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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Sen. Graham loses new bid to avoid facing GA grand jury

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Prosecutors in Georgia outline why they want Senator Lindsey Graham to appear before a special grand jury as this latest case investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election takes a new turn. Also, Russia threatens to take Europe’s largest nuclear power plant offline. Plus, the tech giant Apple is warning a security flaw could allow iPhones and iPads to get hacked. 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

Senator Lindsey Graham looks like he's next up on the witness list. The lead starts right now.

0:09.0

Crucial witness, prosecutors in Georgia spelling out why they want the Republican lawmaker to appear before. Crui 20 election takes a new turn and power move Russia threatening to take Europe's

0:25.3

largest nuclear power plant offline as its standoff with Ukraine fuels fear of a

0:31.1

nuclear disaster. Plus, Apple Alert, the Tech Giant warns a security flaw

0:37.1

could allow iPhones and iPads to get hacked. What should you do right now to protect your devices?

0:44.0

Welcome to Lea, I'm Jake Tapper.

0:50.0

We start today with our politics lead in the six words sounding new alarms in Trump world.

0:56.2

Documents unsealed by a federal judge related to that FBI raid at Marolago include the phrase,

1:03.7

willful retention of national defense information,

1:07.2

willful retention of national defense information.

1:10.0

Legal experts tell CNN,

1:12.0

that phrase sharpens the focus on the former president

1:16.4

as a possible subject of the Justice Department's criminal investigation.

1:20.9

And another Trump-related investigation, the one down in Georgia a federal judge

1:25.3

there just ruled that she will not put on hold the ruling that Republican

1:29.6

Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina must appear before that Fulton County special

1:35.0

grand jury next week.

1:36.8

Prosecutors said in a filing today that Graham's testimony is crucial to the

1:40.7

investigation into Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election in that state.

1:45.8

Graham has argued that his calls to Georgia election officials were entirely appropriate

1:51.3

as part of his role on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he argued,

1:55.0

though Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffinsberger

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