as of now, judge rinehart moved very quickly here.hrough the entire thing and believes that the government's redactions are appropriate. i would suspect there are a lot of redactions from the government. we may just see the front page which has the name of the former president and the address of mar-a-largo. >> we're going to bring in andy mccarthy in a few minutes. i have you another minute here. so when you -- that's the question. we all have this experience before, right? the documents come out. and then there's so much in them that is blacked out. i think of a lot of releases that happen during the russia investigation that was on going for several years. so it could be that there's a name here, a location there. it seems that this -- would this judge look at the way they did this and say that, you know, you have so much redacted here there's no public value in releasing this the way that you have it? go back and work on it again. he didn't say that. >> sandra: no, he didn't, which makes me think that he's okay with sending us eig

as you mentioned judge bruce rinehart is giving the justice department one week to decide which item in the affidavit against the former president should remain sealed and which should be released. the justice department is likely to ask for a lot of different redactions here. they say this case is still very much in the works. they are also worried that information released could put some witnesses who are cooperating with the government at risk. >> citing intense interest in the case against former president donald trump today lawyers from multiple media outlets argued for the government town seal a criminal affidavit and additional materials outlining where the federal investigation stands and what led up to last week's unprecedented search of mar-a-lago. trump's florida estate. >> that is the public interest. we are entitled to monitor the affairs of our government at all levels. and that is the interest in this essence that we were asserting today. >> federal prosecutors told judge bruce rinehart full disclosure of such materials could severely impact the government's case as it

rinehart worked for the south florida's u.s.ney's office during the beginning of the epstein investigation. he was on the prosecution side and then after epstein was given like that mysterious sweetheart deal rinehart switched sides and went on the defense and represented all of epstein's employees like pilot and scheduler. usually when a person helps facilitate a child rape they get in trouble but this rinehart guy got his friends out of trouble. they didn't even flip on epstein. you know, usually when you fly kids to get raped at an island, you usually get punished for that or schedule the rape. usually you go jail. this trump hating judge made sure these guys didn't go to jail. i mean, you can't even look into this judge because his biohas been scrubbed from the official government website. josh hawley is a missouri senator and member of the judiciary committee and he joins me now. this is disgusting what is going on here. you couldn't have a more disgusting little plot to hatch this raid. >> well, jesse, this judge seems lik

what i can tell you is judge bruce rinehart after just about four hours, that was the deadline, noon today for the government for the go ahead and propose these redaction tos the affidavit, four hours later he comes out with an order and says "i find the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause to seal portions of the affidavit because disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties. the investigation strategy, direction, scope and methods." what judge rinehart is saying, neil, by noon tomorrow and could happen before, the department of justice is ordered to publish on the public docket their proposed redactions meaning judge rinehart is okay with whatever redactions the department of justice proposed and its likely going to be a document full of lengthy redactions. we've seen them in the past where there's been big black chunks of redactions. that is something that we can expect likely to see tomorrow. because two weeks ago in this building, attorney general merrick garland announced he was in favor of

then rinehart can decide whether or not he agrees with those redactions. after weeks, possibly months of appeals, we'll probably end up with, well, no new information. just like today, when the judge unsealed some documents related to the warrant. they didn't really tell us anything. the cover letter, a motion to seal. not exactly transparency. it's just another thin coat of paint over this raid and investigation that makes it look like rinehart is playing fair. but rinehart is so biased that he once had to recuse himself from the last trump case. not to mention he is obama donor. and he, again, used to represent jeffrey epstein who, by the way, did not kill himself. this is all by design. the doj made sure they found a judge who would play ball. it doesn't seem like we're going to get truth, at least not any time soon. a lawyer fighting for the release of the affidavit says this proceeding is all about making sure the judge and the doj are, quote: going by the book. >> this is a proceeding that is about the credibility of all the players. so, whether the

