The Mar-a-Lago Raid (w/ Mary McCord & Dana Milbank)
Skullduggery
Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti
4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
On a Monday morning in August, the United States Justice Department as well as the FBI, may have crossed the proverbial rubicon. For the first time in American history, agents showed up unannounced at the home of a former President of the United States in a court authorized search for classified documents that were removed from the White House. It was an extraordinary move by any measure based on a still sealed affidavit that lays out probable cause for why the documents at Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago contains evidence of a federal crime. What exactly are potential crimes at issue? And what to make of the furious reaction coming from leading Republicans in congress, vowing full-scale investigations of the Justice Department and the FBI if they, as many expect, take control of the House in Nov. Mary McCord, a career prosecutor and the former Chief of the Justice Department's National Security Division, as well as Dana Milbank, columnist for the Washington Post and author of new book The Destructionists: The 25-year crackup of the Republican Party, join to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | On a Monday morning in August, the United States Justice Department and the FBI may have crossed |
| 0:07.9 | the proverbial Rubicon. |
| 0:10.1 | For the first time in American history, agents showed up unannounced at the home of a former |
| 0:14.3 | president of the United States in a court authorized search for classified documents that were |
| 0:19.8 | removed from the White House. |
| 0:21.4 | It was an extraordinary move by any measure, based on a still sealed affidavit that lays |
| 0:26.4 | out probable cause for why the documents at Donald Trump's home in Mar-a-Lago contains |
| 0:31.7 | evidence of a federal crime. |
| 0:34.4 | What exactly are the potential crimes that issue? |
| 0:36.7 | And what to make of the furious reaction from leading Republicans in Congress, vowing full-scale |
| 0:41.9 | investigations of the Justice Department and the FBI, they, as many expect, take control |
| 0:47.5 | of the House in November. |
| 0:48.8 | We'll talk to Mary McCord, a career prosecutor in the former chief of the Justice Department's |
| 0:53.5 | National Security Division, and then we'll talk to Dana Milbank, columnist for the Washington |
| 0:57.8 | Post, and the author of the new book with Destructionists, the 25-year crack-up of the Republican |
| 1:03.0 | Party, on this episode of Skull Duggery. |
| 1:06.3 | I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United |
| 1:14.0 | States. |
| 1:15.0 | I will to the best of my building. |
| 1:17.0 | Reserve, protect and defend. |
| 1:18.8 | The Constitution of the United States. |
| 1:21.3 | So help me, God. |
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