Unsealed document in Mar-a-Lago search sharpens focus on Trump as possible subject of criminal probe

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🗓️ 19 August 2022

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A judge unsealed several court documents related to the FBI’s search of former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort and set in motion the possible public release of a heavily redacted version of the affidavit. Former federal judge Nancy Gertner joins AC360 to discuss the judge’s decision and says it’s “very surprising.” Plus, the former President and his allies have claimed there was a “standing order” to declassify documents he took from the Oval Office to the White House residence but CNN spoke to 18 former Trump administration officials who said they never heard of that policy. One senior administration official called it “bullsh*t.” Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton was one of the 18 officials CNN spoke with. He explains to Anderson Cooper if the “standing order” existed, it’d make “no sense whatsoever.” 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	Good evening.
0:01.0	We are one step closer tonight to knowing what the government's criminal case may be
0:04.8	against the former president.
0:06.4	And we may get closer still because the federal judge who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago
0:10.5	search warrant signaled his intention to make public at least portions of the government's
0:14.8	detailed affidavit in support of it.
0:17.3	He unsealed a number of documents today and we're going to have details for you in just
0:20.5	a moment.
0:21.5	Also ahead tonight, what some of the former president's top White House officials make of his claim
0:25.9	that he had a standing policy of declassifying documents by default.
0:30.5	And there's also new reporting tonight on why he's been calling for all court papers
0:33.8	in the case to be made public, but not doing so in the one place that it matters most,
0:37.9	the courtroom.
0:38.9	Also, CNN's Clorce Award is in Afghanistan and her harrowing return to a place deeply affected
0:44.4	by the war and what she found when she got there one year after American troops departing.
0:48.5	We begin though with the search in Mar-a-Lago and the fighting court today over unsealing
0:51.9	documents.
0:52.9	And the discussion item has that, so just go walk us through what the judge ordered today.
0:57.2	Yeah, so I understand the judge telling DOJ to really go back to the drawing board and
1:01.6	find a way to at least release some of this information from the affidavit.
1:05.1	So the judge is telling prosecutors two things, proposed redactions, but also better explain
1:10.1	why they need to keep large sections of this secret.
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