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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Intelligence agencies prepare to unravel the impact of former President Donald Trump’s possession of classified documents. Tia Mitchell, Faiz Shakir and Matt Gorman join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to talk the Democrats’ midterm election outlook. NASA’s Artemis launch is delayed after an engine failure. The mayor of Jackson, Miss. urges residents to evacuate the city amid historic flooding. A team from the International Atomic Energy Agency heads to a nuclear power plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine after shelling in the area sparked fears of a radiation leak.

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0:00.0	If it's Monday, the Justice Department says it's completed a preliminary review of sensitive documents
0:07.2	seized at Mar-a-Lago as U.S. intelligence officials begin to assess the national security risks
0:13.1	from the former president's handling of top-secret material, the very latest ahead.
0:19.0	Plus, Republicans in the red, GOP leaders now tempering their midterm expectations
0:24.2	as Democrats try to capitalize on new momentum, helped in part by a much-needed boost in President
0:30.5	Biden's numbers. And later, technical problems force NASA to scrub its debut moon rocket launch, what the delay means for the uncrewed mission, and NASA's timeline to get astronauts back on the lunar surface.
1:12.5	Welcome to meet the Press Now. I'm Peter Alexander. And today for Chuck, we begin with the growing fallout from the FBI search of Mara Lago as the intelligence community prepares to assess the damage caused by former President Trump's possession of classified documents. and as Mr. Trump's legal team escalates its fight over what information federal authorities can access.
1:18.1	A federal judge is scheduled a Thursday hearing to consider Mr. Trump's request for a third party,
1:23.4	what they call a special master, to oversee the FBI's review of evidence.
1:28.4	But in a filing just this morning, the Justice Department stated that the records obtained
1:32.7	have already been reviewed by a privilege review team, which found just a limited set
1:38.4	might be protected by attorney-client privilege.
1:42.1	That filing also confirmed news that NBC reported over the weekend that the DOJ is working
1:47.4	with the Director of National Intelligence to conduct a review of materials recovered to determine
1:53.2	the potential risk it posed to America's national security.
1:57.5	The agency assured House lawmakers in a letter on Friday that its review would not
2:02.8	interfere with the DOJ's criminal investigation. And this all comes just days after a redacted copy of
2:09.8	the affidavit supporting the Mar-a-Lago search was unsealed by court order. It revealed the U.S.
2:15.8	found 184 documents with classification markings
2:19.9	when a batch of documents was turned over in January. Twenty-five of them were seen as
2:25.0	top secret. That investigation into the former president has dominated headlines for the last
2:30.4	month, but it's far from the only investigation now facing Mr. Trump.
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