Analysis: Biden & Trump’s classified documents cases compared

Laura Coates Live

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🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 84 minutes

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The panel discusses the special counsel investigations into Biden and Trump's handling of classified documents: where both cases are, and the differences between them. Plus, the political controversies surrounding both Rep. George Santos, and gas stoves, make their way into legislation. And, there’s new details in the Ana Walshe disappearance, as a police report she filed in 2014 claims Brian Walshe threatened to kill her.A judge orders the unsealing of Donald Trump’s deposition in defamation case brought against him by former magazine columnist Jean E. Carroll, five Proud Boys members are on trial for seditious conspiracy, Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva is cleared by the Russian anti-doping agency, Dallas police investigate a leopard getting out of it’s zoo enclosure after they found an intentional cut in a fence, and the Friday the 13th Mega Millions jackpot hits $1.35 billion.Hosted by Laura Coates. 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	Well, good evening, everyone.
0:05.2	I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight, and there are new developments now in the
0:09.2	investigation into the classified documents from President Joe Biden's time as Vice President
0:14.8	Joe Biden.
0:15.8	We're learning more about his private office where 10 classified documents were found.
0:21.0	Now more on that in just a moment.
0:22.8	We've also got some news in and reporting on the classified documents found in that office,
0:27.1	including a memo from Biden to then President Barack Obama, two briefing memos preparing
0:33.5	Biden for separate phone calls and one with the British Prime Minister, the other with
0:38.1	the President of the European Council.
0:40.3	Now, look, it's unclear how much of this material actually remains sensitive and whether
0:45.9	that's really going to be the point in the end.
0:48.4	But tonight we're going to go dig deep into what we know about the special counsel's investigations
0:53.6	of President Biden and former President Trump.
0:57.2	What the special counsel in each case is looking at and the key differences between them.
1:02.0	And plus, the two stories everybody cannot stop talking about this week.
1:07.1	The GOP's George Santos problem and the Firestorm over gas stoves.
1:11.6	Yes, these are two big stories this week.
1:14.4	You see what I did there about the Firestorm?
1:17.6	It was a moment.
1:18.6	It's a Friday night, everyone.
1:19.6	President Santos got caught in what's like a very never ending series of whoppers about
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