National Archives letter sheds new light
The Lead with Jake Tapper
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🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Team Trump just curiously confirmed that hundreds of pages of secret documents had been |
| 0:08.9 | held at Mar-a-Laga. |
| 0:11.3 | Leads starts right now. |
| 0:13.4 | A letter from May of this year just released revealing that for months the National Archives |
| 0:17.7 | made it clear to Team Trump urgently that they worried about classified material being |
| 0:23.1 | stored in properly at Mar-a-Laga. |
| 0:24.8 | Why was it there? |
| 0:26.3 | Who had access to it and what does the letter say, the release of it, about the Trump |
| 0:31.5 | folks, that they thought releasing it, spelling out these concerns, helped their case. |
| 0:36.4 | Also, urgent warning the U.S. urging Americans to leave Ukraine immediately the warnings |
| 0:41.0 | of a possible Russian attack as Ukraine prepares to mark its day of independence, plus explosive |
| 0:47.3 | whistleblower claims. |
| 0:48.3 | And a CNN exclusive, the man who was head of Twitter security says, your data on the |
| 0:52.2 | site is not safe. |
| 0:53.2 | And that security problems at Twitter are so grave, they are even a risk to national |
| 0:57.8 | security. |
| 1:03.1 | Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapp, where we start today with our politics lead and damning |
| 1:06.8 | new details in the battle over the classified documents that Trump and his team improperly |
| 1:11.6 | took to Mar-a-Laga. |
| 1:13.0 | We are now learning that officials from the National Archives directly told Donald Trump's |
| 1:18.8 | legal team in May that they were so concerned about what the Trump team had taken with them |
| 1:24.2 | and how those documents were being stored at Mar-a-Laga, the top U.S. intelligence agencies |
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