Reports: Trump allegedly discussed sensitive nuclear submarine information with Mar-a-Lago member

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

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ABC News reports that former President Trump allegedly discussed potentially sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines after he left the White House with a member at his Mar-a-Lago resort. Sources told ABC that the member is Anthony Pratt, an Australian billionaire who reportedly went to share the information with "more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees and a handful of journalists." Former Defense Secretary William Cohen joins AC360 to discuss the reports and says we're watching the "rapid dissolution of democracy" under Trump's hands. Plus, Ukrainian officials say at least 51 people were killed in a Russian strike that hit a café and shop near Kupiansk. Several of those killed were attending a wake for a fallen Ukrainian soldier. CNN Senior International Correspondent Fred Pleitgen is at the scene of the attack. He tells Anderson Cooper what Ukrainian President Zelensky is saying about the strike.

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0:00.0	Tonight out 316 lead disclosed potentially sensitive information about American nuclear
0:06.0	subs at Mar-a-Lago to a fellow billionaire who reportedly told dozens more.
0:11.8	Also tonight with Congressman Jim Jordan lobbying to be House Speaker, the former president
0:15.2	now says he would take the job too.
0:17.9	And later one of the deadliest civilian attacks in Ukraine we have seen more than 50 people
0:22.0	killed at a wake for a fallen soldier we're on the scene with a live report.
0:26.2	Good evening.
0:27.2	We begin tonight with breaking news.
0:28.2	The reporting comes from ABC News and it's about the former president on how allegedly
0:32.2	reckless he has been.
0:34.2	Reckless again, allegedly, beyond keeping highly classified documents at his Florida club
0:38.5	in plain view for all to see.
0:40.9	Here's the lead paragraph of the story from ABC News' website.
0:44.4	Months after leaving the White House, former president Donald Trump allegedly discussed potentially
0:48.5	sensitive information about U.S. nuclear submarines with a member of his Mar-a-Lago club.
0:53.9	An Australian billionaire who then allegedly shared the information with scores of others
0:58.2	including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees and a handful
1:02.8	of journalists according to sources familiar with the matter.
1:06.2	Now the ABC story identifies the billionaire as the Anthony Pratt and says the FBI and
1:10.3	federal prosecutors have interviewed him at least twice this year.
1:13.9	In those interviews again, according to ABC sources, Pratt told prosecutors he struck
1:17.6	up a conversation with the former president during a meeting at Mar-a-Lago in April of
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