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Trump responds in court to blockbuster DOJ filing about Mar-a-Lago investigation

Anderson Cooper 360

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3.7 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Former President Donald Trump has formally responded in court to the Justice Department’s filing on Tuesday night, which revealed new details about the Mar-a-Lago investigation. Trump’s lawyers argued in their court filing Wednesday night that the National Archives should have expected to find classified material among the 15 boxes Trump turned over in January because they were presidential records. They also argue the Justice Department “significantly mischaracterized” a June 3 visit by DOJ and FBI officials at Mar-a-Lago. And there are other claims in the court filing. Perspective from CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Josh Campbell, Sara Murray and CNN Senior Law Enforcement Analyst and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe and Shan Wu, who is a defense attorney and former federal prosecutor.  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

All right, as you just heard, the former president's legal team has just had it say after the

0:05.8

Justice Department says a mouthful about classified documents at Mar-a-Lago.

0:10.3

John Berman here in Prandterson seconds ago.

0:13.6

Lawyers for the former president took the next step in their effort to force an independent

0:17.2

review of materials taken from his Florida mansion.

0:20.2

Their court filing, which we just got our hands on, second ago, caps a day of reaction

0:26.3

to a Justice Department filing and the picture, this one, an attachment F. It shows highly

0:31.6

classified documents that the FBI says it found, despite written assurance two months prior

0:36.6

according to DOJ, that none remain there.

0:39.9

CNN has learned that Trump attorney and former OAM anchor Christina Bob was at least one

0:44.3

of the people giving those assurances, even signing a letter saying so.

0:48.4

The DOJ filing goes on to say that documents were, quote, likely concealed and removed from

0:53.2

a storage room at Mar-a-Lago as part of an effort to, quote, obstruct, unquote, the FBI

0:58.8

investigation.

1:00.0

It says that some recovered items were so highly classified that even some FBI counterintelligence

1:05.0

personnel and others needed additional security clearances to review them.

1:09.8

So that's from the DOJ filing.

1:11.6

Now again, just seconds ago, we got the Trump teams reply, CNN, Sarah Murray and Josh Campbell

1:18.5

join us now with a look at what's in it, Sarah, you're just getting your hands on it.

1:23.3

What can you tell us?

1:24.3

That's right.

1:25.3

So we are just starting to look through this, but essentially what the Trump team is focused

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