meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Anderson Cooper 360

Mar-a-Lago maid, plumber and other workers could testify in Trump criminal case

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sources tell CNN that some staffers and contract workers at former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort could be called to testify against him and his two co-defendants in the upcoming trial scheduled to begin in May 2024. A maid, plumber, chauffeur and woodworker are among some of the potential witnesses. Special Counsel Jack Smith indicted Trump over his handling of classified documents that were brought to his Florida resort after he left the White House in 2021, as well as possible obstruction of the investigation and government efforts to retrieve the material. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper why this is a "dream scenario" for prosecutors. Plus, Republican Presidential Candidate Chris Christie joins AC360 to discuss the recent developments in the Trump documents investigation, the former President's absence from the debate stage, and the former governor’s upcoming trip to Israel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Good evening first it was the IT guy now members the Maralago household

0:05.4

staff might also end up testifying against the boss that's what multiple people

0:09.3

familiar with special counsel jacksmith's classified documents investigation are telling us and it's a CNN exclusive.

0:15.0

They say federal prosecutors may call his witnesses a plumber, a maid who cleaned the former

0:19.7

president's bedroom, a chauffeur, and a woodworker, people who might not get a lot of attention

0:24.7

on a Trump property, but who see and hear a lot on the job.

0:28.9

People who, CNN, has also learned, have already been talking in detail to investigators.

0:34.0

There now likely witnesses.

0:36.2

So our secret service agent sources tell us and others who were in the room when the

0:39.9

former president was captured on multiple recordings

0:42.7

apparently showing off a classified military document about bombing Iran. Yeah, I just found, isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know.

0:58.0

Except it is like highly confidential.

1:01.0

See as president, I couldn't beat less.

1:04.0

No, I can't, you know, but this is less.

1:06.0

Now we have a problem.

1:07.0

Isn't that interesting?

1:08.0

Yeah.

1:09.0

It's so cool.

1:10.0

I mean, look, we hear and I have, and you probably almost didn't believe me, but now you believe

1:15.3

me.

1:16.3

It's incredible, right?

1:18.3

And bring some, bring some Coates in, please.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.