Warrant In Mar-a-Lago Search Unsealed
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 12 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The warrant allowing the FBI to search the Florida home of former president Donald Trump, Mar-a-Lago, was unsealed Friday, providing some detail into what items and documents were taken by law enforcement. Among the documents seized include ones with various levels of security classification, along with handwritten notes & other, miscellaneous boxes.
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| 0:52.0 | It's really not fair during Friday news dumps that we can't have a Chaco Taco and someone else is, but I'm glad he's enjoying it. |
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| 1:04.0 | We all scream for ice cream. Okay. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm Miles Parks, I cover voting. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Carrie Johnson, I cover the Justice Department. |
| 1:13.0 | And I'm Domenico Montenarro, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent. |
| 1:16.0 | We're learning more about the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, what was taken and what the government was looking for. |
| 1:22.0 | Attorney General Merrick Garland said yesterday he wanted to make the search warrant used for that search public. |
| 1:28.0 | And former President Trump's legal team did not object to that request, so just a little while ago, this seven-page document was made public. |
| 1:34.0 | Carrie, let's just start with you. What's in this document? |
| 1:38.0 | Sure, it's the judges' permission to give the FBI the ability to search Mar-a-Lago. |
| 1:45.0 | The areas that were okay for the search included in office, described as the 45 office. |
| 1:51.0 | Of course, Trump was the 45th president of the U.S. |
| 1:54.0 | Storage rooms and other rooms are areas within the resort, but not the guest rooms in the hotel or areas where the Mar-a-Lago club members might be hanging out. |
| 2:03.0 | So the judge gave the all clear for that. |
| 2:06.0 | And then also the Justice Department laid out in some general terms the kinds of legal violations it was looking for. |
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