Trump requests new review of intel. docs; “The Devil’s Advocate” turns 25 as Trump tests how far real-life lawyers will go
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And I want to welcome you to the beat tonight. I am Ari Melbourne. I'm going to tell you right off the top. |
| 0:05.5 | We have a special show tonight, including a special report for you, brand new, on how Trump lawyers keep getting in trouble, some even indicted, often because of their client. |
| 0:15.2 | I say that not as shade or criticism, but as an objective legal matter. They get in trouble for the things they do for |
| 0:22.2 | him, not unrelated legal failures, which sometimes brings up talk of the devil's advocate. |
| 0:28.2 | I will explain our breakdown on that is ahead. Our top story right now, though, are the continuing |
| 0:33.4 | clashes over that search of Mar-a-Lago and whether more information will come out about a |
| 0:38.1 | path to what was an unprecedented search of an ex-president's home in all of our history. |
| 0:43.2 | Well, today we're seeing a judicial ruling about releasing more information for the first time. |
| 0:49.3 | This would be new beyond what we learned about the warrant. |
| 0:51.8 | So we have a written explanation of this ruling, which came |
| 0:55.2 | down where the DOJ can suggest redactions. Some more information may also be released in a process |
| 1:00.8 | by this judge. Now, Trump has said he wants extra information released. Today, the judge indirectly |
| 1:07.3 | suggested that Trump and some other MAGA attacks on law enforcement will actually make that harder and less likely. |
| 1:14.4 | The ruling citing how, for one example, the conservative website Breitbart, which used to be run by Steve Bannon, who's awaiting his sentencing, |
| 1:22.1 | how that website, under its current ownership, leaked a version of the original warrant with FBI agent names on it. |
| 1:29.3 | Most news outlets, including this one, strictly avoid that kind of disclosure of individuals' names |
| 1:35.7 | unless there was a major journalistic reason. |
| 1:38.6 | And the judge referred to the harassment and the attacks that those agents then endured, |
| 1:43.5 | as well as attacks on other law |
| 1:45.1 | enforcement largely from right-wing Trump allies lately. Meanwhile, the former president has |
| 1:50.7 | struggled to settle, if you will, or pick one legal strategy in this controversial case that |
| 1:56.7 | has been really going now for a couple weeks and drawn a lot of attention, |
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