 sets of classified documents remained at mar-a-lago until last monday when the fbi agents searched his home. so with both of them,

we're going to go to jessica schneider who has the details for us. jessica. >> yeah, abby. what we're getting right now is not actually the redacted affidavit but rather the memorandum of law the doj also submitted yesterday explaining the reasoning behind the need to redact a lot of this information. so it's really two different documents at this point. one of the documents is a lengthy legal explainer. the other one is pretty interesting. it goes through the exact paragraphs of this affidavit. the document i'm looking at shows about 78 paragraphs of the affidavit in all and then lists all the reasons why information should be redacted. however, all of those explanations are in fact redacted. then you go to the memorandum of law that has been released and it tells the judge exactly why certain elements need to be kept out of public view. the very first thing it talks about is the identity of these witnesses. this is something that the government has talked about during that court hearing, talking about really the danger to these witnesses that have provided information thr

let's begin this hour with cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider. jess, this affidavit could be released any moment, sometime between now and noon. walk us through this whole process, what we will see, what we probably won't see. >> yeah, in i minute now, guys. what's interesting about this is it's all been a relatively rapid process. you know, it was less than four hours after the doj submitted their proposed redactions that the judge ruled, yes, in fact, he would accept that proposal and it would be released to the public. like you said, in just two hours here. and what's notable is that the judge seems to be agreeing with what the doj has proposed, despite the fact that what we saw in court just about a week ago was doj pushing back substantially against the judge, saying even if they issued a redacted version of this affidavit, they said that there would be so many redactions that it would render the document essentially devoid of content. the judge at the hearing seemed to push back on that saying, no, there must be something in this affidavit

jessi jessica schneider is out front live in washington. jessica, obviously the context here, we have this breaking news that a search warrant by the fbi has been executed on mar-a-lago. we're waiting for more details on that very significant headline, and it comes on the day of these texts. alex jones' texts. also a core person on january 6th. what more are you learning about the importance of these texts to the january 6th committee. >> well, erin, everything seems to be ramping up here on these parallel tracks. the committee, the department of justice investigation, but as for the committee here, you know, they want to know a lot more about jones' role on january 6th and how it plays in, and these texts they may at least shed a bit more light, so we know that alex jones was the central player on january 6th. we saw him there on the restricted u.s. capitol grounds. he riled up the protesters. you know, he never actually entered the capitol, and he even insisted he never helped plan any of the violence, but the committee believes that there

jessica schneider, thanks so much. perspective now -- from john dean, former federal judge, nancy corner. she's currently a senior lecturer at harvard law school. also with us tonight, cnn -- analyst and former fbi deputy director, andrew mccabe. judge gardner, were you surprised the judge made this call to release the redacted affidavit? >> i was, i was very surprised. the only thing that i think your reporter had right, it must be that the government showed that it can disclose something without, you know, without sort of unpacking the entire investigation. the other thing is that between the time of the search on the eighth until now, a lot has come out about the timeline, about the efforts to get this material and the transitive on trump's part. so, there may be public facts that they can happily disclose, not happily, but gladly disclose. you know, without jeopardizing the kinds of issues that she described. so, once he saw that it was possible and they saw that it was possible, he was prepared to do it. >> so and

jessica schneider, cnn, washington. as jessica, reported the investigation is ramping up in donald trump's efforts to overturn georgia's election results in 20. 28 judges ordering former trump attorney jenna alice to appear before the grand jury. it is believed alice help trump and his associates pope paul -- wolf cleanse election fraud in georgia. court date yet to be decided. the white house and democrats are celebrating a major victory, president joe biden signed the 750 dollar inflation reaction act into law tuesday calling, one the most significant pieces of legislation in u.s. history. too often, we confuse noise with substance. too often, we confuse setbacks with the feet. too often, we had the biggest microphones to the critics and the cynics, who's -- failure, to those committed to making real progress to the hard work of government. making progress in this country has big and complicated is clearly not easy it's never been easy. but with unwavering conviction, commitment, and patience, progress does come. >> al

cnn's jessica schneider has that. ordered today. >> yeah, so anderson, the judge telling doj to really go back to the drawing board and find a way to at least release some of this information from the affidavit. the judge is telling prosecutors to things. oppose redactions, but also better explain why they need to keep large sections of this secret. so the judge has set a deadline. he wants the recommendations next thursday at noon. and after that point, the judge says, he might have a dent additional confidential discussions with doj before you make that final decision about what to release. so, you know, parts of it are likely to get publicly released. but maybe not big portions. and certainly not the juiciest and most consequential details. however, the judge did release several filings related to the search today. there were mostly general information, but we did get some insight into this criminal investigation. so for example, the application from the warrant, it really better

cnn justice correspondent jessica schneider is with me now. we have members of congress dema dema demanding answers. >> all coming out over the weekend. republicans demand more from the attorney general garland in particular they want that affidavit that served as the basis of the search warrant to be unsealed. that's highly unlikely providing the basis for the search warrant including sources that federal investigators relied toen to argue to the judge of probable cause for the search warrant and then democrats demand in particular the director of national intelligence to conduct a review. this was the letter that was sent from congressman schiff and congresswoman maloney. they said a search warrant and the inventory of property describe classified documents held by former president trump including among the most sensitive and highly protected in the u.s. government. the conduct has potentially put our national security at grave risk and demands a full review. alex, both members of congress for the respective committees requesting a classifie