AG Garland: DOJ filed motion to unseal Trump Mar-a-Lago warrant and property receipt

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🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Attorney General Merrick Garland revealed that the Justice Department filed a court request to unseal the Mar-a-Lago search warrant and property receipt. This was the first public statement since federal agents searched former President Trump’s home. Garland said he “personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter.” Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tells Anderson Cooper whether he agrees with Garland’s decision to speak publicly. Plus, January 6 House Select Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren joins AC360 to discuss if anyone from the Trump administration is cooperating with their investigation.Airdate: August 11, 2022Guests: Alberto Gonzalez, Rep. Zoe Lofgren. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.4	After days of increasingly violent rhetoric against the FBI on right-wing social media
0:05.6	and elsewhere in the wake of the FBI's search for the former president's Florida mansion
0:09.6	and attempts to discredit the Bureau by Republican lawmakers and certain cable channels.
0:14.7	And now, peers, we've seen the first deadly consequences.
0:17.6	An armed man killed in a shootout after trying to breach the FBI since Nadi Office.
0:22.6	Someone whose name is on a social media account spelling out, in vivid detail, the war he
0:26.8	apparently believed he was launching.
0:29.2	And as Brin Gingrass is doing the reporting on the deeply troubling story joins us now
0:33.3	with the latest.
0:34.3	Brin, what happened first of all, and what are you learning about the suspect?
0:38.0	Yes, so Anderson, we've learned from multiple sources that the suspect's name is Ricky
0:41.5	Schiffer, 42 years old.
0:43.2	Investigators are still trying to figure out if he has what kind of a connection he may
0:46.6	have with right-wing extremist groups.
0:49.5	But what happened earlier today was that the Cincinnati Field Office of the FBI, Schiffer
0:53.9	walked in there according to our sources.
0:56.9	Armed with an AR-15-style rifle and a nail gun, and tried to breach that office.
1:02.4	An alarm was sounded.
1:03.8	He was pursued by enforcement, not just law enforcement, not just on the federal side,
1:07.8	but the local and state as well.
1:09.7	And there was a standoff for several hours in rural area of Ohio, which ended when law
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