The DOJ's legal brief explaining the proposed redactions for affidavit has been unsealed. Still waiting to see the redacted affidavit.

Here's one excerpt from the legal brief: More from the legal brief on threats to the FBI:

NEW: We dove into the text messages Mark Meadows exchanged on Jan. 6, which show how within minutes of the Capitol breach, Trump’s allies sent the same urgent plea: Trump needed to immediately denounce the violence and tell the mob to go home cnn.com/2022/06/02/pol… The 2,319 messages Meadows selectively turned over included more than 150 messages sent on January 6.

Our latest story is a minute-by-minute look at how those in Meadows’ orbit pushed him and Trump to respond as the violence of Jan. 6 unfolded, w/ @jamiegangel @elizabethstuart

NEW: Fox’s Sean Hannity exchanged 80+ messages with Mark Meadows btwn 2020 Election and Biden inauguration, messages that show Hannity's evolution from staunch supporter of Trump's election lies to being "fed up" with the "lunatics" hurting Trump's cause cnn.com/2022/04/29/pol… These newly disclosed texts are from the batch CNN reported this week. They offer a window into the Meadows-Hannity relationship as they debate post-election strategy, complain about Fox and discuss possibly working together, w/ @jamiegangel @brianstelter @elizabethstuart

NEW: CNN obtained an early copy of “Peril” from @realBobWoodward @costareports, which details how CJCS Gen. Milley took action in Jan. to limit Trump from launching nuclear weapons, telling officers not to take any action without consulting with him first cnn.com/2021/09/14/pol… Milley was worried Trump would ‘go rogue’ after the Jan. 6 insurrection. “No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure,” Milley told officers, per “Peril.” W/ @jamiegangel @elizabethstuart

NEW: There was a second suspected case of the mysterious illness known as "Havana Syndrome" that affected an NSC staffer near the White House late last year, w/ @KatieBoWillCNN @NatashaBertrand cnn.com/2021/05/17/pol… The first case, which we reported last month, occurred the day after the election when the staffer was passing thru a gate onto the property.

The second happened several weeks later near the WH, and the symptoms were serious enough to require immediate medical treatment

NEWS: For more than 3 years, federal prosecutors investigated whether money flowing through an Egyptian state-owned bank could have backed $10M Donald Trump donated to his own campaign days before he won the 2016 election. Story w/ @kpolantz @evanperez cnn.com/2020/10/14/pol… Our deep dive into the 3+year investigation: The probe both predated and outlasted Mueller, and has never been described before publicly. It represents one of the most prolonged efforts by federal investigators to understand the President's foreign financial ties.

What does RBG's death mean for the Supreme Court as it considers voting access cases -- and the potential prospect of a new justice and a contested presidential election case reaching the high court? @kpolantz and I talked to some smart people about it cnn.com/2020/09/22/pol… Justin Levitt @ Loyola said RBG's death is likely to impact future voting rights cases. "But I think it's extremely unlikely that the Court decides a case with a substantial impact on November 2020, in any way in which Justice Ginsburg's vote would be the tipping point," he said.

HSGAC now holding a business meeting to vote on subpoenas for depositions for the panel's GOP-led investigation into Crossfire Hurricane. Here's the full subpoena schedule (Johnson said yesterday Bridget Brink, who is in the last item, agreed to appear voluntarily) You can watch here hsgac.senate.gov/09/09/2020/bus…

'A magical force': New Trump-Kim letters provide window into their 'special friendship' -- a deeper look at one of the most interesting parts of Woodward's book: the 27 Trump-Kim letters, w/ @jamiegangel cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol… The letters show a "diplomatic courtship," Woodward writes, filled with "declarations of personal fealty that might be uttered by the Knights of the Round Table, or perhaps suitors."

Fallout from the Woodward book news has been swift as the WH, Trump campaign and congressional Republicans scramble to react to Trump's concealing he knew early on about how dangerous and deadly the coronavirus was cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol… "A little bit of alarm about the seriousness early on could have made a little bit of a difference," said Sen. Marco Rubio said. "Getting people to think earlier on about some of the protective things we ultimately had to put in would have been better looking back."

