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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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Two employees of former President Trump moved boxes of papers at Mar-a-Lago just a day before the Department of Justice went to the Florida resort to collect classified documents, according to The Washington Post. The newspaper also reports that investigators have evidence that Trump kept the classified documents in a visible place in his office and would show them to visitors. Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Elie Honig tells Anderson Cooper the key things prosecutors have to prove is “knowledge and intent” that the former President knew what he was doing with the documents.
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0:00.0 | Good evening. We have two big stories breaking tonight. New word that debt ceiling talks may |
0:05.2 | be, may be yielding progress. We're going to talk to Senator Bernie Sanders shortly. |
0:09.8 | But we begin tonight with new reporting that paints a remarkable picture of just how |
0:12.9 | much evidence federal investigators may have to show the former president obstructed justice |
0:16.8 | in the Mar-a-Lago documents case. It comes tonight from the Washington Post and the headline |
0:21.9 | is stunning. Trump workers moved Mar-a-Lago boxes a day before FBI came for documents. New |
0:28.1 | details, including alleged dress rehearsal for moving sensitive papers show a focus on |
0:32.4 | Donald Trump's instructions and intent. Now in a moment, we'll talk to legal analyst |
0:37.0 | Ali Honeig who joins us, but first post political investigations and enterprise reporter Josh |
0:42.0 | Dorsey, who shares a byline on the breaking story. Josh, can you just lay out the sequence |
0:48.3 | of events at Mar-a-Lago based on your reporting? Sure. So in May of 2022, federal prosecutors |
0:56.0 | subpoena former president Trump for all classified documents that he still has in his possession. |
1:01.7 | After that period of time, some of the boxes that are in the storage room are moved into |
1:06.7 | other parts of Mar-a-Lago. One day before federal prosecutors come to pick up the subpoena |
1:13.7 | material on June 3rd, the boxes are moved back into a storage room. On June 3rd, prosecutors |
1:22.8 | are taken to the storage room and said, this is where all the classified documents are held. |
1:28.2 | You cannot look through the boxes, but this is where they're all held. And Trump's a |
1:33.0 | Santa attestation that say, everything that is classified, we've been given back. Obviously, |
1:39.0 | we know now that not to be true. There were more than 100 classified documents, they were all |
1:43.5 | over parts of the residence. So what's interesting of prosecutors is why would the boxes moved |
1:49.7 | in and out of a storage room in that period of time? And why would they move back one day before |
1:55.5 | federal authorities came to search the area? And you're reporting to prosecutors, and I'm |
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