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tv   Don Lemon Tonight  CNN  August 22, 2022 7:00pm-8:00pm PDT

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hey, thanks for watching everyone, i will be back tomorrow night, don lemon tonight starts right now with, of course, don lemon. hey, don lemon. >> hey. [laughs] gotcha. >> jinxed, you owe me coke, coca-cola, very specific. [laughs] >> wait a minute, i'm looking at both of us, and looking at different monitors, you are way less -- >> do you see my upper -- >> we both have a tan. yours is fresher than mine. >> well, i mean, i woke up like this. were you a makeup? was there are bronze or used? i was in puerto rico. >> good for you.
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>> where were you? out and about, where you go? whatever it is you do? >> don't do this to me. . >> no, don't, let's not compare vacations. because america, i guarantee you don lemon just went. [laughs] so that's okay, that's fine. >> at this, point i was out of the country. i'm glad you had a great, time you look great, your tan is great, you look relaxed. great job as usual, i will see you tomorrow, laura coates. by, laura coates. >> by, don! >> [laughs] oh boy, it is monday everyone. how are you doing? this is don lemon tonight. we have a cnn exclusive, sources are telling cnn that the justice department is issuing a new grand jury subpoena to the national archives for more documents as part of the january 6th investigation. now, let us pause there. okay? to give you some perspective, that is also part of what we do. this former president has managed to launch not one but she's two in justice department
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investigations that involve the national archives. on into january 6th, one with the subpoena today. the latest sign of the doj is broadening its destination into the potential role that then white house staff may have played in the lead up to the attack on the capitol. and another investigation into the removal of classified documents to the former presidents private beach and golf club. yes, there is news on that tonight to. sources are telling the new york times that investigators are seeking additional surveillance photos from mar-a-lago as they investigate how classified documents were handled by the former president and his staff. now, some footage reportedly showing people moving boxes in and out, in some cases appearing to change the containers of some documents that they were held in. more on that in just a moment. so standby for that. that, as a trump legal team is asking for a special master, a third party attorney to go through mar-a-lago evidence and
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determine if there are private documents that should be returned. but that is not all. they also want the judge to pause the investigation until the special master review is done. for those of you who have been around for a long time, who didn't just fall off the term it truck, that is right of the trump playbook. delay, delay, delay. file a lawsuit, demotions. then you know, that is how it goes. it has been two weeks since the search, and they are only calling for a special master now? why? the former presidents legal team also confirming that he tried to pass a message to the attorney general a few days later, warning people across the country, we are not angry about the search, we are angry about, i should say, we are angry about the search, going on to say, quote, whatever i can do to help take the heat down, bring down the pressure, bring the pressure down. just let us know. which, you know let's face it, they could've done all of that on his own.
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without sending a message to merrick garland. as we are just days away from the deadline for the doj to explain everything in the search warrant affidavit that they say needs to be kept secret. the excuses, while they just keep whirling along. >> what use could a former president have four classified or top secret information once he has left office? why bring it home with him? >> well, i don't know, you would have to ask him. but certainly we all know that every former president has access to their documents. it is how they write their memories. >> i still haven't seen any evidence that trump was even asked to give these documents back. the government services administration is responsible for tackling and pardoning those documents. you bring up a great point they were the ones that moved the documents to mar-a-lago. >> did he say he hasn't seen any evidence that they asked for documents back? what? it was june, a search that was
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just completely false. that one got past me. maybe he was writing his memoirs. right. no, wait, i never even asked him for the documents. no way, it was the guys who packed the boxes. look, the brouhaha from trump allies has showed you what a bind the judge in the doj are in. more information they put out there, the louder the calls for more. let's put out -- deputy director andrew mackay. former watergate prosecutor nick akerman. thank you so much. i just saw that, he has never, he didn't see any evidence that he was asked for the documents? andrew, i mean, in january of 2022, after months of discussion, -- retrieves 15 boxes. february of 2022 february 18th 2022. april and may of 2022. may of 2012. june of 2012. all of these about documents, him being asked, the lawyer saying that they were no more documents. returning documents and he
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didn't see any evidence, that was odd? anyway, good evening. [laughs] >> good evening. >> andrew i mean, am i off on that. >> know don, you are absolutely right. i don't know what mr. crenshaw is or is not looking at. but there is a mountain of evidence of repeated requests for the documents here. it started, as you mentioned with the national archives, they spent seven months requesting the documents back. eventually they got back about a third, apparently, of what was their, in january, the justice department enters the scene, they convene a grand jury. subpoenas are issued, so i would count that as requests for documents as well. there is, of course, the june meeting where the head of counter-intelligence section of the department of justice goes to mar-a-lago with agents. they see documents, they take some documents with them that day. they follow it up with letters and an additional subpoena for suppression violence video. so yeah, lots of requests by the government for documents here. i would add, don, at any point in this process prior to the
