elect joe biden right before the 2020 election. the fbi basically came to us, some focus on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert. there s we thought there was a lot of russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have been on notice that, basically, there s about to be some kind of dump of similar to that, so just be vigilant. and it turned out after the fact when the fact checkers looked into it, no one was able to say it was palls. maria: facebook founder marker berg admitting the censorship directive came from the fbi as whistleblowers tell senator ron johnson a similar story about the directive on hunter biden s laptop. coming up, senator ron johnson is here on what the whistleblowers told him and what he s doing about it. then, president biden claims it s fair for all taxpayers to be on the hook for other people s college debt. i believe my plan is responsible and fair. it focuses the benefit on middle class and working fa
elect joe biden right before the 2020 election. the fbi basically came to us, some focus on our team, and was like, hey, just so you know, like, you should be on high alert. there s we thought there was a lot of russian propaganda in the 2016 election, we have been on notice that, basically, there s about to be some kind of dump of similar to that, so just be vigilant. and it turned out after the fact when the fact checkers looked into it, no one was able to say it was palls. maria: facebook founder marker berg admitting the censorship directive came from the fbi as whistleblowers tell senator ron johnson a similar story about the directive on hunter biden s laptop. coming up, senator ron johnson is here on what the whistleblowers told him and what he s doing about it. then, president biden claims it s fair for all taxpayers to be on the hook for other people s college debt. i believe my plan is responsible and fair. it focuses the benefit on middle class and working fa
to the government s case as well as reveal the identity and compromise the safety of some witnesses. let s go to mark meredith. he s outside the courthouse in west palm beach. hi, mark. good afternoon. quite an afternoon here as you mentioned. we just got done with this hearing in which the judge said that he would possibly leave some portions of this affidavit redacted. however, he s going to give the gift a week here to figure out what needs to remain private and what could be allowed to be released to the media citing the intense public interest in this case. today s hearing was about various news outlets that have been pushing the judge for more transparency. two lawyers said this is an investigation in the early stages in to the former president and they re worried in too much information is released here that it s the witnesses that are already cooperating with the government that could be put at risk and this of course continues to be an ongoing national security inv
so what happens now? we have you covered with mark meredith on what exactly went down in that florida courthouse and to former president s response. law professor jonathan turley on whether key details could still leak out no matter what the judge ordered in the courthouse. and lee carter, polster, on the political fallout way beyond the courthouse. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. so much, so fast. let s get to it. mark meredith in west palm with the very latest. mark? good afternoon. 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
understatement, redacted, we are learning some new details about the fbi justification for the search of the former president s home. sandra: one part reading after initial review of the nra referral, the fbi opened a criminal investigation to, among other things, determine how the documents with one classification marking and records were removed from the white house or any other authorized locations for the storage of classified materials, and came to be stored at the premises. john: david spunt is live at the justice department, 38 pages in total released in regard to this, including some attachments. so far we are getting an idea what the documents were or at least the category in which they fell. but we are not getting a lot in terms of the why they thought it was so urgent to go in there and unprecedented fashion and the fbi conduct a raid of mar-a-lago. david: john and sandra, that is the detail we have wanted to know since we first learned agents were going in