. >> federal magistrate judge bruce rinehart issuing a new order monday signaling he likely will not release the mar-a-lago search affidavit in its entirety. any returned evidence could include material covered by executive or attorney-client privilege. a claim made by trump's legal team. in court last thursday, rinehart announced he was considering unsealing and releasing parts of the affidavit to the public. given intense public interest. but, in monday's filing he played devil's advocate arguing that unsealing could impede the ongoing investigation through obstruction of justice and witness intimidation or retaliation. >> that's all i can say at this time. >> attorney general merrick garland continues to remain tight-lipped about the search following his public comment in favor of unsealing the search warrant. criticism of garland from republicans rose by the hour. >> the lack of transparency, it's infuriating. that is where they have absolutely blown it, and that's whereby they have lost the trust of the american people. because it just looks political. >> form everywhere preside

last week in court judge rinehart says he was leaning toward unsealing parts of the affidavit for the public to see. the doj warned unsealing their preliminary evidence could jeopardize their ongoing probe and threaten the safety of witnesses interviewed by the fbi. over the weekend rinehart had some time to think about it and in a court filing just a few days ago said he may release some of it or none depending on the arguments made by the justice department. he wrote: releasing the affidavit could impede the ongoing investigation through obstruction of justice and witness intimidation or retaliation. this factor waives in favor of sealing. the former president has said they are releasing the affidavit unredacted in full full for the public to see. after tomorrow's deadline, another federal judge eileen cannon gave the deadline of friday resubmit the request for a special master a third party arbiter to take a look how doj is handling this evidence. the feds have had two and a half weeks to look through the evidence. they seized some of it labeled classified. bret? >> bret: it's comp

let's start with the judge bruce rinehart.donated to obama and left his position with the south florida u.s. attorney's office to work for jeffrey epstein's team, a convicted child sex trafficker. then in 2018 rinehart became a magistrate judge but maybe it's just me, you know, not exactly the guy i want balancing the scales of justice, which brings me to attorney general merrick garland. did he give the green light for the fbi to raid trump's home? of course he did. aren't you glad we didn't put him on the supreme court? the guy wouldn't even help protect the homes of the supreme court justices. but he is not alone. the entire justice department is rotten to the core. we know that washington's fbi field office orchestrated yesterday's raid in mar-a-lago. and the assistant assistant director in charge of that bureau is a guy named steven dan tone know. in 2020 he was promoted to d.c. but where did he come from? he came from detroit where he was a parted of that botched kidnapping plot of gretchen whitmer. you know, the whole t

that's judge rinehart in florida saying he will agree to redactions.s met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause to seal portions of the affidavit because disclosure would reveal, one, the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents and uncharged parties and, two, the investigation strategy direction, scope, sources and methods. the "wall street journal" op-ed says washington's mar-a-lago prosecution by leaks -- sorry, you will get these redacted items, they could look like this. we saw this in the hunter biden documents, the fauci documents. that's what we could see. the "wall street journal," sorry about that washington's mar-a-lago prosecution by at least the justice department wants the search affidavit secret while details spill to the press. we are back with the panel. josh, what do you make of this and the fallout from it? obviously tomorrow will shed some light or no light depending on what we see. >> i don't think it will shed a whole lot of light. i think we will learn some details about the justification for the search. bu

what is interesting about judge rinehart the potential rehearsal that he was hinted at. information related to this. what did you make of that? >> well, i i think that the blow-back from this warrant was swift and severe. i don't think that they actually thought it would be as big a deal as it is right now, which to all of us is a shocking notion in an of itself. i think, however, that the island of a special master is really good. because it takes the power away from doj and puts it as david spunt said in a neutral territory. doj, as many people don't know, is a very political organization. i say that because when a new president or new administration comes in, so many of the top layers of doj leave to become consultants and other people come back in. the same thing happens when it reverts parties. so my point is, i think it's a really good idea for a special master because by its nature, doj is a pretty political, very powerful machine. >> neil: maureen, if there should be a master appointed, is it up to judge rinehart to decide that? if he's hinting that that would no

that is spelled out in the new document posted online, this is what the judge rinehart said he would order. he would order the separate material different from the affidavit released. it's five pages long. i'm not seeing anything super surprising compared to anything that we saw with the search warrant a week ago. it's here an indication of what the government was doing before this search at mar-a-largo indicating that they realized there was a highly sensitive nature to what they would be doing, worried about the investigation which they said today is in the early steps. one of the biggest things we heard from the government since news of this story broke, they're worried for the safety and security of law enforcement, fbi agents and those carrying out this work. we heard that from government lawyers who told the judge they're worried about the safety of their agents and the witnesses who were cooperating with the government in this investigation in to former president trump. i also just reached out to what i would consider team trump, the people in new jersey, with them that are ba