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search warrant, had the folks at mar-a-lago simply given back everything they had, it is my strong suspicion that the government would have collected their documents and gone away. the whole thing would have essentially gone away. but it seems to be the indications that there was resistance and possibly folks weren't playing straight with them from mar-a-lago in terms of their requests that lit a fire in the justice department in pursuit of a search warrant. >> yeah, it's odd. meaning that somebody -- nick, the new york times reporting that investigators are seeking additional surveillance footage from mar-a-lago. including the weeks leading up to the august 8th search. what does it mean that authorities are still scrutinizing how these documents were handled? >> well, i think it is all part of this espionage investigation. they want to know who had access to them? who actually saw these
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documents? why were documents being taken in and out of this room? was it coinciding with requests that were made by the department of justice? now, i am sure that all of these documents are also being fingerprinted right now. the department of justice wants to know who handled these documents. it is all part of a bigger investigation in terms of what happened and who had access to these documents. >> so there are, i shouldn't say others, because we don't know exactly who was a target, i mean, there has been lots of speculation, you know, our legal analysts have said they believe it is. but do you think that more people could have some sort of exposure for potential aiding and abetting or helping, the helping of this potential crime? nick? >> oh, absolutely, because there was so many people involved there. there were people who brought the documents there, people who have to know they were there. they were are also certainly people that basically snitched on trump.
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i'm sure some of these people are listed in that affidavit describing what documents are there and what they did to try and keep the doj away from these documents. >> andrew mackay, the times also reports how mar-a-lago had surveillance footage going back 60 days for some areas of the property. people were showing boxes in and out, in some places appearing to change containers. some documents were held in. when you hear how these government documents were being handled, how does that sound to you? >> well, it sounds like there was more activity around the documents, and people had access to the documents. people moving documents. then what was promptly represented to the department of justice at that june meeting. that likely caused great concern on the part of the investigators. you have to remember, don, this is essentially like any investigation in which you would access video surveillance. so let's say you had somebody
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who attacked somebody on the street in new york, it happened right in front of a story that had video surveillance on the sidewalk. you would, of course, see the action happen. but then, what you would do you look at the video surveillance on either side of the story. you would up the block in each direction, and around the corner to find well, where did that attacker come from? was he with someone else? did he have anything else in his hand as he was approaching the scene? it's the same thing here. if they have video surveillance from outside the room where the documents were being stored, then you have activity coming in and out of this room that you are concerned about, you might want to see where those people who were captured on that surveillance camera went after they left that area, so that is my suspicion of what they may be looking for here. i want to ask you about this new thing, nick, about donald trump's legal team asking for a federal judge to appoint a special master to go through the mar-a-lago evidence. we also want the judge to pause investigators work related to the evidence in till the review
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was done. is there merit to this? >> no. there is no merit to any of this. i mean, if you compare this to what's happening with trump's two former attorney. michael cohen and rudy giuliani. both of those situations, search warrants were served on both of those people. lots of documents, lots of that was taken. and they are both lawyers who had a real privilege. i made, they had arguments of privilege over these documents. so it made sense in those cases to appoint a special master. here, trump has no privilege. even though his document that he filed today claims they are trying to protect executive privilege, that they have to protect conversations between trump and his people who worked with him. none of that makes any sense. he's already been there, he's done it, and he's lost. in front of the supreme court. 8 to 1. on that issue. there is no executive privilege that belongs to him. it belongs to the executive,
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the current executive, and this entire brief, quite frankly. looks like it was written by negligence or an insurance lawyer. because they just don't understand the privilege issues here. his trump really had an issue with attorney-client privilege, if he was concerned that something in there was a communication between him and one of his attorneys. he would've put in a declaration to that effect. he would've supported that memo with some kind of real evidence. but there is none. i mean, i just don't see the judge ordering that this investigation stop or that there be a special mastery report. >> all right, nick andrew thank you for starting us off. i appreciate it, see you soon. >> is this all about a legal filing or a pr offensive and who is it really aimed at?
