Alex has the night off and what a night it is.

For the past two hours, we have been speed reading the newly unredacted affidavit that

the government used to get a search warrant for Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club last year.

Full disclosure, NBC was part of a group of media organizations that sued to get this

affidavit unredacted.

And now it is out.

It is not totally unredacted, but it is way, way less redacted than the original version,

so we have been comparing and contrasting the two as fast as we can.

Again, this thing just came out two hours ago, but the thing that jumped out at us immediately

was this.

The newly unredacted sections of the affidavit give us a much better understanding of what

the government could see on the surveillance footage it got from Mar-a-Lago.

There's fun details we didn't have before, like how the cameras were motion activated,

but really, it's what the cameras couldn't see that sticks out.

On July 6th of last year, the Trump Organization provided the FBI with a hard drive containing

the footage of four cameras.

All four of those cameras were in the basement hallway leading to the storage room where

Trump had been keeping these classified documents.

Now, that's a pivotal part of how the Justice Department knew documents were being moved

in and out of that storage room.

But those cameras did not capture what was happening upstairs at Mar-a-Lago, which

is what makes this interesting.

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