Trump: classified material "was to be fully anticipated" in presidential records
Laura Coates Live
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🗓️ 1 September 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Victor Black. Well, this is CNN tonight down to the wire right before the deadline in 8 |
| 0:06.4 | PM Eastern. The Trump team filed its response to the Justice Department's blockbuster |
| 0:11.2 | brief revealing new details about its ongoing criminal investigation. Now this filing |
| 0:15.8 | was 19 pages. It did acknowledge that classified material was found at Mar-a-Lago earlier this |
| 0:21.5 | month, but essentially it says that it wasn't a big deal. Trump's filing says, quote, |
| 0:26.4 | the purported justification for the initiation of this criminal probe was the alleged discovery |
| 0:31.7 | of sensitive information contained within the 15 boxes of presidential records. But this |
| 0:36.6 | discovery, in quotes, was to be fully anticipated, given the very nature of presidential records. |
| 0:43.5 | Simply put, the notion that presidential records would contain sensitive information |
| 0:47.4 | should have never been caused for alarm. Now this is all part of a bid by the Trump team |
| 0:52.5 | to have this special mass reported to review items taken from Mar-a-Lago by the FBI. A |
| 0:57.9 | judge holds a hearing on that tomorrow. And this comes on the heels of the very serious |
| 1:02.4 | claims laid out in the Justice Department's 36 page filing, including another quote here, |
| 1:07.4 | evidence that government records were likely concealed and removed from the storage room |
| 1:12.4 | at the Trump home and that efforts were likely taken to obstruct the government's investigation. |
| 1:18.0 | And for the first time, we got this visual of some of the classified documents seized |
| 1:22.2 | from Donald Trump's home that also serves as a hotel. Now, some of those documents are |
| 1:26.7 | said to be so highly sensitive that even the FBI counterintelligence personnel and DOJ |
| 1:32.9 | attorneys conducting the review required additional clearances before they were permitted |
| 1:37.9 | to review. And these were found after Trump's lawyers told the DOJ he didn't have anymore. |
| 1:43.8 | Two sources tell CNN that lawyer was Christina Bob, who said this after the search |
| 1:47.8 | warrant was executed. |
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