judge bruce rinehart. i want to get to the meat of what was taken from mar-a-largo. we're told four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents, three sets of confidential documents, an executive grant issued to roger stone and an unspecified binders and photos. we're told a leather bound box of documents. also we're told, martha, in the 20 boxes, according to this search warrant that was reviewed, the locations to be searched include the 45 office, all storage rooms and all other areas within the premise used or available to be used by the former president and his staff in which documents could be stored. so this is what we're getting from the actual search warrant. as bret baier said in the last hour, we want so see what's in the affidavit. that's the next big ticket. that should have more substantial information there. i was at the news conference yesterday with attorney general merrick garland. that was significant in the fact that he spoke about an on going investigation. obviously circumstances here are different in this case. he felt the publi

don't forget judge rinehart is the same magistrate judge that recused himself from my hillary case aonth ago. is he definitely not going to be a friendly judge, necessarily, and there's -- i would say it was highly unlikely as we can see the doj is already saying that they do not want us to see what was in the affidavit, usually that's to protect witnesses and other things that have been cooperating with the justice system. so, while i would love to see it and understand why you would ask for a raid with a cooperating president, do i believe that this judge is going to reveal it? no, i do not. >> you mentioned that this magistrate removed himself from the case between trump and hillary clinton. so, isn't donald trump in this case in the release of the affidavit, isn't he entitled to an impartial magistrate which doesn't seem like judge rinehart is. >> right. absolutely. as is every citizen in this country. that's why we have the legal system. that's why we are supposed to have impartial judges qui ask have asked for a special master. they have indicated they wouldn't apt special mast

now, this search warrant signed by federal magistrate judge bruce rinehart in south florida, he was a private attorney and he donated both to barack obama and also jeb bush. this was before he took to the bench in 2018. now, while the trump team has the warrant and inventory sheet, it does not include the probable cause for actually going into mar-a-lago. but there would be some detailings. trump's team says they don't plan to release a copy of the warrant as of now. judge rinehart is giving the justice department until monday to decide if they will be okay with unsealing this for the public to see. there are so many questions that the public wants to see. now, bret, i want to show you. this is a copy of a search warrant right here. this is a blank one. but this gives you an idea of what if looks like. this is the inventory of the property taken and the name of any object seized. this is what would have been used monday at mar-a-lago. of course, it would have the information on it also, bret, in 201, there was a law to stiffen the penalty for anybody that mishandled classified informa

today judge bruce rinehart gave the justice department a week to figure out what needs to be redacted in this criminal affidavit involving former president donald trump, this is fascinating here. legal experts didn't think there was a chance we'd see any affidavit. there's a lot of public interest in this case, but he also understands the sensitive nature of the justice department arguing that if too much information is released, it can can compromise their investigation and impact witnesses already cooperating with the government. lawyers for the justice department admit that the country is in a volatile state here following the search at mar-a-largo. the government says their investigation into he dozens of classified or top secret documents ended up at trump's florida estate is in the early stages. the media was urging the judge to release as much information as possible citing transparency. we heard late today from a lawyer representing the media. here's what she had to say moments ago. >> that is the public interest. we're entitled to monitor the affairs of our government at all

bruce rinehart who worked for the u.s.ons commission he was an active political donor giving $1,000 to barack obama's 2008 campaign. another $1,000 to the obama foundation and in 2016 contributing $500 to jeb bush's 2016 presidential campaign. and, of course, as you mentioned, he also had represented privately several associates of the accused pedophile jeffrey epstein who also lived on the island. back to you. >> ainsley: all right. thank you so much, phil. all right, todd, over to you. >> todd: right around the corner can be the perfect time to take on a new land scang project. home contractor skip bedell take down the custom solutions. >> i'm here with everlawn. no matter where you live in the country high heat, sun problem with water. problems with your lawn solution to it synthetic turf. no organics in it. this is going to drain well. it's going to work well in any situation. best part is no watering, no seeding, no fertilizing no pesticides. really great for the environment. >> water conservation. plates in californi

federal judge bruce rinehart has just unsealed the warrant that was the basis for the unprecedented searchresident donald trump's south florida residence and private club, mar-a-lago, on monday. nbc news, among other news organizations, obtained a copy of the search warrant a whool ago along with the inventory of the items seized by the fbi from mar-a-lago granting the government search warrant, judge rinehart

