Exclusive: “Trump Employee 5,” who unknowingly helped move classified documents, speaks out

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 12 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Former Mar-a-Lago employee Brian Butler is the central witness in the investigation into former President Trump’s handling of classified documents after he unknowingly helped moved the material. Butler is referenced as “Trump Employee 5” in the indictment brought by special counsel Jack Smith. He exclusively told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that he thinks voters should hear the truth about his former boss and the case before the November election. Plus, the Princess of Wales said she was sorry for “any confusion” after her "experiment" with photo editing. A picture of Kate and her three children was recalled by several international news agencies over concerns it had been manipulated. CNN Royal Correspondent Max Foster joins AC360 to discuss the controversy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.5	in Trump's classified documents case going public for the first time,
0:36.5	talking exclusively with CNN's Caitlin Collins
0:39.1	about what he says was his role in moving documents
0:41.7	the federal government was trying to find.
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0:46.9	mis- misleadingly turned one woman's 20-year-old sex trafficking horror story
0:51.6	into the centerpiece of her indictment of President
0:53.8	Biden's border policies today. And later what is wrong with this picture of
0:58.2	Princess Kate and her kids? She now says she edited it herself, but that story is only raising more questions the Royal
1:04.8	Palace had hoped to quell.
1:06.8	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
1:08.2	We begin tonight with Breaking News that's a CNN exclusive.
1:11.3	With the man known as Trump employee five in the federal
1:13.8	classified documents indictment thinks of the case against his former boss. His name
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