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The Lead with Jake Tapper

Tonight: deadline for Trump’s lawyers

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Donald Trump’s lawyers have only hours left to respond to the DOJ’s blockbuster court filing complete with a stunning picture and details about how prosecutors say Trump’s team tried to hide classified material to obstruct the FBI investigation. Then, we explore the frightening reality where election workers are getting their instructions from conspiracy theories. Plus, it is day three without water in Jackson, Mississippi. 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

As one conservative lawyer said, Trump's legal team basically asked the Justice Department

0:07.0

to punch them in the face.

0:08.9

The lead starts right now.

0:11.9

Donald Trump's lawyers have only hours left to respond to the DOJ's blockbuster court

0:16.2

filing, complete with a stunning picture and details about how prosecutors say Trump's

0:21.4

team tried to hide classified material to obstruct the FBI investigation.

0:27.4

Then what happens when election deniers are put in charge of elections?

0:31.6

We'll show you this frightening reality where election workers are getting their instructions

0:35.6

from conspiracy theories.

0:37.4

Plus, day three without water in Jackson, Mississippi and the situation is so bad, the hospital

0:44.5

does not have air conditioning, but one part of a temporary fix has arrived.

0:54.5

Welcome to the lead.

0:55.5

I'm Casey Hunt and today for Jake Tapper.

0:56.8

We start today with our politics lead.

0:58.9

Donald Trump's legal team is on the clock.

1:01.4

They have just under four hours to submit their response to a scathing court filing from

1:06.0

the Department of Justice, which accused the former president of pushing a, quote, incomplete

1:10.5

and inaccurate narrative about the FBI raid at Mar-a-Lago.

1:14.6

The DOJ went on to make an even more damning assertion that it has proof that documents

1:20.2

were moved from a storage room at the floor to resort and possibly hidden in an effort

1:25.3

to obstruct the FBI's investigation.

1:28.2

The DOJ also filing included a signed letter from a Trump lawyer swearing at the beginning

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