More charges brought against Trump in classified documents case

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

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Special counsel Jack Smith has brought additional charges against former President Trump in the classified documents case. Court documents show that Trump is being charged with an additional count of willful retention of national defense information and two additional obstruction counts related to alleged attempts to delete surveillance video footage at Mar-a-Lago Club last summer. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe joins AC360 to break down the new charges and what it means for the investigation. Plus, Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff managed the then-president’s first impeachment trial and was a member of the House select committee that investigated the January 6 attack against the U.S. Capitol. He tells Anderson Cooper how problematic he thinks this new indictment is for Trump.

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0:00.0	Good evening, breaking news. Just a short time ago, the Special Counsel's office announced
0:05.0	new charges against the former president in its classified documents investigation, a
0:09.6	month after inditing him on dozens of felony counts. In addition to more obstruction charges,
0:15.0	the Special Counsel is now charging the former president with the willful retention of
0:19.1	a national defense document. According to this indictment, it is the one he mentioned during
0:23.9	the tape discussion two years ago with biographers working for his former White House chief of
0:28.1	staff, Mark Meadows, none of whom, all the people in the room, again, according to the
0:32.4	indictment, none of them possessed a security clearance. Here's that recording.
0:36.4	These are bad sick people. That was your coup, you know, against you.
0:43.4	Well, it started right at the beginning. Like when Millie's talking about, oh, you were
0:46.6	going to try to do a coup. No, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn
0:50.4	in. That's right. Try to overthrow your life.
0:53.2	All with Millie, let me see that. I'll show you an example. He said that I wanted to
1:00.2	attack Iran. Isn't it amazing? I have a big pile of papers. This thing just came up.
1:07.4	Look, this was him. They presented me this off the record, but they presented me this.
1:15.0	This was him. This was the defense department in him. We looked at him. This was him.
1:21.0	This wasn't done by me. This was him. All sorts of stuff. Pages were on them. Let's see.
1:30.0	Yeah. Isn't that amazing? This totally wins my case, you know, except it is, like, highly
1:39.4	controversial secret. This is secret information. Look, look at this. You're a tack and
1:46.3	Hillary would print that out all the time. No, she sent it to Anthony Wiener. By the way,
1:56.8	it's not incredible. I was just saying, because we're talking about it. And he said, he
2:02.1	wanted to attack Iran. He said the past. This was done by the military, given to me. I think
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