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The Beat with Ari Melber

Trump search warrant unsealed, reveals FBI found “top secret” docs at Trump home

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, Versant Media, Daily News, Versant, News, Government, Ms Now

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, August 12 and reports on the unsealing of the search warrant of Trump's Mar-A-Lago property, the revelations that the FBI found "top secret" documents there, and the legal implications of the three potential felonies cited in the warrant. Fmr. CIA officer David Priess and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson join. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the beat. I am Ari Melbra and we begin with this breaking news.

0:05.3

The Mar-Lago search warrant has been unsealed. We have it. You may have heard. And most importantly,

0:13.5

as you see here, this is something we don't usually get. We've never gotten it for a former president.

0:19.4

And we had no idea when the week started that we'd be going through it.

0:23.8

A documented list of the things that Donald Trump allegedly took or stole property of the U.S. government and intelligence material.

0:32.8

We're going to get into this right now. We start with what's in here.

0:35.5

We don't start with the law, although it is the law that brought us this information. We start with the search warrants, property, and inventory list. So let's take a look. You're going to see at the top how this works. Search and seizure warrant. You see that right there. You have that on Trump's Mar-a-Lago premises, page one of it. Then on page five, and if we can, we'll bring this to you in full. Can we bring that up for everybody? Do we have that ability? I want everyone to see, yes, exactly what we have. I'm telling you, this is not the kind of thing we've ever gotten before, and I'm going to walk you through what it means right now. This is the receipt for property according to the FBI.

1:12.4

The items listed, collected slash seized in that legal process from Mar-a-Lago. And now I want to

1:20.2

break down with you some of what we're learning. This is all brand new, so let's go through it

1:24.2

together. About 21 boxes, two photo binders, one leatherbound box of documents, one handwritten note.

1:33.0

This is all new today.

1:35.5

This was not released until Merrick Garland went forward, as you know, and called out Donald Trump,

1:41.7

and then it began to leak, and now it's out officially unsealed.

1:45.3

We also know that the feds on Monday took what they describe as Roger Stone's Grant of Clemency

1:51.2

and some sort of information, much of this secret, so we don't have the underlying information,

1:56.2

but what they describe for the purposes of this seized property list as information regarding the French

2:03.0

President. Let's keep going. The FBI confiscating classified top secret and SCI documents. That's the

2:11.7

type of information that must be stored in a special facility for sensitive material, often called

2:17.1

a skiff. We heard about that a lot in the Mueller material, often called a skiff.

2:17.9

We heard about that a lot in the Mueller days, and it is legally and physically protected

2:22.7

and walled off from other top secret clearance holders.

2:27.1

We also now know tonight, new, four entries regarding top secret documents seized from Donald Trump's home,

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