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Turned over the material to the fbi. officials emphasized doj had to reach out to the sitting president for this request for the national archives because it deals with executive privilege. now, the department of justice, bret, important deadline we are following, has until thursday at noon to file under seal any proposed redactions to that affidavit, that probable cause to see what potential crimes may have been committed here. so we are looking to see if a judge decides to release that affidavit, hopefully we will know something by thursday. bret. >> bret: okay, david spunt at the justice de...

Longest serving member of the court. and he is really bided his time, and now he is seeing the seats of his conservative project in full power. yesterday was his birthday, and he gave himself the greatest gift of all, which was an opinion, basically, allowing the court to expand the scope of the second amendment, to permit public carrying of firearms. today, he got the opportunity to not only join the majority in overruling roe versus wade, but also to write separately, to say that in addition to overruling roe, the court should, in the future, reconsider the rights to same-sex marriage and co...

The supreme court. justice clarence thomas, appears to be calling out the chief justice. what is this about? >> reporter: well, chief justice john roberts has always pushed for collegiality. he has looked at the other branches and seen them erupt. he always pushed it. then you have this leak that comes across. it is just stunning for the supreme court. it's a stunning breach. and justice clarence thomas gave an appearance last week talking about the leak. but he also seemed to take a jab at the chief, suggesting before the chief was on the court, because thomas is the longest serving member, t...

>> so, tell us about how that kind of goes down. in december, roberts has this meeting with conservatives. and then how logistically does this trickle down to having this majority draft opinion? >>. >> well, when the court hears a case, it meets in private, takes tentative votes on the outcome of the case. if the chief justice is in the majority, then he assigns who's going to write the opinion or decides to write it himself. but if he is not, then the chief -- the most senior justice in the majority decides who's going to write the case. and so it appears the chief would like to have written ...

Flags at the white house currently flying at half-staff in memory of republican congressman from alaska, don young, who died friday. president biden remembered young as larger than life in a statement today. at 88 years old, young was the longest current serving member. winning his first back in 1973 and the only representative from alaska. young, who was dean of the house, served on the house natural resources committee. his office remembered him as a fierce defender of alaska who died with his wife as his side and our condolences go to the entire young family. that's the news from washington...