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two weeks after fbi agent search the former president's home, has all the change the political landscape? so join me now, cnn senior political correspondent and putt and tara palmieri. cnn's political commentators, alyssa farah griffin and alice. >> hello, good to see all of you. >> i'll start with you tara. trump's allies would like to see american people see this investigation is a political hit job. now, two weeks after that search. you heard what nick akerman said that this was not a thing. you think this is all about the court of public opinion? >> i think. so they want to sow seeds of doubt in with the prosecutors are doing it with the department of justice is doing. they have to fight back. this is trump's tactics. delay, attack the messengers, tried to suggest that there are some sort of bias, there's a political witch hunt. all these sorts of tactics just delayed inevitable. but a lot of people are saying prosecutors with bright legal
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minds are saying this probably from going to hold up. i did think was interesting that ron desantis who may end up being a political rival of trump in 2024 presidential matchup, he said on fox news, stop calling at a rate. it was a perfectly legal seizure. i think we are seeing is the gop, as we get more information about how many documents they were looking for. over 300 as a new york times reported. how many once they went through trying to get these documents. and the long process that it may have been a legitimate investigation by the department of justice. >> that's why also plummets when i heard, -- gosh what was his name? anyway, who said it was them complying as best they could. he had seen no evidence that they had asked for a print job. and it started in january of 2022. all of this, this list i have here. >> all the times -- all the interactions. so what are they talking about?
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>> this is more direct. >> right. he is using this is a tactic to flood the zone. dominate the narrative. and also, he is already fundraising off of this request here. he has masterfully, i guess that's a word for it, been able to really dictate the narrative. because he was out the right out the gate. pre-trying himself as a victim. here's the key? is that the truth will come out in the end. and that will be the day that i don't think he will be the victim. >> one of the things his attorney said in this request for a special master. she said as we are talking to the people, and the mood of the people in this country is angry, . well, i talk with several republican congress members and the general notion was, look, you want to talk about the mood of the country? a third of the people are met. a third of the people are set. and a third of the people are glad. but 100% of the people want more information and we just need to sit back and wait that comes out. >> that is the key. what is so bizarre but all this
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and frankly it speaks to don trump staying power within the gop, unfortunately. how many affected republicans came out immediately once this raid took place and said, you know, it is an awful and we need to defund the fbi. we are criticizing without having the facts. by the way, we still don't have the facts. the gang is still requesting to see what the classified documents actually work. but when donald trump does masterfully, if he wins the pr game. so here we are, we're not even talking about what might be in these documents. we're kind of lowering the bar to say, well maybe they're not that classified, maybe they're not nuclear secrets. when an average government official, if they walked out of the government building with a top secret document, they lined up in prison. that was my point, when i got back from vacation last week. people were saying, it's got to be something really. that it's got to be this. the fact of the matter is that it was a classified document. it was taken from the white house. it should have gone to the national archives rules were broken whether it is, i doubt that trump did not pack it
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himself. but trump is responsible, the buck stops with him. every other president before him had follow the rules, went to the national archives, they wanted something, someone went through to make sure. right? that it was okay. >> just very frankly, i think on the classified issue a lot of times the average person who is not trained in handling state secrets and national security secrets, looking at a document they may not understand why it is sensitive. it may not seem like something significant but. it could be the sources and methods behind it. it could be that it signals intelligence. if it shows that marking, it means we know that we are listening to this adversary. there is a lot of very specific things about why we can't allow these things to be in the public space. they can't just be sitting at a country club in florida. >> a lot of this is identifying people who are trying to be controversial in the work they are doing. -- >> i want to get to -- >> i unclassified all of these documents as they left the white house and before they
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came to me. while our colleague has talked to nearly 20 people with knowledge of whether or not that happened and they say it did not happen. >> no evidence that it happened, and also i spoke to a professor who was expert on this, and also a former bush white house official who said that that is not a thing that's not how you classified documents. i think this is the most important news to come out. because usually we say it is the economy, we have heard this. everyone is worried about pocketbook issues, is a new nbc poll. finds that threats to democracy ranked as the most important issue for voters, even above cost of living. it is just one poll. but do you think that pours cold water on this idea that people don't care about what happened on january 6th? they don't care about the efforts to, you know, undermine our democracy. it really shows, i think, that this is a huge concern. >> i think the january six committee and the hearings have really elevated the story about defending democracy. maybe it wasn't top of mind for
