Questions Remain As FBI Raids Mar-a-Lago
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
FBI agents executed a search warrant on the Florida home of former president Donald Trump Monday, though it remains unclear what they were looking for. We explore and contextualize the implications of the search, both politically and historically, as Republicans and Democrats alike prepare for the midterm elections this fall.
This episode: voting correspondent Miles Parks, justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Branch Dmerce from Albuquerque, New Mexico. |
| 0:03.0 | It's the morning of my 19th birthday, and I just finished a celebratory bike ride of |
| 0:07.1 | the San Diego Crest Trail, a beautiful mountain trail along the back side of the San |
| 0:11.2 | Diego Mountains that takes you 13 miles and over 3,000 feet up to the peak of the San |
| 0:16.8 | Diego Mountains. |
| 0:18.2 | This podcast was recorded at 2.10 pm on August 9, 2022. |
| 0:23.6 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this. |
| 0:25.7 | Like hopefully, my legs will be able to walk again. |
| 0:28.2 | Enjoy the show. |
| 0:33.1 | You will be able to walk again one day. |
| 0:34.8 | I was saying my quads were burning just hearing that. |
| 0:38.3 | You know, we have such fit, active listeners. |
| 0:41.0 | There's always doing something interesting. |
| 0:43.0 | Hey there, it's the Empire Politics Podcast. |
| 0:45.6 | I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Ryan Lucas, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 0:49.6 | And I'm Dominic Amantiner, our Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 0:52.8 | We're learning more about yesterday's FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago, home to former President |
| 0:57.2 | Donald Trump. |
| 0:58.6 | Trump's son, Eric, told Fox News, the search had to do with an investigation over classified |
| 1:03.3 | records that the former president took with him after leaving office. |
| 1:07.3 | Sean, the purpose of the raid from what they said was because the National Archives wanted |
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