Judge skeptical of Trump bid to remove from trial classified docs seized at Mar-a-Lago
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
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The federal judge in charge of former President Donald Trump's classified documents case appears set to allow prosecutors to use documents seized by the FBI from the former president's private club. Plus, Monica Lewinsky wants the judge impeached.
USA TODAY White House Correspondent Michael Collins discusses President Joe Biden's approach to Thursday's debate.
President Joe Biden pardons thousands of veterans convicted under a military law that banned gay sex.
The National Transportation Safety Board says that burning off chemicals after a train derailed in Ohio last year was unnecessary.
The NBA Draft begins!
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Wednesday, June 26th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.4 | Xers. Today the later Today, the latest surrounding former President Donald Trump's classified documents case, |
| 0:28.4 | plus a look at President Joe Biden's potential strategy in tomorrow's debate, and it's time for the NBA draft. |
| 0:37.1 | The Florida federal judge in charge of former President Donald Trump's classified documents |
| 0:41.3 | case appears set to allow prosecutors to use documents |
| 0:44.8 | seized by the FBI from the former president's private club. |
| 0:48.3 | Trump's legal team has argued that the FBI might have lost its court request for a search warrant if the Bureau had |
| 0:54.0 | disclosed that its officials debated asking Trump's lawyers for permission to |
| 0:58.4 | search as Maralago Club. But Judge Eileen Cannon indicated at a hearing yesterday that she did not see the significance of such debate. |
| 1:06.7 | Cannon was skeptical of Trump's argument despite having been criticized by experts for multiple previous Trump-friendly rulings that appeared to deviate from |
| 1:15.0 | legal norms. |
| 1:16.4 | That included temporarily blocking investigators from examining seized documents before |
| 1:21.0 | the charges were brought. The decision was reversed by a panel of three |
| 1:24.8 | Republican appointed appellate judges. Trump nominated Cannon in 2020. Meanwhile, Monica Lewinsky |
| 1:31.2 | says she hopes Judge Cannon is impeached because she's upset the case still has not moved forward to trial. |
| 1:37.5 | You can read more with a link in today's show notes. We're a day away from the first presidential debate of the year between President Joe Biden and |
| 1:48.8 | former President Donald Trump. |
| 1:50.8 | And I caught up with USA Today, White House correspondent Michael Collins for a look at how |
| 1:55.3 | Biden is preparing. |
| 1:57.3 | Michael, thanks for wrapping. |
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