reporter: the doj argued that that releasing the full affidavt full affidavit magistrate judge bruce rinehart says the government has met its burden of of showing good cause that overrides any public interest in in unsealing the full contents of the affidavit, but he adds he he must still consider whether there's a less onerous alternative to seeing the entire entire document. the judge warns warns reductions could be extensive. >> natalie has the doj responded responded to the new motion filed by trump's attorney. >> we have a statement from a spokesperson tonight who says the search was authorized by a federal court upon the required finding of probable cause. he goes on to say that the government will file its formal response in court. legal experts experts we've been talking to say they expect the doj to contest this motion, saying those documents are evidence, but ultimately it will be back before a judge, who will then decide what happens next. >> since the search, threats against fbi agents have surged, some members of congress calling calling on social media companies to address those

knowledge straight judge bruce rinehart down in west palm beach, florida, this is the same magistrate judge who just recused from president trump's lawsuit with hillary clinton six weeks ago. same judge in 2017 facebook post where he personally characterized president trump's character. if he thought he was too biased to decide trump's case against hillary clinton six weeks ago how did that judicial bias go away in six weeks? the fact that they went to this home raid is so unprecedented. so unnecessary and so unlawful. >> sean: taking documents that are covered by executive privilege but more importantly attorney-client privilege is outrageous. i want to get your take on this. why on earth would they take his passport? do they really think he is a flight risk and leave the country on trump force 1. >> is he going to escape from his secret service entourage and like get on don jr.'s plane and go somewhere? this is ridiculous. what we have seen with this raid it, is a pretext. it is a political charade. they are just trying to get trump here. >> sean: i think a lot of americans want to

no dice on the recusal but judge rinehart will reveal about the affidavit and trump's political lies are calling on judge to do that. >> when it comes to trump, there are no rules. every republican should be suspicion of what's happened in the past happening again so we need the affidavit. show your cards, merrick garland can't have it both ways and give us the inventory of the warrant without telling us why it was necessary. without the affidavit, we're flying behind in the dark and the american people are going through too much pain and heart ache on this endless efforts to destroy donald trump. kennedy: the reason they want it released because many on team trump do not trust the fbi. guess what, neither do a bunch of libertarians that don't care about trump at all. as usual this case gets more bizarre by the minute. remember peter struck. the disgraced fbi guy that sent text messages to his lawyer lover about trying to end trump's presidency. he now has the nards and eggplant emoji saying the fbi should be trusted, no questions asked. pete. >> the american public should trust the

magistrate judge bruce rinehart in south florida who approved the original warrant.charlie, as these headlines get to tape, we are watching the markets closely and don't appear to see any shackiness at the moment but -- shakiness at the moment but everybody needs to watch this at the bottom. charlie: first of all, fox news had the guts of this, you know, an hour ago so a lot of this stuff has been out there. listen, this thing needs to play out. it's hard to figure out if there's any -- i don't think it's a market implication. the former president, not the current president who may or may not be in trouble over it. we don't know. i just want to say one thing though, i've been reporting for days and it's causing quite a havoc. quoting people that work for donald trump, eric trump, his lawyers that they never really received a full copy of the warrant up front that they saw it and could take a picture but never got it. they're still telling me that. they're also telling me that at some point they did get it. let's just be real clear here, this is a justice department.

. >> i think this is why it is so important that we see the affidavit that judge rinehart releases theret, the worse than no affidavit would be an affidavit that is totally redacted leading to even more mysteries and puzzles and conspiracy theories. i think transparency is the in the public interest here. we need to know what the government was looking for and why it was in mar-a-lago. >> bret: respond to karl rove. is the political impact a negative right now for republicans heading into november. matthew. >> i think it's hard to say. i think at the end of the day, people won't be necessarily voting what's happening with trump and the fbi, they will be voting on how their standard of living has declined unthis president. and i would say, too. this has been a net benefit for the former president trump. he has rallied his base. he has driven the republican party into his arms, and he has raised a lot of money off of it it's not clear to me that it's such a winner for the democrats. >> bret: all right. panel, thank you. ♪ >> bret: all right. it is time for "tuesday tweets." cna bill asks

