Special counsel will oversee Trump federal criminal investigations

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to oversee the federal criminal investigations into former President Trump. Jack Smith will look into the retention of national defense information at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and parts of the January 6 insurrection. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe tells AC360 what this announcement says about where investigators are in their probes. Plus, authorities are still looking for a suspect five days after four University of Idaho students were fatally stabbed in their off-campus home. Garrett Cabeza is a reporter for the Spokesman-Review. He joins AC360 to give an update on the investigation. 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	Three days after the former president officially proclaimed he is running again, the U.S. Attorney
0:06.5	General announced that a special prosecutor would now lead two, separate ongoing federal
0:11.6	probes that could complicate his path back to the White House to say the least.
0:16.6	One into the former president's role surrounding January 6th, the other investigation into
0:21.2	the documents Mark classified taken to Mar-a-Lago, and the possible obstruction of that investigation
0:27.0	to boot.
0:28.0	I'm John Berman in for Anderson, Attorney General Merrick Garland, cited the extraordinary
0:32.6	circumstances of the situation.
0:36.1	Based on recent developments, including the former president's announcement that he
0:40.4	is a candidate for president in the next election, and the sitting president's stated intention
0:46.0	to be a candidate as well, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint
0:51.8	a special counsel.
0:54.2	The former president today acted furious about the news, telling conservative media the
0:58.9	move is not acceptable, unfair, political, and he said, quote, I'm not going to partake
1:04.7	in this, not that he has much of a choice in the matter.
1:08.1	The new special counsel, Jack Smith, is a former acting U.S. attorney who said the investigations
1:12.5	would not pause or flag under his watch.
1:15.0	We're going to have more on him in just a moment.
1:17.3	Let's get right to seeing an senior legal affairs correspondent, Paula Reed.
1:20.7	What else, Paula, did Attorney General Merrick Garland say about appointing this special
1:24.9	counsel?
1:25.9	Well, John, we knew this was something under consideration within the Justice Department.
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