Judge paves way for release of more Trump search info; Trump Org. CFO pleads guilty
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 18 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the beat. We're tracking breaking news. |
| 0:04.4 | The nation's about to learn even more about that unprecedented search of Trump's home |
| 0:09.1 | because a judge has ruled that parts of the DOJ prosecutor's roadmap for that must now be unsealed and released soon. |
| 0:17.0 | It's the affidavit that the Garland DOJ wanted to keep secret after releasing the search warrant itself. |
| 0:22.5 | DOJ arguing the entire roadmap was too sensitive to be released, citing witness protection and the ongoing investigation. |
| 0:28.4 | So here's the news. The DOJ lost that argument today. The judge finding that those prosecutors failed to meet the burden to prove the entire affidavit should remain |
| 0:39.8 | sealed, ordering the Garland DOJ to now file their secret proposed redactions within a week. |
| 0:45.8 | So that's a loss for them on process and a win for getting more information about this |
| 0:50.4 | operation. As a general citizen, if you are interested in learning even more about |
| 0:55.0 | what's going on there, well, that's a win. Most news outlets wanted the outcome for that reason. |
| 0:59.9 | Some had filed in court for it. Trump also said he wanted that outcome. But that's been a shift for him. |
| 1:05.2 | He went from hiding the original warrant, which he had the whole time, then saying he wanted it |
| 1:09.9 | released, then the judge releasing |
| 1:12.9 | some new materials as well today, like more of the warrant application, which cites the illegally |
| 1:17.7 | possessed information, contraband at Mar-Lago. Now, the entire Intel probe here is still in early |
| 1:24.4 | stages as they review the new evidence they got from searching Mar-a-Lago. |
| 1:29.1 | So, bottom line, we are going to learn more about this operation, which means learning more |
| 1:35.2 | about evidence that was at Trump's home that the government views is stolen and illegal. |
| 1:40.2 | Then there is Donald Trump's effort to publicize and spin all of this out of court. |
| 1:45.7 | You know, Trump often attacks reporters. I think everybody knows that. |
| 1:49.4 | But he also likes a good scoop. |
| 1:52.1 | It was Donald Trump who broke the news of that initial search in his angry statement. |
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