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people. but after seeing these hearings, after, you know, hearing the stories of people, about how they were real attempts to try to take over the government or not hand over the power. i think it's sort of made people think for a second, wow, this wasn't just a few angry tweets. this was a coordinated effort. i think, if anything, all that means to me is that actually the january 6th hearings are working. >> yeah, they are breaking through. you can avoid the threats to democracy. >> you think it's breaking through? >> i think it is breaking through. i will say i still think kitchen table issues are gonna be more significant than this poll shows. but within the day, 60% of republicans believe the election was stolen. every american going around having conversations with their friends is having conversations about, was the election legitimate? that is not normal. that is something we did a previous -- >> when he put this a balance, i want to respond to it. travelers have been blasting the investigators as you know, right, investigate the investigators. that same poll finds that 57% of voters say that investigations into trump should continue. in a country this polarized that is a surprisingly -- >> i'm gonna be the numbers
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kick here and say that if you look at that 47 and you look at the cross tabs, the breakdown of that, look, we all know this has been a war shark test. republicans who support him are fully in sync with him on thinking. think this is wrong. the democrats think this is the right way to go. of that 57%, the party ideology. nearly 90% of democrats say that this investigation should continue. about 20% of republicans. but the key moving forward, to 2024, 61% of independents support this moving forward. that is the number that should be extremely disturbing. because those are the people that are wanting to see, where is this gonna go? many of them want to see this continue. >> there is some stone to talk to you, about something island over the weekend. >> of. >> someone was watching our conversation last week. >> oh. >> whether he is going to run or not? that and more, everyone stick around. >> a little teaser. [laughs] >> the midterms, we'll talk
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so, the political landscape keep shifting ahead of the november midterms. saying this today about the party chances of reaching the senate. >> senate races are statewide. they are just different in nature from individual congressional districts. 20 of my members of, it only 14 of them regrets, so that is to their advantage. many of these states are purple states. could go either way. i think this is going to be a
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really close race. >> okay, so back with me, tara, alyssa, analysis. okay. alice. last week, mitch mcconnell was talking about candid equality in this polling that shows that masters, walker, was, and johnson, are all in in the red on favorable take. i was like, wait a minute, the right candidates. so it's up in the air. now they should be a good year for republicans but what happened? >> donald trump happened. of those people you just showed were backed by donald trump, supported donald trump, some of them are election deniers. that is not sitting well -- >> the gop put themselves in this position by going all in? >> he -- like it or not, he is the titular head of the republican party. he is the one that can galvanize voters for the base in the primary. he can raise money. the problem is, that does not translate well in a general
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election. i wish that would've been thought about more the fronted, but what is harming these people that you put up, they were backed by trump, and many of them are supporters of the election denials, we have herschel walker who has some personal issues. we have lost some residency issues. so these are things that don't have to answer to. again, i go back to when you're at the party and you're looking at who's the best candidate. you can't just get to the primary. light it have to get all the way to regional. >> you have said this we are plate waiting for the returns to commit. you said the same thing. this is about qualified candidates and they want to hold the senate right? even a congressman who these candidates are just not qualified and not good candidates. >> this is why we saw the democrats contributing money to some of these candidates. because they knew they were the weaker candidate. they wanted them to be the nominee for the gop because they knew they would be easier to beat in a polling reflects that. >> on the social media platform trump is calling mitch mcconnell a broken down hat for
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his comment about the doors senate candidates. i mean they've gone through this before. but what happens if these candidates lose? >> listen, mcconnell's absolutely right the candidates matter. and these are not a strong roster candidates of who you mentioned with the exception of ron johnson are first-time officeholders running statewide. i also know j.d. vance in very red ohio is doing significantly worse than he should be to tim ryan, a popular moderate democrat. listen you can't nominate people based on how much they appeal to the base. you're gonna have to see how they are fair and the general election. mark my words is this beginning as previously criticize mitch mcconnell now want the senate leadership fund and want the political arm to bail them out in those lagging in the polls. so mcconnell's gonna come up fine with this. there's me no ditching mitch. we know this is gonna be the language of trump attacking him.
