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The Beat with Ari Melber

Unsealed Trump search info shows he defied requests for over 6 months

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

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

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Friday, August 26th and reports on the newly unsealed, heavily redacted Trump search affidavit. The information reveals more about the unprecedented search of Mar-A-Lago and suspicion over criminal evidence. Former FBI special agent Asha Rangappa, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and authors Mark Liebovich and Jay McInerney 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

This is a Friday with breaking news.

0:04.5

Today, a judge released the roadmap to that unprecedented search of Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home,

0:10.2

meaning the world now knows more now tonight about this search than yesterday or ever before.

0:17.2

And to be clear with you, we are also learning some things about what prosecutors don't want anyone to know about the open criminal probe.

0:25.4

So we have this information, which we didn't have until today, and that is legally interesting.

0:30.9

We'll go through it.

0:32.0

We also have this not information, a large swaths of redactions.

0:36.8

I could even put them like, you know, redact my face. You can't get much detail out of this and it was approved by a judge, which does tell us something, although not what's under the redaction.

0:50.4

So we have this unprecedented clash over federal powers, over the prerogatives of a former president, the suspicion about criminal evidence.

0:58.8

All of this is here in the ballpark.

1:01.0

And if you've heard today or tonight, oh, we know everything now, I can tell you, no, we don't.

1:05.3

Obviously, we have to be careful about what's redacted.

1:09.6

We're learning new things.

1:12.1

So I'm going to go through the facts with you right now. The roadmap here that's been released, the affidavit, shows how agents initially

1:17.6

recovered these highly classified documents. And then, based on that timeline and the information

1:23.5

they had, they saw a grave need to go back in to do a search to get the rest of them.

1:30.0

They found that Trump had, in the DOJ's view, stolen material that involves secret,

1:34.9

clandestine human sources and human intelligence.

1:38.3

That's the kind of material that's not only supposed to stay on government property,

1:42.9

meaning you don't just get to walk out with it, even when

1:46.3

it is properly held by the government, it requires a higher layer of physical security that

1:51.0

most government buildings don't even have, a formally secure location to protect the human

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