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Laura Coates Live

Leaked letter from Trump’s legal team details classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

A leaked letter from the National Archives to Trump’s legal team outlines how he took more than 700 pages of classified documents, including top-secret materials, to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House in January 2021. The panel discusses how Trump sought to delay the FBI and the Intelligence Community in obtaining those documents by claiming executive privilege, why Trump’s legal team would leak this letter, and if it further implicates the former president in a potential crime.The polls close in New York where the chairs of two powerful House Committees, Rep Jerrold Nadler and Rep Carolyn Maloney are dueling for one Congressional seat, with CNN projecting a Nadler win. Plus, California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoes a bill that would create safe drug injection sites in San Francisco, L.A., and Oakland over “Unintended consequences”, and two men are found guilty of conspiracy to abduct Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Laura Coates and this is CNN Tonight, and here we go.

0:05.2

Another election night in America as we are inching our way much closer now to the midterm

0:10.3

elections, which will, of course, decide which party either retains or reclaims the

0:15.8

majority in the House and the Senate.

0:18.0

Now, polls just closed moments ago in New York, which is one of three states holding the

0:22.1

final primaries of this month.

0:24.7

And frankly, all eyes are on the race that is picked to, of the most powerful Democrats

0:29.1

in this country against one another.

0:30.7

Now, how powerful?

0:31.9

Well, one does chair the House Judiciary Committee and the other, the House Oversight Committee.

0:37.9

Both have been in Congress for three decades.

0:40.9

And tonight, one of them, or maybe even possibly both of them, could actually lose their seat.

0:47.8

So why are they even against each other for the very first time?

0:51.3

I'll tell you one word, redistricting.

0:54.5

But it's not just the map, they're up against.

0:56.6

And to this mix, you can add the long shot lawyer, Siraj Patel, and speaking of political

1:02.2

shots that are taken, let's say this campaign has turned up quite a bit.

1:07.0

I mean, politics, especially in Washington, DC and beyond, has a funny way of turning friends

1:12.7

and colleagues into rivals.

1:14.2

And that is what's happening here.

1:16.4

Maloney has allegedly been saying to people that privately that Nadler is, quote, half dead

1:22.0

her words allegedly, and is publicly thrashing him.

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