Key witness in Trump’s classified docs case retracts statement

The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle

MS NOW, Stephanie Ruhle

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Special Counsel Jack Smith revealed a key witness in the classified documents case has retracted his previous false testimony about efforts to delete security footage. The witness additionally gave prosecutors new information implicating Trump and two co-defendants. Plus, activist and Little Rock Nine member Minnijean Brown-Trickey along with NAACP Director of Education, Innovation, and Research Dr. Ivory Toldson, talk about 6 Arkansas schools’ decisions to offer AP African American Studies despite the state’s education department warning them not to. Joyce Vance, Luke Broadwater, Tia Mitchell, Frank Figliuzzi, Shermichael Singleton, and Basil Smikle join.

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0:00.0	Tonight, the first defendants in Georgia turned themselves in what we can expect when
0:06.5	the former president surrenders, plus a key witness in the classified documents case
0:11.0	now changing his testimony.
0:13.5	And the stage is set for tomorrow's Republican debate how the frontrunners looming absence
0:18.5	will play out then Arkansas-Warned Schools and not to offer AP African-American studies
0:25.0	courses.
0:26.0	But schools are pushing back.
0:27.9	A member of the Little Rock 9 is here to respond as the 11th hour gets underway on this
0:32.9	Tuesday night.
0:38.2	Greetings.
0:39.2	I'm Simone Sanders, Townsend in for Stephanie Rule.
0:41.8	As the former president fights multiple legal battles, there is a big development in Jacksonets
0:46.4	classified documents case.
0:48.4	Trump and AIDS, Walt Nada, and Carlos Deliviera are facing multiple charges in that case, including
0:54.7	obstruction.
0:55.7	Today, the special counsel revealed a key witness who is a Trump employee has retracted
1:01.2	his earlier false testimony about efforts to delete security footage.
1:05.8	And he's given prosecutors new information, implicating Trump and his co-dependence.
1:11.0	This comes from a new court filing, which also says the witness no longer has a lawyer
1:15.6	paid for by Trump's Save America Pack.
1:20.4	This is how you get cooperating witnesses.
1:23.1	Here with independent counsel, you have somebody who has flipped and is clearly an insider
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