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Laura Coates Live

Trump’s document defense dismissed by 18 top officials

Laura Coates Live

CNN

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Trump’s claim of issuing a “standing order” to declassify the documents recovered by the FBI from his Mar-a-Lago home is dismissed by 18 of his top administration officials, with his former Chief of Staff John Kelly stating “nothing approaching an order that foolish was ever given”. The panel discusses Trump’s evolving defense strategy against his possible Espionage Act violations, and also his public push to have the affidavit behind the FBI’s search warrant unsealed.That, as Trump’s former chief financial officer pleads guilty to a 15-year tax fraud scheme and is expected to serve 100 days behind bars after agreeing to testify at trial if the New York Attorney General’s investigation into the Trump Organization’s business practices moves forward. Plus, a federal judge blocks Florida Governor Desantis’ “Stop-woke” law, and Cleveland Browns quarter back Deshaun Watson is suspended for 11 games and fined $5M following his sexual misconduct case.Hosted by Alisyn Camerota. 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

5 Alice in Camarata and this is CNN Tonight.

0:04.4

Will we all get to see the extensive affidavit behind the FBI's retrieval of 20 plus boxes

0:10.9

containing highly classified documents that Donald Trump took with him from the White

0:15.2

House tomorrow, a judge says maybe, but not yet.

0:19.9

And we may have to read between a lot of redactions.

0:22.8

The battle to unseal the affidavit, meaning the justification behind the FBI search, played

0:28.1

out in a Florida courtroom today.

0:29.9

The same federal judge who approved the search warrant to look for all of those classified

0:33.9

and top secret documents opened the door to the possibility that portions of the affidavit

0:39.1

could be made public as soon as next week.

0:41.9

But first, he's giving prosecutors the opportunity to propose redactions and explain why each piece

0:47.6

of information should be kept from the public.

0:50.3

The Justice Department says all of it needs to remain sealed.

0:53.6

They say releasing it could quote, cause significant and irreparable damage to the ongoing

0:58.4

criminal investigation as well as to witnesses.

1:01.7

The judge did unseal four new documents tied to the search warrant and there is some new

1:06.6

info in there.

1:08.5

Last week, we learned the possible crimes that prosecutors were looking into, violations

1:12.8

of the espionage act, obstruction of justice, and criminal handling of government records.

1:18.3

So now, we're learning a little more about what those mean.

1:22.1

Prosecutors say the potential crimes are number one, the willful retention of national defense

1:26.5

information, as well as the concealment or removal of government records and obstruction

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