About Those Documents at Mar-a-Lago

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🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Last week, the F.B.I. took the extraordinary step of searching Mar-a-Lago, former President Donald J. Trump’s private club and Florida home. Their goal? To find materials he was thought to have improperly removed from the White House, including classified documents. An inventory of the material taken from the search showed that agents seized 11 sets of documents with some type of confidential or secret marking on them. We explore some of the latest developments in the case.

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0:00.0	For the past few days, Trump allies and Republicans on Capitol Hill have been clamoring
0:05.3	for the Attorney General to explain this FBI search of a former president's home.
0:10.1	And so, Merrick Garland basically said, okay, fine.
0:15.5	You want answers?
0:16.5	I'll show you the warrant.
0:20.4	Just now, the Justice Department has filed a motion to conceal a search warrant.
0:25.2	The warrant revealing the Trump is being investigated for obstruction of justice and violating the
0:30.4	SB&AJ Act.
0:31.9	Sister Ray Trump's explanations have shifted.
0:34.4	His team now says he had a standing order to declassify documents, the moment they were
0:39.1	removed from the Oval Office.
0:41.0	As we can all relate to, everyone ends up having to bring home their work from time to
0:45.6	time.
0:46.6	American presidents are no different.
0:48.2	The Trump lawyer signed a statement in June saying all classified documents at Mar-a-Lago
0:53.5	had been turned over to federal investigators, but that apparently was not the case.
0:58.3	So, as the investigators are now scrubbing through security footage, they subpoena from Mar-a-Lago.
1:03.3	A tight circle of former Trump White House officials are among those interviewed by the FBI.
1:09.3	I think this investigation is just getting warmed up.
1:13.4	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barrow.
1:16.6	This is a daily.
1:18.4	Today, making sense of the latest developments in the case of Donald Trump and the highly
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