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The Lead with Jake Tapper

New info from unsealed Mar-a-Lago search warrant

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

A federal court in Florida unsealed the warrant that investigators used to search the home of former President Trump. The warrant cites three laws: obstruction, removing of government records, and the Espionage Act. The warrant listed the classification of documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago on Monday including four sets of top secret documents. 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

This is CNN Breaking News.

0:05.5

Welcome to the lead on Dana Bash in for Jake Tapper.

0:08.1

We continue with the breaking news of federal court and Florida unsealed the warrant that

0:13.3

investigators use to search the home of former President Trump.

0:17.3

The warrant cites three laws, obstruction, removing of government records and the Espionage

0:23.0

Act.

0:24.0

The warrant listed the classification of documents that were seized from Mar-a-Lago on

0:28.0

Monday, including four sets of top secret documents, three sets of secret documents,

0:33.8

three sets of confidential documents, and various documents were marked as top secret

0:39.0

sensitive compartmentalized information.

0:41.8

This would be material so sensitive that the U.S. goes to excruciating efforts to protect

0:46.9

it.

0:47.9

Only people with top secret clearance can read these documents and they have to do it

0:51.6

in what's known as a skiff or sensitive compartmental information facility.

0:56.3

Now these skiffs require a special lock and have reinforced walls and electronic methods

1:01.9

to prevent spying.

1:03.3

I'm going to go right to CNN's Caitlin Poland, so Caitlin, you have the warrant.

1:07.2

What else are we learning from it?

1:08.7

Right.

1:09.7

Well, Dana, there is more information in here than we could have expected yesterday.

1:14.3

There is three pages that really lay out exactly what was seized from the property of the

1:20.6

former President Mar-a-Lago, that beach club that is also his home and is not a secured

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