Some Justice Department officials chafe at silence on Mar-a-Lago search

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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CNN has learned that some DOJ officials feel that the department should give a public statement about the search of Mar-a-Lago, former President Trump’s resort and home. Conservative lawyer George Conway tells AC360 he doesn’t think they need to say anything more than what “their procedures are and what their processes are generally for the issuance of search warrants.” Plus, Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders joins AC360 to discuss the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act and why he ultimately decided to support it.Airdate: August 10, 2022Guests: George Conway, Sen. Bernie Sanders. 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	Good evening.
0:01.0	Tonight, New Reporting Justice Department officials pushing the department to do the one
0:05.1	thing it tries never to do and caused disaster the last time it did, namely going public
0:10.2	about an active investigation of a political figure close to an election.
0:14.4	In this case, a former president who ironically benefited the last time the department straight
0:18.7	from that policy back in 2016 with its very public reopening of the FBI's Hillary Clinton
0:23.8	email investigation.
0:25.5	Now this latest development, which will bring you details on shortly, comes only two days
0:29.5	after he became the first current or former president ever to be hit with the search warrant.
0:34.7	And just hours after becoming the first ever to invoke his Fifth Amendment right against
0:38.0	self-incrimination, which is a pillar of civil liberties, but which he used to say only
0:42.7	mobsters do, until he took the fifth and saying what only mobsters say whenever they're
0:47.5	searched, in this case, suggesting without anything at all to back it up, that federal
0:51.6	agents planted evidence when they searched Mar-a-Lago on Monday, which then quickly became
0:56.5	a Republican talking point, or in the case of Lindsey Graham, Senator Graham, who sits
1:00.6	on the Judiciary Committee and who clearly should know better just another toxic idea
1:05.4	to smile and not along with.
1:09.2	We know they dovetail evidence.
1:10.6	We know they plant evidence.
1:12.7	We know they hide evidence.
1:14.0	We know they lie.
1:15.0	We know they leak.
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