Trump alarms nuclear experts after revealing secrets to foreign national

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Ari Melber, MS NOW

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🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jason Johnson hosts "The Beat" on Friday, October 6 and reports on the explosive allegation that Trump shared nuclear secrets related to U.S. submarines with a foreign national. Plus, the latest on Trump's ongoing legal trials, and the chaos engulfing the House GOP caucus, as Rep. Jim Jordan receives Donald Trump's endorsement to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. Renato Mariotti, Joe Cirincione and Elie Mystal join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the beat, I'm Jason Johnson, and for our emailber. We start tonight with the explosive
0:05.1	reporting that dramatically adds to Donald Trump's legal peril and exposes him as a threat to
0:10.9	national security surprise. Trump allegedly sharing secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines
0:16.2	to a Mar-a-Lago club member after he left office. Trump revealing, quote,
0:21.3	how many nuclear warheads the vessels carried and how close they could get to their Russian
0:25.6	counterparts without being detected. Trump telling these secrets to an Australian billionaire
0:30.8	businessman named Anthony Pratt. Pratt then turned around and told scores of others,
0:35.8	including more than a dozen foreign officials, several of his own employees, and a handful of journalists.
0:42.7	Jackson's team has already interviewed Pratt as part of the investigation, making Pratt, quote,
0:46.9	among more than 80 people whom prosecutors have identified as possible witnesses to testify against Trump.
0:53.6	This bombshell was not included in the Trump indictment, which suggests that Jack Smith
0:57.6	has a lot more evidence on what has been made public so far. Smith is likely to use Trump's own
1:03.3	history against him. In 2017, Trump gave up highly classified information to the Russian foreign
1:08.8	minister in the Oval Office. Trump later tweeted out this secret photo of an Iranian missile site.
1:14.8	He also told another foreign leader about the location of two U.S. nuclear submarines near North
1:19.9	Korea. All of that speaks to how Trump played fast and loose with secrets as president and
1:26.2	continued to do so even after he left office. Jackson's evidence includes this audio tape of Trump
1:32.8	showing U.S. war plans to attack Iran. This was him. This wasn't done by me. This was him.
1:40.8	All sorts of stuff. Pages wrong. Wait a minute, let's see. Yeah, I just, it's not amazing.
1:53.2	This totally wins my case, you know, except it is highly confidential. This is secret information.
2:03.2	Trump's criminal trial begins on this matter begins in March of 2024 and for it.
2:09.5	Joining me now to discuss is Renato Marriotti, former federal prosecutor and Joe Serencioni,
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