Mar-a-Lago flood draws attention of prosecutors in Trump documents case

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

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Sources exclusively tell CNN that an employee at former President Trump’s Florida resort drained the resort’s swimming pool last October which flooded a room that held computer servers containing surveillance video logs. At least one witness was asked about this incident by prosecutors as part of the federal investigation into the former President’s handling of classified documents. While it's unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to discuss the new development and why he thinks the Department of Justice is investigating possible obstruction by the former President.

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight at 360 exclusive new reporting on a flood at Mar-a-Lago in the room
0:06.4	where surveillance video logs were capped and today the former president's lawyer is
0:09.9	meet with the special counsel and indictment decision could come any day.
0:13.8	Also tonight Mike Pence enters the race.
0:15.6	We'll tell you who else just decided to stay out and who's likely getting in.
0:19.5	Next.
0:20.5	And an M-16 sonic boom was only the first sonic trouble.
0:23.9	New details about what fighter pilots did to get the attention of an unresponsive pilot
0:28.0	for his private jet crash in Virginia.
0:30.4	New information just in about when the trouble began.
0:33.5	We begin with exclusive new reporting on a previously unreported episode in the Mar-a-Lago
0:37.6	documents case.
0:39.0	It comes as attorneys for the former president met today with Justice Department officials
0:42.8	and signs increasingly indicate that special counsel Jack Smith's probe could be in its
0:47.3	final stages in his case on colleges here with more.
0:50.2	So walk through this exclusive reporting about Mar-a-Lago.
0:52.3	Okay, it's a bit of a bizarre story so bear with me.
0:55.8	But it was in last October we are told that this maintenance worker at Mar-a-Lago drained
1:01.2	the pool and when they drained the pool it caused a flood that flooded this room that the
1:06.6	we are told has the computer servers which store the surveillance footage on them.
1:11.6	That's important because we know prosecutors have been looking at the surveillance footage
1:15.3	from Mar-a-Lago.
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