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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump: Nuclear weapons issue is a “hoax”

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

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3.73.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Former President Trump says the Washington Post’s reporting that FBI agents found material on foreign nation’s nuclear capabilities at his Mar-a-Lago residence is a “hoax.” The Post reports that some documents were so sensitive that they were kept under lock and key. Retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper is the former Director of National Intelligence. He explains to AC360 the possible national security risk for the U.S. if an adversary did gain access to the documents. Plus, former President Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama returned to the White House for the first joint visit to unveil their official portraits. David Axelrod is a former senior adviser to President Obama and was at the ceremony today. He joins AC360 to discuss the evolving relationship between Biden and Obama.  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 tonight, the evolving reactions to the reporting by the Washington Post published

0:04.9

last night around this time, some 24 hours ago, the Post reported that FBI agents recovered

0:10.5

a document from Mar-a-Lago describing a foreign country's nuclear capabilities.

0:14.5

CNN has yet to confirm the post-reporting.

0:17.7

That said, when reached by the Washington Post for comment and attorney for the former

0:21.1

president did not deny the substance of it, instead, he said something that we've now

0:25.6

started hearing a lot from defenders of the former president in the last 24 hours.

0:30.1

Deflecting on the facts, focusing instead on the leaks.

0:33.6

For example, here's Senator Marco Rubio, who serves on the Senate Intelligence Committee

0:37.0

this past Sunday, explaining why the FBI recovering highly classified documents at Mar-a-Lago

0:41.9

is a storage argument.

0:45.4

This is really at his core a storage argument that they're making, right?

0:48.6

They're arguing there are documents there.

0:50.8

They don't deny that he should have access to those documents.

0:52.9

I don't think a fight over storage of documents is worthy of what they've done.

0:58.2

Well, now that the Washington Post published their report about nuclear secrets, perhaps

1:02.8

being involved, Senator Rubio and others are focusing more of their argument on apparent

1:07.0

leaks.

1:08.0

That doesn't seem like the kind of thing you should have in your post-presidential desk

1:14.9

drawer.

1:15.9

Well, let's break this down.

1:17.8

First of all, again, we really don't know, because let's go back and understand that

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