Judge denies Trump motion to dismiss charges in docs case

The Beat with Ari Melber

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🗓️ 14 March 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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MSNBC's Katie Phang hosts "The Beat" on Thursday, March 14, and reports on Donald Trump's continuing legal battles, the RNC's plan to curtail voting rights, a GOP memo on abortion, and backlash from comments made by the CEO of Exxon during the warmest winter on record. Kristy Greenberg, Emily Bazelon, Jon Sale, David Jolly, Aisha Mills, and Bill McKibben join to discuss. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat. I am Katie Fang in for Ari Melber. Tonight there could be a delay in
0:06.2	Donald Trump's hush money trial in New York. More on that in a moment, but we start with breaking news.
0:18.0	Judge Aileen Cannon denying without prejudice Trump's motion to dismiss counts 1-32 in his classified documents case.
0:23.2	Her ruling coming in just moments ago,
0:25.6	she said Trump's arguments were better suited
0:28.0	to be argued later on in connection
0:30.0	with jury instructions or with other motions. In other words, she punted the decision. It comes
0:35.8	after Trump and Jack Smith faced off in a federal courtroom in Florida today.
0:40.5	Trump's attorneys arguing to dismiss the entire superseding indictment against him, claiming that the Presidential
0:47.2	Records Act gives Trump the authority to take and claim those classified documents
0:52.4	as his own personal property.
0:54.0	In their motion, Trump's lawyers wrote,
0:57.0	President Trump exercised virtually unreviewable authority
1:01.0	to designate the records as personal.
1:04.1	In court, Trump lawyer Todd Blanche
1:06.2	arguing, quote, presidents since George Washington
1:09.5	have taken materials out of the White House
1:11.8	at their own discretion.
1:13.8	The DOJ quickly shooting back.
1:16.1	The documents charged in the indictment are not personal records.
1:20.4	Period.
1:21.1	They are nowhere close to that.
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