A judge has said he is willing to release at least some of the affidavit into the FBI's controversial search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. The sworn statement sets out the evidence for why there was probable cause to search the former president's Florida resort. But the judge has first ordered the justice department to put forward proposed redactions to the affidavit.

The FBI has recovered documents marked top secret during a raid of former President Donald Trump's Florida residence Mar-a-Lago.

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That's the department. Wanted it to stay secret but now a judge says he's inclined to release parts of the FBI's affidavit justifying. The search of the former president's home today, the same judge who authorized this order the doj to decide what it wants redacted from the highly sensitive. Document is giving the justice department. One-week, the affidavit spells out exactly what the FBI agents were looking for at Mar-A-Lago and why they needed to take such drastic and unprecedented action. Federal prosecutors say the release of the documents would jeopardize their ongoing investigation but news, organizations, including NBC News are asking the judge to unseal it today in court. A lawyer for the media argued, the search was one of the most significant law enforcement events in the nation's history and that there's tremendous public interest in the release of the FBI, affidavit Federal prosecutors pushed back, they warned the judge that the documents released would compromise future steps in the investigation and put Witnesses in danger. At the o.j. Lawyer told the judge, Volatile situation with respect to this particular search across the political Spectrum, but certainly on one side in particular, there's a real concern not just for the safety of these Witnesses, but the chill other Witnesses, who may come forward and cooperate. Ultimately, the judge ruled that it was very important for the public to have as much information as possible about the historic search NBC's, Mark at Pluto was in the courtroom today in West Palm Beach. Florida. A short distance away from our Lago. He's now in Miami Mark give us a better sense of the argument that were made today. Will you pretty well summed it up? What was really remarkable to me? Is that if you didn't know, this was a former president, you would have thought you were sitting in court, listening to the government, talk about a mob boss. When you hear these discussions of obstruction of justice tampering with Witnesses or concerns about it. A worries that law enforcement are going to be docked and that they're going to be put at risk. It's accurately said by both sides in the courtroom. That this is an unprecedented unique situation and this is a real moment history. So the doj now has one week to provide these redactions what happens after that. The judge can decide judge Reinhardt will decide whether he think they did a good job. This is the same judge that approved the search warrant after reading affidavit. So he knows what's in there. He's also a former Federal, prosecutor himself understands the importance of law enforcement techniques in the lake, as a result, he's going to take the time read over it and decide, okay? This should be in or this shouldn't be in. This should be out. This shouldn't be out if he thinks the doj did a good job. He'll release it. If he thinks that they should do more he'll say that or if he thinks he's should do it on his own. He said he'll do that as well. So NBC is now reporting that there are discussions in Trump World about potentially releasing that surveillance footage of the FBI search to what purpose would that serve Donald Trump to put that video out there for everyone to see? I don't know. The reality is a lot of people say, a lot of things in Trump World until it actually gets done. I'm a little skeptical about exactly who says, what in Trump rolls back himself. Recently changed his mind from one moment to another the degree to which these things can help. The former president, not quite sure that after all the former president said he wants the affidavit completely released, but the reality is that there's a lot of stuff in their grand jury testimony, according to the prosecutor's, that probably aren't going to reflect well, on the former president. In fact, one of the things, one of the reasons the search warrant got approved is that the judge essentially ruled, as probable, cause. The former president or people in his orbit, had obstructed Justice and broken or violated other laws related to records management maintenance. So it's really serious stuff as for what the surveillance tape. Do or what the affidavit really says. Well, that's the difficulty of covering all of this and Trump World in general. You never quite know until it's actually in black and white. On a piece of paper.

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