DOJ urges Supreme Court to stay out of documents fight

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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The Justice Department is urging the Supreme Court to reject former President Trump’s request that it intervene in his legal battle and allow the special master to review the classified documents seized at Mar-a-Lago. The DOJ called the records “extraordinarily sensitive” and warned if they were reviewed it could “jeopardize national security.” Former federal judge Nancy Gertner tells Anderson Cooper whether she thinks the DOJ will win this fight. Plus, Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Tom Cotton hit the campaign trail for Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker. Walker’s campaign has been rocked by allegations the former football star, who supports a national abortion ban without exception, asked an ex-girlfriend to have the procedure twice and paid for it on the occasion she did. Washington Post reporter Annie Linskey joins AC360 to discuss new details surrounding the alleged abortion. 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, time for the Justice Department's message to the Supreme Court.
0:04.0	Stay out of Mar-a-Lago documents case.
0:06.3	Ever since the FBI got a warrant and conducted a court-approved search, finding boxes
0:10.5	of documents including highly classified ones that did not belong to him, the former president
0:15.0	has been trying to slow or stop the wheels of justice from turning.
0:19.0	Which is his right, even if it means taking it all the way to the Supreme Court, which
0:22.0	he has.
0:24.0	Today, was the deadline for the Department of Justice to make its case to the Supreme
0:27.9	Court will have details on their filing in a moment.
0:30.8	But first, the former president has now also been making new false statements about other
0:34.6	former presidents keeping classified documents.
0:36.8	He'd previously claimed former President Obama kept millions of documents for himself.
0:40.6	Now it's Obama and Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.
0:45.8	George H.W. Bush took millions and millions of documents to a form of bowling alley pieced
0:53.1	together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant.
0:57.7	They put them together.
0:59.9	And it had a broken front door and broken windows.
1:02.3	Other than that, it was quite secure and there was no security.
1:06.2	Now keep it up on us.
1:07.2	The documents were taken to what was once a bowling alley in Chinese restaurant, but
1:10.7	is now a heavily secured government facility.
1:14.4	Today the archives put out a statement reading in part, quote, reports that indicate or imply
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