Judge orders release of Mar-a-Lago affidavit
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Breaking news, a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit will be released tomorrow. |
| 0:08.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:11.0 | Moments ago, a judge set a deadline to release a redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit. |
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| 0:56.6 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapp. We're going to start with breaking news in our politics, |
| 0:59.8 | lead just moments ago. A judge ordered the release of the Mar-a-Lago affidavit, but with the |
| 1:05.0 | redactions proposed by the Justice Department. The affidavit is the document that outlines why |
| 1:11.0 | prosecutors thought they needed to take the unprecedented step of searching the home of a former |
| 1:15.4 | president. And why they believed there was probable cause that crimes had been committed. |
| 1:21.1 | Let's get straight to CNN Justice, correspondent Jessica Schneider-Jeska. What did U.S. |
| 1:25.1 | magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart say in his decision? |
| 1:29.1 | Well, Jake, the judge here acting with remarkable speed, less than four hours after the DOJ submitted |
| 1:35.3 | their proposed redactions. The judge has gone through their document and said that those redactions |
| 1:40.6 | are sufficient and they should be revealed to the public. So the judge putting it exactly |
| 1:45.6 | this way, he says, I find that the government has met its burden of showing a compelling reason, |
| 1:50.6 | good cause, to seal portions of the affidavit because disclosure would reveal one, |
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