How a special master could change the Trump investigation
Post Reports
The Washington Post
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
The latest in the Justice Department’s investigation into Donald Trump. And the students who survived the mass shooting in Uvalde, Tex., return to school for the first time.
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On Monday, a federal district judge pumped the brakes on the Justice Department’s investigation into the material seized from former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. The judge granted Trump’s request to appoint a special master to review the documents. Rosalind Helderman, a political enterprise reporter for The Post, walks us through what this news means for the Justice Department and what we can expect next in this investigation.
After much delay and postponement, students at Robb Elementary School are finally returning to school in Uvalde, Tex., this week. In May, a gunman entered the school and killed 19 fourth-graders and two teachers. Questions over safety, security and adequate student support have divided this small community and broken trust with the school district and law enforcement. Today, Arelis Hernández brings us the story of families struggling with these difficult back-to-school decisions as they try to recover from the unimaginable.
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| 0:00.0 | It's been a month since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, the home of former president Donald Trump. |
| 0:08.8 | And we now know a lot more about what federal agents took. |
| 0:16.5 | They got more than 100 sensitive documents. |
| 0:19.6 | Some of them marked top secret. |
| 0:22.6 | The Justice Department has indicated that some of the documents were so sensitive that |
| 0:27.2 | the people that they assigned to review them and see what was in them had to get higher |
| 0:32.2 | clearances than the ones that they already had to have permission to even look at them. |
| 0:37.8 | That's investigative reporter Rosalind Helterman. |
| 0:40.4 | We also know that they took what they have said is about 11,000 pages or documents of |
| 0:46.1 | government material that was not necessarily marked classified but did appear to belong |
| 0:51.4 | to the government. |
| 0:53.3 | We should have been in the archives but instead were at Mar-a-Lago. |
| 0:56.8 | And all of those things, the classified documents, the non-classified documents were all sort |
| 1:01.0 | of intermingled in boxes and desk drawers and other areas with other things. |
| 1:06.8 | Books, gifts, mementos, even an item of clothing, Donald Trump's passports. |
| 1:13.0 | So they were not stored separately. |
| 1:15.5 | They were stored just intermingled with the personal property of Donald Trump. |
| 1:19.5 | Just kind of scattered about. |
| 1:20.8 | In a series of boxes we know, some of which were contained in a storage room in the basement |
| 1:26.3 | of Mar-a-Lago, but some of which were actually found in Donald Trump's personal office, |
| 1:30.8 | including we've been told that there were three documents located in Donald Trump's desk. |
| 1:40.0 | From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports. |
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