department s proposed redactions. reinhart said the feds met the burden of showing why parts of the affidavit should not be disclosed to the public. house republican greg steubey says he is not expecting any real answers today or ever. listen. that s going to be the most redacted affidavit in american history. the more they redact the less the american people will understand why the f.b.i. felt they needed to raid the former president s home. we aren t going to get real answers to a lot of this until the republicans take the majority back and we have the ability of oversight and bring in the d.o.j. and ask them the tough questions. let s go to david spunt with late breaking details. we re waiting looking at the docket here and we know we are going to see the affidavit but may not be the affidavit everybody wants to see with all the juicy details. that affidavits typically have. this affidavit would have those details. we won t see that version. we ll seal the one with r
would get. the former president called this release today a total public relations subterfuge. the doj says that premature disclosure of more of this information could have a negative impact on their continuing investigation. here s president biden asked about this investigation, which he s been careful to keep at an arm s length publicly moments ago. the president said he declassified these documents. did he declassify them? i ve declassified everything in the world. i can do it all. come on. i m not going to comment. i ll let the justice department take it up. that a short time from the president. bret baier is standing by. first to david spunt, our reporter covering this live at the justice department. good afternoon. good to see you again, david. what is the latest? interesting document. 38 pages. here s page 30 and 31, which you can see. you can consume some information. then there s page 15 and 16. so it just depends on which page you look at. there is some new
documents with classification marks. we are also learning additional details about the criminal justice implications possibly for the former president. he is calling federal prosecutors hacks and thugs tonight who had no write to storm his property and steal everything in sight in his words. correspondent david spunt is at the justice department tonight to begin our coverage. good evening, david. good evening to you in this redacted affidavit we are seeing a picture of federal prosecutors who had an escalating concern about documents stored at the home of former president donald trump. in justifying its search, the sworn affidavit notes there was also probable cause to believe that evidence of obstruction will be found at the premises referring to mar-a-lago. trump s team in january turned over 15 boxes of materials stored there. 15 of them containing 184 classified documents. 67 marked confidential. 25 marked labeled 25 top secret. the affidavit says some of the material a
Wednesday, december 20. Michael thomas is talking about weather ahead and erin como is talking about the roads and mike, not as nice and still not bad. Not as nice and not the worst day in the world. Could be worst for late de. Lots of clouds. Temperatures not moving far from where they are now and currently 52. Hey, erin. Ill take the degree rights now. We have a crash Harmony Church in hamilton. We get you around that one. Ill tell you maureen, holly, you ladies are popping in those colors. Pop, pop, thanks, erin. Ow top story this morning the republicans push to reform the the National Tax Code is almost complete app now it has one more hurd toll clear before getting president tr trump. Melanie alnwick live on capitol hill with the the latest this morning. The the vote was late, mel. Thats right theyll be back at it early again this morning. House republicans were celebrating yesterday because they tug their hurdle. Turns out they were a few chains technical changes that had to be m
Well have to wait until christmas. Theres still that chance. Well start with your storm impact scale which is still a 1, light, for rain that will become showers this morning, less than a tenth of an inch. You can see the steadier rain moving through the south bay right now with a little bit of light rain still lingering back to the san mateo bridge. You can see a clearing taking place across the north bay but then the showers and the breezy conditions are just to your north and those are going to move in over the next couple of hours. A look at the light rain on 101 and 880 in san jose. Your accuweather 12hour planner, isolated at 7 00. Milder. It will be quite mild at noon, 50s. But those breezes will kick in and make it feel cooler than the mid50s like at 4 00, and then well see stars at 7 00. 45 to 48 degrees. Well take a look at your activity planner coming up next, here is sue. Last we check there was a stalled ac transit bus blocking the two left commuter lanes there and that ha