. >> by the way, we're also waiting on the florida magistrate judge, bruce rinehart. says he will decide by 5:00 p.m. whether to make public the affidavit attached to the search warrant. the affidavit will clearly lay out the case of the fbi, what they were thinking and what they were looking for. it's the meat of the story. it's unclear at this point whether the judge will do that. it would be unusual. they usually don't unless an indictment comes in down the line. that request has been put in by several media outlets. back to you. >> gillian: a lot of details in the affidavit there. thanks. let's bring in andy mccarthy, fox news contributor and former federal prosecutor. let's pick up where we left off with ashley. first off, does executive privilege cover the president of the united states or former presidents of the united states or both? >> gillian, it could cover both. there's supreme court precedent from the watergate era, the post watergate era that indicates that a former president has some unspecified quantum of executive privilege that is maintained with re

judge bruce rinehart oorder came hours came hours after the justice det submitted sensitive sections it wants blacked out. >> i think what the public is gg to learn is, again, just how much effort went into the affid. the fact there are pages and pas and pages of probable cause potentially, the types of docums above and beyond what we know were seized. >> reporter: the doj says the at contains information that couldr or compromise the ongoing investigation into former president trump's handling of classified documents. today's release could share at least some details about what led the fbi to search trump's estates on on august 8th and remove boxes containing a number of documents documents including some marked top secret. >> it seems unlikely that any je would have issued a warrant for a former president's home if it hadn't been a very strong case. >> reporter: according to legal, already made public, federal agents are investigating potentl violations of three federal laws. including one that governors gathering, transmittig or losing defense information under the espionage act.

. >> magistrate judge bruce rinehart says he will review any proposed redactions before deciding whether to make the affidavit public. on truth social trump called for the unredacted version to be released. at thursday's hearing hifers legal team chose not to file any motions or even speak up on the matter. instead, trump's lawyers tell fox they will wait to see what happened. >> i think that won't be very much transparency. i would expect that we'll get a lot of black ink all over that piece of paper. have to see what they kick back. >> government lawyers say releasing too much information could endanger witnesses cooperating with the fbi as it investigates several cases of documents labeled either classified or top secret ended up at trump's florida estate long after he left office. while trump is facing a wide range of legal problems iowa senator chuck grassley says it's the justice department that needs to be more forthcoming. the more the better, the better the public relations of the fbi would be because i think there is plenty of evidence of political bias. >> since the search at

magistrate bruce rinehart.the green light to the fbi to conduct the search at the mar-a-largo eight days ago now. at issue is the unsealing of the records related to that raid including all-important affidavit that lays out all of the arguments that persuaded the judge that there's probable cause to go with the search. the justice department filing a motion to keep the affidavit sealed arguing that it could leave witnesses vulnerable to threat. earlier today, donald trump responding saying that all documents should be released immediately saying in part on social media "in interest of transparency, i call for the immediate release of the completely up redacted affidavit." meantime, former acting u.s. attorney general matt whitaker says he believes the justice department must release all records to justify such an unprecedented action. take a listen. >> the first time a search warrant was executed on a former president's residence. that is an extraordinary move. obviously needs to be justified by extraordinary c

. >> reporter: federal manages stt judge bruce rinehart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions to the affidavit which led to the search of president trump's rese in mar-a-lago. >> the judge seemed to have a vy good sense that it is his job as as the gate keeper in this case to perform his function of balag the interest in the public of accessing the materials against the interest in the government n keeping them secret. >> reporter: on thursday, attors representing media organization, including cbs news, asked the judge to make parts of the affidavit behind the search warrant public. the justice department pressed for it to be sealed. arguing the release would undermine an investigation investigation that is still in its early stages. >> for the most part, we are nog to see the core of what we are all very interested in. none of which will be good news for forr president trump. >> reporter: the development cos a little more than week after the fbi seized classified and top secret information in in the in the search. a former cfo pleadeded guilty to not paying

federal judge bruce rinehart has just unsealed the warrant that was the basis for the unprecedented search of former president donald trump's south florida residence and private club, mar-a-lago, on monday. nbc news, among other news organizations, obtained a copy of the search warrant a whool ago along with the inventory of the items seized by the fbi from mar-a-lago granting the government search warrant, judge rinehart affirmed that the government had established probable cause of potential violation of three federal statutes. number one relates to the unlawful removal of government material. number two relates to the law prohibiting the destruction or concealment of documents to obstruct an investigation. number three, potentially the most explosive, the espionage act. the inventory of what the fbi seized includes around 20 boxes of items including four sets of top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents. the list does not provide any more details about the substance of those documents or what might be in them. in addition, there was b

