Good evening at any moment tonight, the Justice Department could release a redacted version

of the affidavit making the government's case for searching Mar-a-Lago.

Now they have until noon tomorrow to do it.

The former president, as you know, had pushed for the unredacted version to come out.

His spokesman recently just applying it based on, and these are his words, the Democrats

penchant for using redactions to hide government corruption just like they did with the Russia

hoax.

Now, the Department of Justice does not want to make public anything that could jeopardize

this or any potential future case, plus put investigators in jeopardy or expose potential

witnesses to pressure.

There's also the longstanding practice at the Justice Department of not saying anything

at all about pending cases, especially ones as politically sensitive as this.

About said, as the judge in the case recognized, there was certainly a public interest involved

here.

Senators Shnider starts us off.

Do we know why exactly the judge decided to release this?

You know, we don't know for sure Anderson, but it's really possible here that the DOJ

may have given a little bit more than they originally thought they could.

You know, the judge moved really swiftly today.

It was less than four hours after he received prosecutors proposed redactions that he ruled

that what they proposed would in fact be sufficient, that it should be released to the public

by noon tomorrow.

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