MTP NOW Aug. 31 — DOJ’s Trump filing; Mississippi water crisis; Rep. Ro Khanna

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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The Department of Justice says Trump may have hidden, moved classified documents. Stephanie Schriock, Doug Heye and Eugene Scott join the Meet the Press NOW roundtable to talk about the political atmosphere for both parties almost two months from the midterms. Mississippi residents resort to spending hundreds on bottled water amid running water shortage. Rep. Ro Khanna says working class voters have lost hope with Democrats and the American Dream.

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0:00.0	If it's Wednesday, the Justice Department alleges that Trump's team likely hid and remove government
0:08.0	records, all to obstruct its investigation into highly classified documents at Mar-Alauga.
0:14.7	We'll have the latest legal fallout for the former president and his team.
0:19.2	Plus, a primetime address, President Biden hits the road to speak again about what he calls
0:24.6	the soul of the nation as he ramps up his criticisms of the former president and as MAGA
0:30.6	followers ahead of November.
0:32.6	And later, international nuclear inspectors have finally made it to Ukraine to help avoid a potential
0:38.4	catastrophe at Europe's largest nuclear plant as the area faces a fresh wave of attacks.
1:11.0	Well, good afternoon and welcome to meet the press. Now. I'm Chuck Todd. In the last 24 hours, Donald Trump's legal troubles have gone from bad to worse, as the Justice Department outlined what it found at Mar-a-Lago, as well as efforts by the former president and his lawyers, to prevent federal agents from getting those documents.
1:16.8	And a filing just before midnight last night, the Justice Department stated that it seized more than 100 classified documents from Marlago earlier this month, August 8th, and that some of those
1:22.1	documents were so sensitive and classified that the FBI agents and justice attorneys that were there, they actually
1:29.9	had to go get additional security clearances simply to review them and then remove them.
1:35.7	The filing also stated that Mr. Trump and his team likely concealed and removed documents
1:39.9	before the FBI search. And in an effort to bolster its claims, the Justice Department also included
1:44.5	this photo of what appears to be various classified documents, it says, were recovered from a container
1:49.9	in Donald Trump's office. This photo, I think, has been seen by every American with a phone at this point.
1:58.2	The filing was in response to Trump's criticisms of the FBI search and a
2:01.6	request for a special master to oversee everything obtained from Marlago. A move the Justice
2:06.8	Department says is now unnecessary because, well, their teams have already completed their review
2:11.0	of those documents. Trump's legal team took a long time to make that request. But Trump's team
2:16.6	still does have until the end of today
2:18.0	to respond to the latest filing, and a judge has scheduled a hearing for tomorrow to discuss
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