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Opening Arguments

OA 733: Trump Phones A Friend As Document Indictment Looms (feat. Kel McClanahan)

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🗓️ 28 April 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Liz and Andrew take a look at a letter sent by Donald Trump's lawyers to House Republicans and bring back expert National Security Lawyer Kel McClanahan to help answer all their questions about Trump's dubious assertions about how the National Archives should have handled the Mar-a-Lago documents.

Notes
In re Sealed Case (Pence-Boasberg)
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67164305/in-re-sealed-case/?order_by=desc

Parlatore Trump letter
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23789802/read-trump-lawyers-letter-to-congress-reveal-foreign-leader-briefings-may-be-among-classified-documents-taken-from-white-house.pdf

Less-redacted search warrant
https://openargs.com/wp-content/uploads/Reinhart-Mar-a-Lago-less-redacted-affidavit.pdf

NARA Oct. 11, 2022 statement
https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2022/nr22-001#october-11-2022

Debra Steidel Wall 1/17/23 letter to Jim Comer
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23575130/nara-response-to-rep-james-comer.pdf

18 USC §793(e)
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/793

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0:00.0

I'll have you know the contents of that dumpster are private.

0:07.6

You stick your nose in, you'll be violating attorney dumpster confidentiality.

0:11.6

I just want to say hello.

0:13.8

Oh, hello.

0:16.8

All right, we're done.

0:20.9

You think the language in the Second Amendment is clear enough?

0:23.3

You know about the right to bear arms?

0:24.8

Of course it's clear.

0:25.8

Every American has the right to hang a pair of bear arms on their wall.

0:29.0

How could that possibly be misconstrued?

0:30.8

All right, fantastic then.

0:32.6

Wait, you know what?

0:33.6

Before we send this to the printer, let's take that abortion thing out.

0:39.5

Oh, come on, I move for a hearing on the matter.

0:41.5

What?

0:42.5

You want me to have a special motion on the admissibility of the word asshole?

0:45.6

Well, let me have asked them.

0:47.4

That's close enough.

0:48.4

What law school did you go to?

0:49.8

I'll agree to it with your honor.

0:50.6

You will, why?

0:51.6

I don't want any interlocutorial appeals.

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