Questions of Trump compromising classified material follow familiar pattern
The Rachel Maddow Show
Rachel Maddow, MS NOW
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🗓️ 10 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. We're happy to have you with us. And in normal times, |
| 0:05.0 | this is not what you'd expect to see. Emblasoned across the front page of the New York Times, |
| 0:10.1 | a headline in all caps that a former president's home was just searched by the FBI in South Florida. |
| 0:17.2 | Then again, normal went out the window a long time ago. The Times adds that the focus is said to be |
| 0:22.8 | on White House files aside that inquiries are widening. Here's the Washington Post today, |
| 0:28.7 | quote, FBI agents searched Trump's safe in documents probe in all caps. The sub headline, quote, |
| 0:34.7 | unusual move ordered by court, handling of classified papers under scrutiny. |
| 0:40.7 | The past 24 hours have been a doozy. It was yesterday evening when the former president Donald |
| 0:46.0 | Trump put out a rambling chest pounding, feet stomping statement announcing to the world that |
| 0:51.8 | the FBI had raided his words, his Florida home. The so-called law and order president |
| 0:57.7 | decried the search, called it a witch hunt, and even gave a shout out to Hillary Clinton. |
| 1:02.4 | But her emails. He did, however, let the world know a fascinating detail that the FBI got into his |
| 1:09.6 | safe as part of their search. So let's take a step back now. It's been 24 hours. |
| 1:14.8 | I acknowledge the seriousness of what happened yesterday. Justice Department officials didn't |
| 1:19.5 | just wake up yesterday and decide, hey, let's send some federal agents to search the immediate |
| 1:24.0 | past president's home because we think a crime was committed there. What this hours-long search |
| 1:29.2 | on Trump's home means is that law enforcement had to convince a federal judge that there was |
| 1:34.8 | probable cause that a crime was committed there. Federal prosecutors had to present evidence |
| 1:40.2 | and to make their case, and they obviously succeeded in convincing a judge and were able to obtain |
| 1:44.8 | a search warrant that they executed yesterday on Trump's Florida estate. Now let's go back in time. |
| 1:50.8 | We learned in February, thanks to some intrepid reporters at the Washington Post, |
| 1:55.2 | that the National Archives retrieved 15 boxes of documents, some including highly classified |
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