Donald Trump v. Johnny Law

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Multiple courtrooms had former President Donald Trump on their agendas today. In Florida, a judge decided the public will get to see new documents related to the FBI's unprecedented search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago property. In New York, Trump's long-time CFO Allen Weisselberg pled guilty and agreed to testify against his former boss' organization. Also today: Walmart, Walgreen's, and CVS were all ordered to pay up in a multimillion-dollar opioid settlement. 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	Donald Trump facing off against Johnny Law in multiple courtrooms today.
0:07.2	The lead starts right now.
0:09.4	In Florida, documents are out.
0:12.2	A judge decides the public will get to see new documents related to the FBI's unprecedented
0:17.2	search of the former president's Mar-a-Lago property.
0:21.0	In New York, Trump's longtime CFO, Alan Weiselberg, placed guilty to his role in a long-running
0:26.4	tax scheme.
0:27.4	How much might Weiselberg reveal next about the Trump family business as he tries to avoid
0:32.8	even more jail time at the notorious Rikers Island?
0:36.5	And also today, Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS all ordered to pay up in a multi-million-dollar
0:42.6	opioid settlement.
0:44.0	Where will all that money go?
0:46.0	As prosecutors claim that the big pharmacy chains help fuel a silent epidemic that left
0:51.8	so many Americans hooked and hundreds of thousands dead.
0:58.4	Welcome to the lead, I'm Jake Tapper.
1:01.0	We're going to start today with our politics lead major developments when it comes to learning
1:04.4	more details behind the Mar-a-Lago raid.
1:07.9	This afternoon, U.S. magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart ruled that he will unseal additional
1:13.0	documents surrounding the search, and he left the door open to releasing parts of the
1:17.5	actual affidavit, which lays out in detail why the Justice Department felt the need to
1:23.9	take the unprecedented step of searching the home of a former president.
1:28.4	The DOJ is against revealing that affidavit.
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