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Transcripts For CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240707

about in this fulton county, georgia, investigation into donald trump and others meddling, trying to overturn the 2020 election results in georgia. what do we know about senator graham s request? senator graham is arguing, jake, that under the speech or debate clause, this is the clause of the constitution that protects lawmakers from certain judicial proceedings simply because of their doing their legislative duties. he said these conversations he had with georgia lawmakers after the 2020 election were protected under speech or debate. obviously, fani willis, the district attorney in atlanta there, in fulton county, says there are important parts of these conversations that possibly go to crimes that she s investigating, and therefore, are not shielded by this clause of the constitution. you remember, of course, jake, that a judge had previously ordered this and has been asked to take a second look to see whether some parts of this need to be changed. thanks so muc ....

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Transcripts for CNN The Lead With Jake Tapper 20240604 21:03:00

So the court has to balance really an important public need to know what was behind this without breaking up the doj s investigation. i guess to some extent, i think the judge may defer to doj because it s not just a question of what but when, and certainly, this will be able to be released at some point, perhaps not tomorrow. these documents that trump had at mar-a-lago, we should note, they weren t just classified, and yes, there s a lot of overclassification by federal governments in general. they were top secret documents. some were labeled as sensitive compartmented information, special access programs material, which is one of the highest levels of classification you can have. give us an idea of what kinds of information are in documents labeled that. i know you don t know or couldn t say even if you did know what is in these documents, but what are we talking about? ....

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