. >> i think judge rinehart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants. >> even as his legal problems are mounting his hold on the republican party is tightening. >>> i'm phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off, and you are in the cnn newsroom. >>> we begin this hour in ukraine as it wrestles with a terrifying fear of a nuclear disaster. it is now almost six months to the day since russia launched its unprovoked invasion. new video from ukraine's ministry of defense right here says this is a successful strike destroying a rare russian radar complex in south eastern ukraine. ukraine is about to get more u.s. help in its fight against russia. the pentagon saying it'll now send another $775 million in aid. including ammunition for the high promobility artillery ro rockets, howwitzers and other ammunition plus dozens of drones and different vehicles. a lot of the fighting right now is centered in zaporizhzhia, right around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. ukraine says russia is launching attacks from there because ukraine wouldn't risk firing back and hi

. >> i think judge rinehart is going to protect the identity of confidential informants.

judge rinehart was painted in a corner when the attorney general came out after the search warrant wasorney general made the announcement that, you know, he's going to give a little bit of information but not too much. the judge is stuck with piecing this together and giving the government about a week to sort through this and find out what can be released. neil, what are the concerns? from the government's perspective, the concerns are sources and methods. we don't want anything to be leaked out now. we don't want anything with a chilling effect with cooperation down the road. this is not the conclusion. that's what the government is concerned about. this will be a heavily redacted report when it's released. >> neil: what if the justice department fears that the rationale for ransacking the president's home wasn't justified? they didn't find anything that would justify what originally gave them the affidavit to do this in the first place? >> so you're giving me a little bit of wiggle room here. so the 36,000 men and women of the fbi, i have no problem with their conduct. when the pres

magistrate judge bruce rinehart are designed to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation by

magistrate judge bruce rinehart are designed to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation by not disclosing highly sensitive information about witnesses and other grand jury material. but what is now public tells a damning story about the former twice impeached president who, by the way, is the one who originally called for the affidavit to be released. trying to play chicken with the doj before they called his bluff. now, first in the government's 13-page memo explaining the rationale for the redactions they said parts must remain sealed to, quote, protect the safety and privacy for a significant number of witnesses in addition to law enforcement. in other words, the fbi's probable cause was not based on a single informant but a number of different witnesses likely having to be people inside the trump's orbit and i'm sure that fact is not sitting well with donald tonight. and the affidavit explains why many of them might have cooperated. it describes in specific detail the nature of some of the documents that were just laying around trump's golf resort. in 15 boxes of docume

ultimately judge rinehart said in his order quote the government has not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. he wants the justice department to submit their redactions and their justification will make the final decision on what if anything, to release a spokesperson for former president trump saying no redactions should be necessary and the whole affidavit should be released. that's why you see trump and his lawyers wanting so much to see this because they don't believe there was sufficient justification. justice department lawyers will have the chance to appeal the judge's decision once he rules on what he wants to release in washington. lauren blanchard, ktvu fox two news. coming up. we hear from a double homicide suspect who tonight is in custody at the san francisco county jail. what he has to say after he says he killed his father and stepmother. i feel bad for the people that logged in. the anger and then it just took over my mind and my actions. and we are taking a look at that forecast. tomorrow is friday, the weekend just around the corner

federal magistrate drug bruce rinehart yesterday ordered it be unsealed after the justice departmenttted the redacted version for him to review. in the outline, the order had what was publicly redacted before public release and i find that the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, good cause, to seal portions of the of a zaft. because the disclosure would reveal the identities of witnesses, law enforcement agents, and uncharged parties, the investigation's strategy, direction, scope, sources, and methods, and grand jury information protected by federal rule of criminal procedure. the fbi removed 11 sets of classified documents including some that were labeled secret and top secret from trump's home on august 8th. joining us now to discuss this, the hardest working man in the business, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley. all right, what are we going to learn from the affidavit's release today? will we learn nothing at all? >> it's possible, but i think that, you know, there's a lot of agreement between the judge essentially and the government on what is actua

and by the way, rinehart wasth also a bigig obama donor with ta very latest is the editor in chief of just the news.com, john solomon. you have other breaking news john, what do you have? news >> yeah, let's start with myelogram. we'll go back to ourh judgeed here. i have confirmed that in late t may the federalhe government, the justice department delivered a grand jury subpoena to president trumpuryde. president trump. this is in connection with the rhetoric case. president trump didn'te contest the subpoena. herily voluntarily cooperated with allowed three agents and af senior doj official to come to his property on june 3rd and to pick up a set of documents they thought were what the government was looking for. the last remaining documentsocun left there, the president actually came down and surprised everybodyerer dred up in a suit, came down, greeted the fbi agent, said, i appreciate what you're doing. and he told them if there's anything you needan, let us know we will cooperate fully. when the president left the fbi agents, according to governmentp officials and private source

