Special master questions Trump claims about declassifying Mar-a-Lago docs

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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The special master overseeing the FBI’s seizure of documents from Mar-a-Lago questioned former President Trump’s claims that the documents were declassified. Judge Raymond Dearie told Trump’s lawyers that if they don’t make a case that the evidence was declassified, he would determine they’re classified. CNN National Security and Legal Analyst Carrie Cordero tells Anderson Cooper what she makes of the Trump team’s refusal to go on the record in front of the special master with its claims about the classification status of those documents. Plus, CNN International Security Editor Nick Paton Walsh joins AC360 from Kramatorsk, Ukraine to give an update on the ongoing battle between Ukrainian and Russian forces. 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.
0:02.0	What happens now that lawyers for the former president have seen their wishes fulfilled
0:05.6	only to learn it might be more than they bargained for?
0:08.3	They wanted a court appointed special master to scrutinize documents, including one's
0:12.0	mark top secret and higher taken from Mar-a-Lago.
0:15.4	They wanted it so badly.
0:16.6	The opening line of their August 22nd court filing before Judge Eileen can in red and
0:20.9	I'm quoting now, politics cannot be allowed to impact the administration of justice.
0:25.5	Those were their stakes.
0:26.8	Well, they got a special master.
0:28.7	They proposed New York senior federal judge Raymond Deerey for the job.
0:32.4	They got him.
0:33.5	They got more from Judge Cannon, including a deadline for the review will pass the midterm
0:37.7	elections.
0:38.7	But today, having gotten what they wanted, they wanted to judge Deerey's court for the
0:42.5	first time.
0:43.5	And we're called on to do something they have notably not done in any court filing or
0:47.6	proceeding so far, namely back up with their client and his allies have been suggesting
0:53.0	or outright saying that these documents were declassified.
0:57.0	So many words prove it.
0:58.7	And for the government's part today, they signaled a willingness to take this dispute
1:02.1	all the way to the Supreme Court.
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