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it. more that from jessica schneider. >> reporter: a federal judge in florida says he wants at least some portions of the affidavit justifying the mar-a-lago search made public saying i'm not prepared to find that the affidavit should be fully sealed. before deciding, magistrate judge reinhart is giving the justice department one week to propose redactions. the doj has forcefully opposed releasing it saying it could derail their ongoing criminal says. >> much of our work is by necessity conducted out of the public eye. we do that to protect the constitutional rights of all americans ...

congress that her agency is conducting a damage assessment from the classified documents found at former president donald trump's home. >> reporter: top intelligence official avril haynes sent a letter to two chairs of committees in the house of representatives where she confirmed for the very first time that a damage assessment will be done of the documents that were recovered from mar-a-lago. let me read for you from this letter. she told the lawmakers, quote, that the department of justice and the office of the director of national intelligence are working together to facilitate a...

at risk. hello everyone welcome to "fox news live" i have eric shawn hi arthel. arthel: hello eric hello everyone i am arthel neville. says the intelligence committee will deliver an assessment of risk to national security if this top-secret documents were exposed. the fbi affidavit claims the records were not being stored in a secure location at mar-a-lago. they had probable cause to search the estate. former president trump and his legal team have refiled to have a special master review those records after judge said they improperly filled out the paperwork the first time around. e...

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...