If it's Friday, signed, unsealed, and delivered by court order.

The Justice Department has now released a redacted copy of the affidavit at the heart of the Mar-a-Lago search.

What we now know about the government's reasoning behind the warrant.

Plus, President Biden comes out swinging in his first rally of the midterm campaign season,

comparing elements of former President Trump's MAGA movement to quote,

semi-fascism, what he said and what he means.

And one year after the Abbey Gate attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 U.S. service members

and more than 150 Afghans, the general in command of those U.S. troops speaks out.

Our one-on-one interview, that's ahead.

Welcome to meet the press. Now, I'm Chuck Todd, and we begin with the breaking news of the day,

and that is from the Justice Department this afternoon, where we saw an unsealing of a redacted copy of the search warrant for the affidavit it gave to a judge to justify the August 8th search of former President Trump's Florida residents known as Marlaga. As expected, more than half of the 38-page document was redacted.

But the information that we are able to piece together reveals a fuller portrait of the government's

urgency and concern over Trump's mishandling of information potentially

vital to U.S. national security. First off, in the memo explaining the reason for all those

redactions, we now know that the government had what it described as, quote, a significant

number of witnesses, including multiple civilian witnesses, providing it with information

relevant to its search. So it looks like we're not talking about just one or two informants here,

and we're not talking about only informants that work for the federal government.

In the affidavit itself, part of the DOJ's justification behind its search

for improperly stored highly sensitive government secrets,

was that it already had found 184 classified documents in boxes from Marlago that Trump turned over in January.

And according to this affidavit, those 184 documents included, 67 marked confidential, 92 mark secret,

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