Trump: Nuclear weapons issue is a “hoax”
Anderson Cooper 360
CNN
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🗓️ 8 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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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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