Special Episode: FBI Vet Frank Figliuzzi Breaks Down the Mar A Lago Affidavit

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🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Today we have a special episode of Mea Culpa with our old friend Frank Figliuzzi. Frank is a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served for 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations across the entire government. Frank is a regular contributor for NBC News and MSNBC, and also the author of the national bestseller “The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence.” And check out his most recent OP-Ed on the MSNBC opinion page, entitled “There’s a Reason Why Hoarding Classified Documents is a Crime." Frank breaks down for us the redacted version of the Mar-a-Lago search warrant affidavit and what it possibly means for the Mandarin Mussolini.

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0:00.0	This is Michael Cohen and you're listening to the Mayor Copa podcast.
0:27.9	This is the FBI search and seizure of stolen classified documents from Donald Trump's
0:33.4	Florida Country Club, Mar-a-Lardo.
0:36.4	It's been near impossible to keep up with the daily barrage of facts and opinions surrounding
0:42.3	the unprecedented case.
0:44.9	Who would have imagined that a former president would become perhaps the biggest threat to
0:50.0	national security in the history of the Republic?
0:54.3	Trump snatched literally hundreds of sensitive documents on his way out of the White House.
1:00.7	Documents that did not belong to him, many of them marked up secret, and then he held
1:05.5	them hostage despite the best efforts of the National Archives to retrieve them.
1:11.8	Trump lied, connived, and ignored a subpoena.
1:15.3	He gave back some documents but not all of them, and the standoff continued.
1:21.2	Finally, the FBI swooped in, no former president had ever been shaken down by the FBI before,
1:29.1	and what the search revealed has shocked the world.
1:33.2	Last week, a highly redacted 38-page affidavit provided enough damning evidence against
1:39.9	Trump to warrant an indictment.
1:42.6	So he had to break down the various ramifications of the crime that may finally bring the man
1:48.3	to a Mussolini down, his legal expert Frank Fogluzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence
1:56.1	at the FBI where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage investigations
2:04.5	across the entire government.
2:06.7	Fogluzzi has said, there's not much that astonishes me, but reading the classification
2:12.7	markings referred to in this affidavit made the hair on my back of my neck stand up.
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