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he dogmatism they win. when in reality, it is mcconnell's political capital. >> what happens if they don't win? kenny escape blame for now are getting the chamber? >> that's a good question. who will they blame? will they blame donald trump who basically chose these primary candidates who all vowed that they will not vote for mitch milford leadership? or are they all going to blame the national republican senatorial committee for not doing enough candidate recruitment. these people are all first timers. untested, unvetted, backed by trump. mcconnell couldn't say anything because, in fact, you are headed by mcconnell that helps you with the gop primary. and they all came out and said, we don't care about mitch mcconnell. we're not gonna vote for him. we will see what happens when they actually get into the senate and they're gonna have to answer to the constituents. >> trump lost georgia republicans in the senate right off the bat. he mentioned point blame everyone else for it. he contends behind of tough on these things. >> i wanna ask, you this msnbc
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poll finds that democrats are -- heading into the midterms. that is another problem for republicans, at least in the statewide races. did that change when it came to roe v. wade? >> absolutely. it's a dobbs decision that i believe has changed. that from my experience talking to republican strategists, as well, who are working on major campaigns. some of which are up in the senate races. they don't know how to deal with abortion issue. they just don't. >> it's so much difficult when you talk about the hypothetical of if you're pro-life, or roe v. wade, and now slavs ellen, now it's a complete different ballpark. i've heard the same thing from republicans. >> i wanna get this. in this atlanta journal saying that something herschel walker said about the new climate change. it says they continue to try to fool you that they are helping you out. but they are not. because a lot of money is going to trees. then we have enough trees
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around here? >> let me just say this. i'm a georgia bulldog. i love herschel walker. i will give him the benefit of the doubt. he was specifically referring to the 1.5 billion dollar urban forestry provision of this act. he reiterated that on twitter. said, yes, i said what i said. 1.5 billion for trees. and is coming out of the pockets of the taxpayer. so it is not that it was his solution to the climate change. >> honestly it wasn't his biggest gaffe. >> it was one in a series of gaffes. >> we'll hear from sources, this one pair for my people is that he wasn't going to run. and that mar-a-lago changed all of that. >> she was all going to run so long as the legal walsh kept closing in. i think mar-a-lago was the most significant thing that could've happened to make him just become indignant.
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>> and he runs is my prediction. >> look at the voters. the voters are at the point where they were running from not to run. republican voters are right to put him in the rearview mirror. and then mar-a-lago happened. and then the base jump back on board with him. >> i've heard actually the trump feels more confident that they can clear the republican field. and that's another reason why they want to run. they don't think he has a challenge when they see the entire party to extend behind. saying this is the biggest political witch hunt of all-time. finally speaking his language in this court. and he thinks that he will have -- >> i would note, rhonda status is on aaron ohio. i'm doing a great job. >> this is my prediction. thank you all, i appreciate. it officers removed from duty after a violent arrest is caught on camera we will talk about that next.
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okay so this video is disturbing. it is disturbing video and it led to three arkansas police officers being removed from duty. all to be facing state and federal investigations. after at least two of them were caught on camera punching and being a suspect during an arrest this weekend. at one point the video shows that one of the officers appearing to lift the suspect's head and then slammed into the pavement. so before we played there's a reminder that this video is graphic and it's hard to watch. >> this is bad. we got to get out of here.
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[inaudible] >> okay let's bring in our cnn law enforcement analysts. hey mike, how are you? >> good. how are you doing down? >> i'm okay. that is disturbing to watch. let's talk about what is procedure. officials say the suspect officials a gas nation clerk in the neighboring town and said he was initially cooperate then he tried to attack officers. beginning to sound the video justified based on the information we have so far and your years as an officer? >> no. >> the short answer is absolutely not. i mean i think it is important that we allow the investigation to play out before we start
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condemning police officers. however, based on the video and then the charges that have been brought, i can't see any way that you can justify those officers actions. >> even with -- i think you're right. the investigation should play out. but it is a storm took this video. even with his level of, quote unquote, noncompliant. and i cannot there i just solve it on video. you still think that that was justifiable? >> noncompliance probably is better grammar. >> correct. so use of force policy berries from department to department. there is no universal standard in the united states. although i believe there should be. but it is all predicated on the idea that a law enforcement officer can use the minimal amount of force necessary to affect compliance. and that is based off of the suspect or in this case, the defendants actions. however, that's not like a
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carte blanche check to continue to use force each time and officer uses force, whatever that force may be, whether it's physical, weathers verbal. they have to reassess and decide whether there is an escalation needed in their force. or whether they need to de-escalate their force. based off the suspect's actions. what you saw there was more like a brawl room brawl then it did an officer using a very specific, -- correct. >> the arkansas governor, asia hutchinson, just broke out on cnn. listen to this. >> it still concerns me that a law enforcement officer with proper training has to be able to control the circumstances and that was not something that,
