Court halts special master’s review in major blow to Trump

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

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A federal appeals court has halted the special master’s review of documents that were seized at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate back in August. The ruling is a win for the Justice Department and their investigation into the mishandling of government records while Trump was in the White House. CNN Legal Analyst Carrie Cordero tells Anderson Cooper how helpful this decision is for the DOJ’s probe. Plus, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and his Republican challenger Herschel Walker are making their final pitches to Georgia voters before next week’s runoff election. Former President Obama held a rally with Warnock and told his supporters “we still got work to do.” Van Jones is a former special adviser to Obama. He joins AC360 to discuss the runoff election and how much Obama helps the Warnock campaign. 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 tonight, two big legal setbacks for the former president.
0:04.8	A federal judge ordering his White House counsel, Pat Sepolone, and his deputy to give additional
0:09.2	testimony to the criminal grand jury investigating the 2020 election.
0:13.5	Also a federal appeals court flat out rejecting the need for a special master to review documents
0:18.7	seized from Mar-a-Lago.
0:20.2	The 11th Circuit appeal panel stating plainly, former president should not receive special
0:25.0	treatment.
0:26.0	And according from the opinion, in considering these arguments, we are faced with a choice.
0:30.4	Apply our usual test, drastically expand the availability of equitable jurisdiction for
0:34.9	every subject of a search warrant or carve out an unprecedented exception in our law for
0:40.4	former presidents.
0:41.8	We choose the first option.
0:43.5	In other words, former president or not, the normal rules apply.
0:47.2	It's seen in certain Murray joins us now with more than this and the Sepolone case.
0:50.7	So sir, what does this mean?
0:52.4	The court ruling on the Mar-a-Lago documents, what does it mean for the DOJ?
0:55.6	And their investigation?
0:56.6	Well, I mean, obviously it's a big win for the Department of Justice who had been arguing
1:00.0	that there shouldn't have been a special master in this case all along.
1:03.6	Practically, it could mean that they will get this whole mess of documents sooner than
1:07.4	they would have otherwise.
1:08.4	Remember, they already have access to the roughly 100 documents that were marked classified.
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