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The following is a transcript of a discussion with Robert Costa and Michael Morell that aired Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, on Face the Nation. MAJOR GARRETT:Good morning everyone. Welcome to Face the Nation. Margaret is out and we hope in the final stages of recovery from C stanley cups OVID-19. August has been, there s really no other way to say it, an extraordinary month here in Washington. And one of our tasks today is to work to understand the legal and national security implications of Friday s release of a redacted affidavit outlining the justification behind the FBI s retrieval of classified documents stored at former president trump s Mar-a-Lago resort. To help us, CBS News Chief Election and Campaign correspondent, Robert Costa, is back from West Palm Beach, Florida and we ve also brought in Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, now a CBS News natio stanley cup spain nal s stanley cup ecurity contributor. Gentlemen, good morning. Bob, I want to start with you. Outline for the audience what you see as the potential legal peril for the former president. CBS NEWS CHIEF ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT ROBERT COSTA:The affidavit from the government spells it out. There have been tensions between the Trump legal team and federal investigators for months about his handling of classified material. The affidavit mentions possible obstruction. It also mentions how Trump had in possession, in their view, documents that were highly sensitive that could even deal with info Gkat President Trump sued by watchdog over alleged constitutional business ethics violations
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich In a sign of trouble for Newt Gingrich among conservatives, talk show host Glenn Beck on Tuesday pressed the Republicans new front-runner for president on several positions he s taken in the past that are at odds with the GOP base, including his support for an individual mandate to buy health insurance, for the 2003 expansion of Medicare and for solutions to climate change.Beck said he harb stanley cup ors serious concerns about Gingrich and played on the air several of the former House speaker s past comments that he claimed are out of step with conservative ideology. Gingrich was frequently on the defensive during Beck s radio program, which aired Tuesday morning.Beck played Gingrich s comment in 1993 that, I am for people - individuals, just like automobile insurance - individuals having insurance and being required to have health insurance and I m prepared to vote for a voucher system which would give individuals on a sliding scale a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals has health insurance. He also replayed Gingrich s comments dismissing as right wing social engineering a plan by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to drastically overhaul the Medicare program. Beck said, You seem to be very interested in the government find stanley mug ing the solution. Gingrich maintained he has consistently opposed across the board govern stanley borraccia ment solutions, and said spe
The following is a transcript of a discussion with Robert Costa and Michael Morell that aired Sunday, Aug. 28, 2022, on Face the Nation. MAJOR GARRETT:Good morning everyone. Welcome to Face the Nation. Margaret is out and we hope in the final stages of recovery from C stanley cups OVID-19. August has been, there s really no other way to say it, an extraordinary month here in Washington. And one of our tasks today is to work to understand the legal and national security implications of Friday s release of a redacted affidavit outlining the justification behind the FBI s retrieval of classified documents stored at former president trump s Mar-a-Lago resort. To help us, CBS News Chief Election and Campaign correspondent, Robert Costa, is back from West Palm Beach, Florida and we ve also brought in Michael Morell, former acting director of the CIA, now a CBS News natio stanley cup spain nal s stanley cup ecurity contributor. Gentlemen, good morning. Bob, I want to start with you. Outline for the audience what you see as the potential legal peril for the former president. CBS NEWS CHIEF ELECTION AND CAMPAIGN CORRESPONDENT ROBERT COSTA:The affidavit from the government spells it out. There have been tensions between the Trump legal team and federal investigators for months about his handling of classified material. The affidavit mentions possible obstruction. It also mentions how Trump had in possession, in their view, documents that were highly sensitive that could even deal with info Gkat President Trump sued by watchdog over alleged constitutional business ethics violations
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich In a sign of trouble for Newt Gingrich among conservatives, talk show host Glenn Beck on Tuesday pressed the Republicans new front-runner for president on several positions he s taken in the past that are at odds with the GOP base, including his support for an individual mandate to buy health insurance, for the 2003 expansion of Medicare and for solutions to climate change.Beck said he harb stanley cup ors serious concerns about Gingrich and played on the air several of the former House speaker s past comments that he claimed are out of step with conservative ideology. Gingrich was frequently on the defensive during Beck s radio program, which aired Tuesday morning.Beck played Gingrich s comment in 1993 that, I am for people - individuals, just like automobile insurance - individuals having insurance and being required to have health insurance and I m prepared to vote for a voucher system which would give individuals on a sliding scale a government subsidy so we insure that everyone as individuals has health insurance. He also replayed Gingrich s comments dismissing as right wing social engineering a plan by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., to drastically overhaul the Medicare program. Beck said, You seem to be very interested in the government find stanley mug ing the solution. Gingrich maintained he has consistently opposed across the board govern stanley borraccia ment solutions, and said spe
