Senator Graham Testifies Before Georgia Grand Jury

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Senator Lindsey Graham testifies before a Georgia Grand Jury in the probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. With the 2024 election on the horizon, Biden plans to spend the holiday mulling over whether to run. Plus, CNN talks to army veteran Richard Fierro, who tackled and disarmed the Colorado gunman, saving countless lives in the Club Q tragedy. 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	They say don't talk politics at the holiday dinner table, but in a year like this, how
0:06.6	can you not the lead starts right now?
0:09.7	The Justice Department today challenging the need for a special master.
0:13.9	Does a third party really need to review the documents taken from Mar-a-Lago?
0:18.2	That is the question today, as a close Trump ally appears before a grand jury.
0:23.2	Plus, the takedown of a Colorado nightclub shooting suspect, a decorated army veteran,
0:29.6	active duty Navy sailor, and a woman using her heels likely saved lives.
0:34.8	And on this busiest day for Thanksgiving air travel, how airlines are trying to keep
0:38.6	up with the demand and save you from air travel misery.
0:46.3	Welcome to the lead.
0:47.3	I'm Brianna Keeler, in for Jake Tapper, a legal storm swirling around former President
0:51.5	Donald Trump.
0:52.5	Federal prosecutors arguing in court today that a special master is not needed to review
0:57.4	the material seized by the FBI from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
1:01.6	A move that if granted would supercharge the pace at which the newly appointed special
1:06.8	counsel could review the 22,000 pages of documents recovered.
1:11.2	Prosecutors are looking to determine whether Trump committed obstruction of justice,
1:15.6	mishandled government records, or violated the Espionage Act.
1:20.2	And in Georgia today, one of Trump's closest allies, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham
1:24.3	of South Carolina, was forced to appear before the Fulton County Grand Jury investigating
1:29.4	efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
1:32.4	Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Grafinsberger, has said that Graham called him in 2020 and
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