here s what i have to say. yes. since donald trump made his way into the political scene i m always waiting for something. i was waiting for the night of the grab them by the you know what tape. waiting, wait, waiting to see if he had covid. now we re waiting for these documents, redacted. what are we going to learn? you re a former federal prosecutor. what are we going to learn from a bunch of black out spaces? for some they ll look at it as an ink blot test. in reality, you can learn a lot from what is excluded and not said. all of this cumulatively had a federal magistrate judge say, you can go and you can search and execute a search warrant that s a high bar. that s a high bar. they re probably overly inclusive. we don t have everything buck what we do know is a search was executed. they took boxes from that particular estate. we didn t hear a big argument in the court from trump s lawyers as to pleas no, stop. which was surprising in and of itself. hold on.
particular estate. we didn t hear a big argument in the court from trump s lawyers as to pleas no, stop. which was surprising in and of itself. hold on. see, no, hold on. what s it say? it says, bye laura coates. hold on. bye felicia. i ll see you. i got to get to business. we re going to get into trouble. hey, folks. always waiting for something. aren t you tired of waiting? won t be long now. this is worth waiting for. sometime in the next few hours it looks like we could learn more about the fbi s search of the former president s florida resort, but how much? that is really the big question here. by noon tom we ll get a look the we red we redakted mar-a-lago search warrant saf david. the judge saying the doj showed
released, i got to ask you about the investigation. reporting that biden s white house counsels after office at some point defer to the national archives for determination on how to handle trump s protective assertion of the privilege or what have you over these documents. who in the white house knew about the investigation? because the president has been adamant that he knew nothing, got no warning about it. so, those are two different things, so let me just say that for a second. look, when it comes to the investigation, the search that we saw recently that you all have reported on, we have been very clear on this. the president was not briefed. no one at the white house was briefed. we are not briefed on investigation. remember, what the president has said during the campaign, and he has said as president, he wanted to make sure that we restore
affidavit? i think there s going to be more meat on the bones than i probably would have predicted last week based on not just the fact there s been a lot of reporting and disclosures in the last week, but the fact that the judge so quickly agreed to the reductions that the department of justice imposed, would suggest the department was more narrowly tailored. but there is going to be some substance there. i ll let you finish that, but why do you think there s going to be more meat on the bones? just to be clear, most is going to be blacked out, but the department of justice in its argument conceded there are parts of this that would not negatively impact the investigation. that was a week ago, and in the past week we ve seen communications with the archives and other disclosures. we ve also seen the filing from president trump and his attorneys to stop the search and impose a special master. so i think the reality is there will be more substance in there than i think we would no
the answer in term of what justified the search here, which technically the law that in terms of the espionage act is a retention of national defense information, classified information. in theory, that would be enough. that s not what happened here, which even after the department of justice learned about the classified information, they communicated with the former president s attorneys. and they issued astein steen. this was a cooperative engagement. and i think it signals that if that s all that happened, if the department of justice in june when they went to mar-a-lago obtained the rest of the classified documents, i don t think we would be talking about a search warrant. i think it s possible we wouldn t be talking about criminal charges. something happened, and we don t know what that is, but something happened and it seems to be related to this obstruction charge that fundamentally changed the nature of this investigation. and until we know what that is, ultimately we don t k