National Archives: Trump had 700+ pages of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

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🗓️ 24 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In a newly released letter, the National Archives told former President Trump’s legal team in May that it was sharing hundreds of pages of classified material with the intelligence community that had been retrieved back in January. They wanted an assessment to be done on potential damage about how the more than 100 documents, including more than 700 pages, had been handled. CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig joins AC360 to discuss how big of a deal this letter is and why it’s important. Plus, CNN projects former Republican Gov. Charlie Crist will win the Democratic nomination for Florida governor and will face off against incumbent Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis in November. CNN Political Director David Chalian tells Anderson Cooper he thinks Crist will have an “uphill battle” against Gov. DeSantis. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	It's a very busy night.
0:02.5	The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine is warning Americans to leave the country with fears growing
0:06.0	escalating Russian attacks in the wake of a car bombing outside Moscow that took the
0:10.5	life of a daughter of a prominent Putin supporter.
0:13.2	Here at home, convictions in the attempt to kidnapping a Michigan's governor and major
0:16.4	developments in the Mar-a-Lago document story.
0:18.7	First, though, we begin tonight with breaking news out of Florida where primary day is over
0:22.5	in the polls of just closed.
0:24.9	CNN can now project two key races for the Democratic nomination for governor.
0:31.4	CNN projects the winner of Congressman and former Republican governor, Charlie Cristh,
0:35.6	and in the race to oppose Senator Marco Rubio in the fall, CNN projects the Democratic
0:39.1	nominee as Congresswoman Val Demings.
0:41.8	More on the primaries there and in New York shortly, but first the documents.
0:45.0	We know a lot more tonight about the class five material.
0:47.5	The former president was keeping it Mar-a-Lago, including how much of it there was, more than
0:51.8	100 pages, how the former president tried to hang onto it for months and how very sensitive
0:57.1	some of the information in it was.
0:59.0	More sensitive than previously reported, bearing a designation limiting access to only a
1:03.4	select few officials.
1:05.2	The reason we know this information is because of a move by one of the former president's
1:09.2	allies and a liaison to the National Archive.
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