Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Released; Combatting Election Security Disinformation
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In Washington state, an election security device is the subject of conspiracy theories.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Rebecca from Central Alabama. I'm currently sitting in a trade building at the |
| 0:04.8 | Living History Center where I work, hand quilting a pedicote while I wait to receive a secret |
| 0:09.3 | message from a fifth grade school group that is here on a field trip. This podcast was recorded at |
| 0:14.6 | 2.22 pm on Friday, August 26th. Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but hopefully |
| 0:20.8 | I'll have a message to pass along to Paul Revere to begin his famous midnight ride. Enjoy the show! |
| 0:25.9 | I appreciate that she was able to deliver that so quietly but also so calmly while she's in the |
| 0:35.5 | middle of work. There are a lot of things elements there that I did not expect to be combined into one. |
| 0:41.3 | Secret messages, hand knitting, pedicotes. I just hope the message isn't redacted. |
| 0:45.8 | Ah, hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting, and I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:55.5 | The Justice Department has released a redacted version of the Affidavit justifying the search |
| 1:00.8 | of former President Donald Trump's Florida residents. The department took this step in response |
| 1:06.0 | to a court order. So Ryan, let's just get started right away. Let's go with the big takeaways. |
| 1:11.1 | What do we know now that we didn't know this morning? Look, this Affidavit gives us our best |
| 1:17.0 | view yet into the Justice Department's investigation and do how certain documents, White House records, |
| 1:23.3 | National Defense Information, classified documents, ended up leaving the White House in the last days |
| 1:29.4 | of the Trump presidency and ending up at Marlago. It tells us some of what we already know, |
| 1:34.5 | which is that the FBI's investigation began with the referral in February from the National Archives. |
| 1:40.1 | After the archives recovered 15 boxes of materials from Marlago in January. |
| 1:46.2 | In the Affidavit, we learned that there were news articles, printouts, notes, personal records |
| 1:50.4 | in those 15 boxes, but also intermingled with all of that was a lot of classified material. |
| 1:56.1 | Just all kind of tossed together. The FBI went through all of that, says they found 184 |
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