Carrie Johnson:
Well, a number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are demanding briefings by the FBI and top Justice Department officials.
It is highly unusual for the Justice Department and the FBI to talk about an ongoing investigation that involves a grand jury in this way. In fact, there are and laws that prohibit these kinds of officials from disclosing grand jury information.
So I do not expect we will have a full disclosure of what the Justice Department wanted or what the FBI found in the near term. That said, at some point, some of these court materials will become public. And we will know a lot more then about why the Justice Department took this step, which appears to be unprecedented, and what they found, whether it is in fact a violation of the law.
Judy, it's not clear that former President Trump is the target here, if there is a specific target, or that anyone will be charged with criminal wrongdoing. It may be that the government just wanted these documents back.
But, at this point, it's hard to know for sure. There's not a lot of visibility.
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