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whenever i talked or training officials, is not consistent with that. that was, in my judgment, excessive. let's wait for the investigation to be completed. >> listen, he is think similar to what you are saying. he wants investigation be completed. but the officers have been removed from duty. for now. what consequences should they face for not following their training. >> well i mean if they did violate department protocols. i mean, there is a discipline system that is in place to address that. and if the state or federal authorities decide that their actions were criminal in nature that they exceeded the scope of what is appropriate by law enforcement officer then they should be charged. criminally. the one thing that the governor said that to take issue with, and i've talked about before is when he said that this was
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outside the scope of normal based on the training protocols that are put in place. i was a cop for 20 years. and i will tell you right now, that in training that is provided to officers when it comes to use of force is grossly inadequate. when i trained, if you want to call that efforts of previously as familiarization. use of force training, took place by annually. as far as qualifying with the pistol. when it came to tactics that took place every other year and we spent about four hours on the type of physical tactics that would be applied in this type of situation. which to me is, i mean, nothing short of grossly inadequate. and a lot of ways i feel like we are sending these officers up for failure. >> i think that is a good point. you're criticizing a buddy
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actor trying to help the officers so that they don't end up in situations like this. so the people they serve don't end up in situations like this. >> correct. >> there is a moment, let's talk more about this video. it is a moment in the video, mike, where it seems that one officer points in the direction that someone was taking the video. the clip and shortly after us we don't know just how aggressive they are in the moments after. but there were clearly witnesses there. one column to get them and medicine. should that have changed the officer's behavior? >> i mean, one would think that when they realize they were being recorded that they would rethink their tactics. but, you know, again, having been caught up in situations like this myself in the heat of the moment. you know you just continue to go about your business. almost as if you were not being recorded. >> michael fanone, thank you
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to public health, lies here in the united states and around the world have been saved. and he leaves his position in the u.s. government as he leaves his position in the u.s. government i know the american people and the entire world will continue to benefit from doctor fauci's expertise and whatever he does. but not everyone is bracing. when doctor fauci. house republican leader, kevin mccarthy, have been criticizing today. accusing fauci of losing the trust of americans during the covid pandemic. and of keeping schools and businesses closed for too long. republicans bound to investigate him if they retake congress. >> up next, trump's legal team filing a new lawsuit today over the fbi search of mar-a-lago. stay with us. welcome to thursday night football, only on prime video.
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new details coming intended but the investigation to the former
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president's handling of classified documents. sources tell the new york times investigators want more surveillance footage from mar-a-lago and it comes to the former president takes his first former legal action after fbi agents searched his home. and a cnn exclusive on another front, sources tell cnn that the justice department is issuing a new grand jury subpoena of the national archives for more documents as part of the january six investigation. let's discuss now. cnn senior justice correspondent, evan perez is here, and former federal prosecutor kim whaley. he joins us as well. doctor of how to think like a lawyer. and the former chief of counterespionage. peter strzok. the author of, compromised, counterintelligence and the threat of donald j trump. good evening. happy to have you all on. thanks for joining. we are getting these new details tonight by investigators looking for more material at mar-a-lago. but do you know? >> hold on, this is reporting from the new york times.
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but if you remember the prosecutors here that basket had asked for and received. surveillance page from mar-a-lago it appears that they want some more and according to the times there was a period for about 60 days that investigators had a review and they saw some things on their. that race i'm concerned. and of course, this is something that explains perhaps why after that june meeting where they came away with classified documents they somehow decide that there was more information there and they were concerned about. and that led to this astounding move by the fbi justice department. to conduct a search of the former president's home in mar-a-lago. >> the new york times is reporting some surveillance footage from mar-a-lago shows people moving boxes and wait to change containers. some documents were held there. what is your read on the
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situation? how will investigators get to the bottom of this? >> they got a lot of work ahead of them. clearly there are a number of things that the new york times are reporting. some are indicated there some concern between the first to get cctv coverage that there is something that occurred in later days that made them think that there might be relevant information. the immediate concern that i would have is, of course, were people taking things in or out. where they either tried to hide them or move them somewhere else? again, that is in the context of a much broader counter intelligence concern of just who had access. i mean, clearly the former president trump did. but any number of other people potentially including those mike the foreign intelligence services. mike also have. that is something investigators need to look at. so, there are lot of questions, there's an investigator, and this new information makes me think that there is a lot more investigation ahead. and all of it is really concerning. >> i've been, you wrote the story tonight about a new doj subpoena. what is the latest?

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