Trump’s document defense dismissed by 18 top officials
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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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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