'Dangerous' and 'unfit': Trump's former national security advisers say he has 'no moral compass' in new Woodward book. More details on the brutal assessments from Mattis, Coats and others in Rage cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol… More from Mattis, quoted as saying he was "often trying to impose reason over impulse."

Mattis ultimately resigned when Trump announced he would pulled Trumps from Syria, and he's quoted as saying the decision "went beyond stupid to felony stupid."

NEW: CNN has obtained Bob Woodward’s new book Rage, in which Trump admits he knew weeks before first US coronavirus death it was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and repeatedly played it down publicly cnn.com/2020/09/09/pol… There’s a LOT in this book, which comes out Tuesday, 9/15. Woodward conducted 18 interviews with Trump, and CNN has obtained copies of some of the audio tapes, which you can listen to above. THREAD on the key highlights in Rage, w/ @jamiegangel @elizabethstuart:

The DeJoy House Oversight hearing is still ongoing, but here are some of the notable exchanges cnn.com/2020/08/24/pol… Rep. Jim Cooper questioned DeJoy's role as deputy national finance chairman for the RNC, asking whether he had rewarded employees at his former company, XPO Logistics, who contributed to Trump's campaign.

"That's an outrageous claim, sir, and I resent it," DeJoy responded.

Before the House Oversight hearing gets underway, Maloney goes up to the witness table to give DeJoy an elbow bump Maloney in her opening statement: "These steep declines did not start in April or May with the coronavirus crisis, but in July when Mr. DeJoy came on board and began making his changes. Our entire country is experiencing these delays as a result of Mr. DeJoy’s actions"

At Postal Service hearing, Johnson says in opening statement "As long as election officials factor in normal postal delivery capabilities, and in light of the 17% decline in weekly volume, the postal system has more than enough excess capacity to handle mail-in balloting." Peters in his opener: "Mr. DeJoy, your decisions have cost Americans their health, their time, their livelihoods and their peace of mind. You owe them an apology for the harm you have caused, and you owe all of us some very clear answers today"

Happening now: Congressional Progressive Caucus is speaking to David Williams, a USPS Board of Governors member who resigned earlier this year and raised concerns about the selection of DeJoy facebook.com/USProgressives… Williams in his statement: “I recently resigned as Vice Chairman of the Postal Board of Governors, when it became clear to me that the administration was politicizing the Postal Service with the Treasury Secretary as the lead figure for the White House in that effort."

NEW: Senate Intel has released Volume Five of its Russian election interference report HERE (totaling 966 pages) intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/… The report's findings say that Manafort " sought to secretly
share internal Campaign information with Kilimnik" and that the "committee obtained some information suggesting Kilimnik may have been connected to the GRU's hack and leak operation targeting the 2016 U.S. election"

NEW: As Trump attacks the mail and vote-by-mail, his administration gains more access to the Postal Service, w/ @jessicadean cnn.com/2020/08/06/pol… The Trump administration is making new inroads into USPS operations: A loan agreement negotiated w/ Mnuchin gives Treasury access to USPS 10 biggest contracts -- think Amazon -- while the new Postmaster General, Trump donor Louis DeJoy, is under pressure to reverse service cuts

And we're underway at House Judiciary. Watch here Nadler opening statement: "In this Justice Department, the President’s enemies will be punished and his friends will be protected, no matter the cost."

NEW: When Rudy Giuliani met with AG Barr last September on behalf of a Venezuelan client, he was joined by former Rep. Trey Gowdy, whose presence at the meeting has not been previously disclosed, according to new documents cnn.com/2020/07/16/pol… Gowdy’s involvement with Giuliani is notable because a month later, he was briefly named to Trump’s impeachment defense team, though he didn't ultimately join. The DOJ meeting was to discuss Venezuelan biz exec Alejandro Betancourt Lopez. That backstory: cnn.com/2020/01/17/pol…

NEW, w/ @kpolantz: Mueller’s chose to break his silence and defend his investigation after weeks of contemplating doing so, in part because the inflammatory White House statement attacking the prosecution of Roger Stone, per multiple sources cnn.com/2020/07/13/pol… Mueller has considered publicly defending his former office for months, per sources -- especially after DOJ reversed Flynn. Mueller decided not to speak after the Flynn decision, but WH attacks over Stone finally pushed him to speak