Trump tried to send message to A.G. Garland after home search
Laura Coates Live
CNN
3.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone on Lara Coates and this is CNN Tonight, book, It's been two weeks since the Mar-a-Lago |
| 0:06.2 | search, two weeks. |
| 0:08.7 | And now, Donald Trump's legal team has gone on the offense finally. |
| 0:13.1 | I should clarify, I mean the offense inside of a courtroom, not the court of public opinion. |
| 0:18.2 | Now, they filed its first lawsuit since the FBI searched and seized items from the ex-presidents |
| 0:23.3 | home exactly two weeks ago today. |
| 0:26.7 | And there's a whole lot to unpack. |
| 0:29.0 | And since it's beginning with exactly what Trump is now asking for in this filing, because |
| 0:34.1 | in this new filing today, there's about four main requests. |
| 0:38.4 | Now, one is for a special master. |
| 0:40.6 | That's a third party to be appointed by the court who oversees the review of evidence |
| 0:45.4 | gathered on either side of the parties. |
| 0:48.8 | Another ask they have is to pause the DOJ from reviewing the events until that review |
| 0:54.5 | by the special master has been completed. |
| 0:57.9 | They're also seeking a more detailed receipt, shall we say, of the property that was removed |
| 1:03.2 | from Mar-a-Lago, and they want DOJ to give them back whatever was not within the scope |
| 1:08.6 | of that search warrant. |
| 1:10.1 | Now in this suit, Trump also argues that his constitutional rights have been violated. |
| 1:14.6 | And now there is also confirmation of previous reporting in this filing that Trump tried |
| 1:20.4 | to get some sort of a message to a Attorney General in Merrick Garland three days after |
| 1:25.5 | the search. |
| 1:26.5 | Now let's just say that message was probably equal parts unconventional and entitled. |
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