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Morning Announcements

Monday, August 15th, 2022

Morning Announcements

Betches

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Today's headlines: The most recent updates in the Mar-a-Lago Trump search have been revealed. Meanwhile, the FBI and DHS have warned that threats towards federal law enforcement have skyrocketed since the Mar-a-Lago search, as armed Trump supporters have staged a protest outside the FBI office in Phoenix. Finally, a man has fatally shot himself following a car crash into a barricade near the Capitol Building, and Trump’s former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chaom (Mitch McConnell’s wife) has reportedly met with the January 6th Committee. Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: NY Times: Read the Search Warrant for Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Home NY Times: Trump Lawyer Told Justice Dept. That Classified Material Had Been Returned NBC News: FBI and DHS warn threats to federal law enforcement have spiked since Mar-a-Lago search Business insider: Armed Trump supporters protest outside FBI office in Phoenix following Mar-a-Lago raid: reports CNN: Man fatally shoots self after crashing car into barricade near US Capitol Building Twitter: Kyle Griffin Status - NBC News confirms: Ex-Trump Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao — who resigned the day after the Capitol riot — met this month with the Jan. 6 Committee.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Today is Monday, August 15th, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements presented

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by Betches Media.

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It's been almost a week since the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, and it is still the centerpiece

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of the news cycle.

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Let's go back to Friday afternoon when a Florida judge unsealed the full search warrant

0:32.6

and lists a property that was taken.

0:35.0

From that, we learned that the search was conducted due to three potential crimes that

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the DOJ is investigating, including violations of the Espionage Act, obstruction of justice,

0:44.2

and criminal handling of government records.

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The fact that a warrant was obtained indicates that the DOJ has probable cause to investigate

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those specific offenses, but there have been no charges made yet.

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We also learned what the FBI took home with them to check out, and that included more

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than 30 boxes, binders of photos, handwritten notes, a leather-bound box, and sets of classified

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government materials.

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These included at least one set of extremely top-secret documents, four sets of regular

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top-secret documents, three sets of secret documents, and three sets of confidential documents.

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And while we don't know the exact contents of these and probably never will considering

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the stream secrecy level, some of the content reportedly included a document about pardoning

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