ashley: yeah, david, we are continuing to wait to find out when florida magistrate judge bruce rinehartsearch warrant. we're not expecting a whole lot of detail and we'll get an inventory of what was taken from mar-a-lago behind me on monday, but not in great detail. maybe just the fact that they took boxes. we won't get a look, that's for sure, at the affidavit, which actually, you know, lays out the government's case. the details we should point out that persuaded that judge to go ahead and rubber stamp the search that took place here on monday. there are reports that the fbi moved on such a large scale because they believe some of the classified documents were related to nuclear weapons. we have no hard proof that that is indeed the case, but donald trump put out a statement several hours ago making very strong reaction to that statement. he said "nuclear weapons issue is a hoax just like russia, russia, russia was a hoax. two impeachments were a hoax, and much more ". same sleazily people involved says trump. why wouldn't the fbi allow the lawyers and others present and made them wa

details on the crooked judge who signed off on the raid at trump's house it turns out judge bruce rinehartonald trump. in 2017 he wrote this, quote: john lewis, the conscience of america, donald trump doesn't have the moral stature to kiss john lewis' feet. and then he added, at long last, he left no sense of decency. so the judge who gave the go ahead to ransack the president's house as an obama donor with trump derangement syndrome. and he has so little integrity he just puts this all out there on facebook. so the fbi judge-shopped for this guy, who spends all day online shaming you for your white privilege. >> a lot of that stuff is gotten now, francey, this morning. this guy should have recused himself. doesn't he note law? >> yeah. you know, brian, it's a really bad look to have this kind of biased magistrate sign off on this search warrant. i don't know if the fbi went judge-shopping or not. in my district here in atlanta the magistrates were on duty and they were on duty in a rotating basis. and so they wouldn't have had a choice. i don't know what they did down there. anything is c

. >> now, in his order, magistrate judge, bruce rinehart, a proved the warrant, said the doj had, quoterden of showing that its proposed redactions are narrowly tailored to serve the government's legitimate interest in the integrity of the ongoing investigation. and are the least onerous alternative to sealing the entire affidavit. meantime, over testify white house, yep, they are sticking to their story that the president somehow miss tis tierously didnt know anything about the raid before it happened. >> it was not briefed. no one at the white house was briefed. we were not briefed on investigation. we did not know about that. we learned about that from your reporting. >> now, be careful when they say things specific like that. we weren't briefed. okay, does that mean anybody knew? i'm just asking questions. meantime, former president trump took to social media, truth social in particular, to do his best joe wilson impression. you lie. joe biden said he knew nothing about the break-in of mar-a-lago or the greatest political attack in the his industry of the u.s. does anybody really be

judge bruce rinehart giving the doj one week until thursday high noon to offer a redacted version ofs not met its burden of showing that the entire affidavit should remain sealed. now, it's a setback for the justice department and opposed the document's release claiming it would compromise criminal investigation into trump. doj counter intel chief jay bratt blasted the judge's order telling "the washington post" there is quote real concern not just for the safety of these witnesses but to chill other witnesses who may come forward and cooperate. bratt also insisting there would be nothing of substance if the affidavit is release. meanwhile trump continues to call for transparency. his spokesman saying, quote: no redaction should be necessary and the whole affidavit should be released given the democrats' pen chant for using redactions to hide government corruption just like they did with the russia hoax and even with redactions, trump's attorney has low expectations of what we might see. >> i would expect that we will get a lot of black ink all over that peels of paper if i was the d

magistrate bruce rinehart who you may recall actually recused himself from a civil course informing that president trump signed off on the warrant to then raid mar-a-lago. is he giving the fbi until noon to file a redacted version of the affidavit because, quote: the intense public and historical interest. in an unprecedented search of a former president's residence. i will say. as for the current occupant of 1600 pennsylvania avenue, he continues to insist, nope, he didn't get a heads up about the raid beforehand. >> mr. president, how much advanced notice did you have of the fbi's plan to search mar-a-lago? >> i didn't have any advanced notice, none, zero, not one single bit. thank you. >> meanwhile the doj memo declining to charge former president trump with obstruction of justice has also been made public. it reads in part, quote: we conclude that the evidence is not, in our judgment, sufficient to support a conclusion yard beyond areasonable doubt that te is california's devin nunes on. that was. >> mueller, and his team, should be under investigation, perhaps maybe some of these fb