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Government Secrets at Trial

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MS NOW, Andrew Weissmann, Mary McCord

Versant, Indictment, Trump Indictment, Manhattan D.a., District Attorney, President, Ms Now, Politics, Trump Indicted, Legal, Trump Charged, News, Charges, Msnbc, Mary Mccord, Trump Legal, Andrew Weissmann

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A quick trial date has been set in Donald Trump’s classified documents case, but will that date hold and how will the court keep government secrets safe? MSNBC legal analysts Andrew Weissmann and Mary McCord dig into that – and also welcome a special guest.

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0:00.0

Hello, and welcome to another episode of prosecuting Donald Trump.

0:12.0

Well, there's a lot to talk about because it a lot happened this past week.

0:17.0

Judge Eileen Cannon issued a scheduling order. Bruce Reinhardt, who's the assigned

0:23.0

magistrate judge, issued a protective order, so there's two orders that have come

0:28.0

out of the Florida case. And in addition, Donald Trump went on air to set out his

0:36.0

quote, defense, unquote, would look briefly about how that how that went in our

0:41.0

view and our professional opinion. And I think this is now the episode where

0:49.0

law school is in session. That's right. But it actually will be really interesting

0:53.0

and fun. So Mary, welcome. Hi, good morning, Andrew. We've been saying for

0:59.0

weeks now that eventually we are going to weeks, yes, that eventually we're

1:04.0

going to talk about the classified information procedures act or SEPA.

1:08.0

And today is the day. And we actually have a special guest to join us because

1:12.0

you know, you hear from Andrew and me as former prosecutors on every single

1:18.0

podcast, but we wanted to bring in a defense attorney who's actually represented

1:23.0

people being charged with espionage act defenses, who has litigated from the other

1:28.0

side, SEPA issues. And that is Mark Zade. And so he'll be joining us a little bit

1:34.0

into the episode today, really looking forward to that discussion.

1:37.0

I am too. And Mary, I know you've dealt with the SEPA statute, the classified

1:42.0

information procedure act. And I have to when I was in the government, actually

1:46.0

more when I was at the FBI, when I was a general counsel, then as a practitioner.

1:51.0

And for you, it's much more as a practitioner. Yes. But you know, I actually dealt

1:55.0

with SEPA as a defense lawyer. You're not supposed to say that.

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