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u.s. capitol. >> so why did you decide to march to the capitol? >> well, basically, you know, the president got everybody riled up, told everybody head on down. so we were basically just following what he said. >> after the president's speech as you are marching to the capitol, how did you feel? >> i was -- you know, i'm angry. you know, after everything that was basically said in the speech, you know, a lot of the stuff he said he already put out in tweets. i've heard it and seen it before. so i was already worked up and so were most of the people there. >> thursday a federal judge ...

warrant of mar-a-lago will hear arguments over whether to release the affidavit behind it. it's arguably the most important part of that warrant. the doj is fighting its release, citing highly sensitive information tied to a national security investigation. the former president wants it unsealed. we'll explore the implications of today's decision by the judge. we're going to go ahead and start with today's hearing over the mar-a-lago search warrant affidavit. msnbc's cal perry is outside the courthouse, ken dilanian also with us, and also with us, phil rucker, and chuck rosenberg, ...

potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential witnesses to pressure. there's also the long standing practice at the justice department to not say anything about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this. that said, as the judge in the case recognized, there's public interest involved here. cnn's jessica schneider starts us off. do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this? >> we don't know for sure, anderson, but it's possible that the doj may have given a little more than they originally thought they could. the judge ...

than they originally thought they could. you know, the judge move really swiftly today. it was less than four hours after he received prosecutors for post redactions let he ruled that what they propose would, in fact, be sufficient, that it should be released to the public by noon tomorrow. and the reason it's interesting that this judge came to such a quick conclusion is that when doj argued in court last week, they said that any redactions could be so extensive that it would make the entire affidavit completely devoid of content, in their words. when they said that, the judge pushb...

To see that kind of information. so extremely close hold, extremely tightly held. and there was an allusion to this in one of the court filings if you remember. one of the filings said that even the investigators who recovered the material, some of them weren't -- even though they were counterintelligence agents, some of them weren't authorized to review some of the documents when they first found them. >> so some of the fbi agents who were on the scene in mar-a-lago, they didn't even have the kind of clearance that would allow them to look at these documents? >> correct. and not just the agen...