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Anderson Cooper 360

President Biden's shifting tone

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

President Biden warned about former President Trump’s influence on “MAGA Republicans” during his speech Thursday night suggesting the future of American democracy was at risk.  The speech also highlighted a shift in his tone just weeks before the midterms. Biden has ramped up his criticism of the former president and his followers.  But the White House insists his message was not political. CNN political analyst and journalist Carl Bernstein joins AC360 to give his take on Biden’s speech. 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

File this one under W for where are the documents?

0:05.3

John Berman here in Feranderson, and we should point out right off the top that the presence

0:09.3

of 48 empty folders at Mara Lago marked classified does not automatically imply 48 missing

0:16.5

classified documents.

0:18.0

However, that fact revealed today in a new or more detailed inventory from the search

0:22.4

of Mara Lago certainly does raise questions.

0:25.6

For example, about how material marked classified was stored and kept track of at the former

0:31.0

president's resort, if at all.

0:33.2

Questions about why the material marked classified that was found had been intermingled with press

0:37.9

clippings, clothing, and other knickknacks.

0:40.4

Questions about what the former president was doing was some 11,000 non-classified documents

0:46.1

that this new inventory says were recovered.

0:48.7

Federal District Judge Eileen Cannon released a catalog as she prepares to rule on the

0:52.6

former president's push for a court appointed special master to review the seized material,

0:59.0

which today on Fox, former Attorney General William Barr called, quote, a waste of time and

1:03.6

quote, a red herring.

1:05.7

He also said, loud and clear that his old boss brought this on himself by taking what

1:09.9

did not belong to him, refusing to give it back, and he seemed to suggest perhaps obstructing

1:15.2

justice with his legal team deceiving investigators.

1:22.0

I think the driver on this from the beginning was loads of classified information sitting

1:27.3

in Maru Lago.

1:28.3

People say this was unprecedented, but it's also unprecedented for a president to take

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