CNN Illustration/Getty Images(CNN) - The Justice Department will produce 500 pages of memos documenting what witnesses told special counsel Robert Mueller's office and the FBI during their investigation next month.
The documents, known as 302s, memorialize interviews conducted by the office and form the backbone of much of the Mueller report.
CNN and BuzzFeed News had sued for the documents under the Freedom of Information Act, and on Tuesday, a federal judge in Washington, DC, ordered the Justice Department to produce their first tranche of documents by November 1.
Trump came into office as a "disruptor" and should have expected the volume of requests for internal documents that he's been receiving, Walton said.
Walton said he hoped to issue a ruling on another transparency request aimed at Mueller's office -- for the release of an underacted version of the report -- by next month, when another status hearing in the cases is scheduled.