the fbi search at trump s mar-a-lago home still the biggest story in the country. a big development over an hour ago regarding the search al mar-a-lago. the judge who approved the search warrant will hear argument as 1:00 p.m. thursday about whether to unseal the search warrant affidavit. the doj has asked a judge to keep it sealed while the former president wants it released. while we re focused on the former president s legal troubles, he s not the only one in the trump orbit facing legal entanglements. rudy giuliani is now a target in georgia s 2020 election probe and is scheduled to go before a special grand jury tomorrow. another longtime trump ally, allan weisselberg is expected to plead guilty to criminal charges in a tax case tied to the manhattan das office. we just learned former white house lawyer eric hirsh man who testified before the house january 6th committee has been subpoenaed in the doj s insurrection probe. trump acknowledged the temperature needs to be to
these might have been in a box or in some sort of container that the fbi had hauled along. they re now going through it, processing all the information, processing the evidence and the stuff that they don t need they re returning, and apparently these passports are among them. so digging into this and the passports, at this juncture in such a public high-stakes investigation, is there something we re missing about these passports? it s not like donald trump can just try to get out of the country. that s what you use a passport for most of the time. is this just being overblown by him? i think there is. i ll tell you why. if you look at attachment b to the search warrant, the property to be seized, the fbi was clear with the judge in the warrant that the trump counsel saw, that they intended to take not only physical documents and classification markings, but any containers or boxes collectively stored or found together with the aforementioned documents and
welcome an. ken, we ll start with you relative to the latest in this mar-a-lago search. the doj wants to keep the search warrant affidavit sealed, citing a need to protect witnesses, also an ongoing investigation. a hearing is set for thursday at 1:00 p.m. what happens then? the judge will decide whether to unseal that affidavit and the justice department, if he does grant that request by news organizations, the justice department would ask for redactions of sensitive information, and they say there will be a lot. we actually learned a good deal from this justice department filing yesterday, alex, about the scope of this investigation, the fact that there is an ongoing grand jury investigation involving multiple witnesses and sensitive information they still want to protect. the idea that this is just the action to recover classified documents seems dispelled by this affidavit. we re turning to reporting on how these top secret sci documents ended up in the
that giuliani is a, quote, target of the investigation. let s go to blayne alexander joining me from atlanta with more on this. blayne, welcome. what more do we know about this investigation and what can we expect to see tomorrow? reporter: alex, we do know this has been a busy 24 hours for this investigation. not only did we learn that rudy giuliani has moved from witness to target in the das investigation, but we also learned in the same 24-hour period that senator lindsey graham, his motion to quash the subpoena was denied by a federal judge. he s now been ordered to appear next week. let s focus on giuliani. what we re expecting to see tomorrow is he is going to be testifying before the special grand jury in a downtown atlanta courthouse. aside from that, we re not going to see too much or hear too much. we do know a lot of this is centering around his statements to georgia lawmakers in december of 2020. it s important to remind us why the d.a. wants to hear from us in the first
president s home. questions are being asked about who helped donald trump pack these documents. he couldn t have packed them all by himself. take a listen to what former national security advisor john bolton had to say about this in an interview i did with him yesterday. i think it would be interesting to ask white house counsel s office if they were present to review documents or if the records management people and the national security counsel staff were present. my guess would be no. somebody was present, alex. somebody packed those boxes. probably not donald trump. the doj is going to have to get to the bottom of who did that, what procedures were followed and why. that is absolutely fascinating. glenn, what do you think the doj s movement signals about the direction of this investigation and how realistic is it that we will see the affidavit at some point? i agree with ken. if we see the affidavit, it will be so heavily redacted, alex,