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Anderson Cooper 360

DOJ took 11 sets of classified documents from Mar-a-Lago

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

A judge unsealed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant which revealed the Justice Department took eleven sets of classified documents from former President Trump’s Florida home. The warrant also identified three possible federal crimes as reasons for the search. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells Anderson Cooper if he thinks there was a national security risk having these documents stored at Trump’s home. Plus, former Vice President Al Gore joins AC360 to discuss the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act and what that means for the climate crisis.Airdate: August 12, 2022Guests: Andrew McCabe, Al Gore. 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.

0:02.1

Tonight at this hour, there is still much we do not know about the documents found in

0:06.0

Mar-a-Lago and why they were there in the first place.

0:08.9

But there is much we do know.

0:10.8

We know the federal government has probably caused, believe the 45th President of the United

0:14.7

States may have violated three federal statutes, including the Espionage Act.

0:19.2

We also know that when the FBI searches Florida Mansion on Monday, they found and removed

0:24.0

four sets of top secret documents, including one marked top secret SCI for sensitive

0:29.4

compartmental information, which are some of the nation's closest kept secrets.

0:33.8

And that information, which comes from the search warrant in Inventory Unsealed today by

0:37.7

a Florida federal court, whatever you make of it, doesn't even begin to capture the distance

0:42.1

that we have all traveled this week.

0:44.3

It began with a first, the first ex-president hit with a search warrant.

0:48.2

It ends for now with this.

0:50.1

In between, we saw him and his supporters launch a campaign of intimidation against the FBI.

0:56.0

We saw it amplified into calls for violence online and on right-wing media.

1:00.3

We then saw someone armed with a rifle in a nail gun wearing body armor, tried to storm

1:05.0

the FBI field office in Cincinnati.

1:07.3

A man law enforcement sources say had ties to January 6th and a far-right extremist group.

1:13.2

An account bearing his name on the former president's social media site contained a post

1:17.2

on Monday reading in part that, quote, patriots are heading to Palm Beach.

1:21.8

It continued saying that if what he termed the feds try to break it up, and these are

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