heirson civilian casualties men, women and children hurt and killed in recent days. along the frontline itself it is tough. that chairman of the joint chief of staff general milly s latest battsessment the now summer kowcter observancive of ukraine against russia is deliberate, steady but difficult slow and bloody and that was the period ukraine was hoping to take advantage of distractions in the regime of russian president putin following last week s failed cue. as member of parliament leslie noted to us that was short-lived. and then the horrors the russian attack went on. take a listen. with the tactics of destroying everything that is ukrainian about ukraine it attacks form of a young child or elderly person or of a military according to the lawmaker, what does ukraine need to fend off this foe more western aid, and quicker. especially as new reports
stonewalling the archives, he is showing off to a group, mark meadows, ghost rider, his former chief of staff and he s showing off to them a battle plan for attacking iran. why is he doing that? because he wants to prove to them, hey, general milly, he s going around saying that i m crazy, that i want to attack iran. let me show you, he s the crazy one and i ve got it in a highly secret and by the way, i could have declassified it, but i can t anymore. this was caught on tape. this was part of the indictment and we know that donald trump knew that he had classified material and he knew as a former president that he couldn t declassify it and he was engaged in conspiracy from getting the government it has to protect. you are the former director of the nixon library. what is the parallel here with richard nixon? is there one? this is a reminder that we ve had corrupt presidents before, but there was a red line and
oh, i could have declassified it, i didn t, ha, ha, ha. this is serious. it s a serious document. and he also talks about why. you get some motive when he says i totally won my case with this document because general milly was saying actually it was trump who wanted to attack iran and i was trying to stop him. and this document trump says this proves he was wrong and i won my case. and it goes back to why is he doing this. and you think it s just petty, it s just him trying to settle scores with enemies. and it just comes across so clearly in that transcript of the indictment. what s different as well is all insider testimony. andrew and i were looking at the bread crumbs and clues leading to this. we knew trump had lost lawyers. he lost two more today. we knew the new york times busted out stories one of the
according to whatever, on today, and cnn and other news outlets. and this could very much be another case of the former president being petty and wanting to suggest to these writers i ve got something that would disprove a general milly but i can t share it because it s classified. now, general milly knows and probably jack smith knows whether a real document exists. if a real document exists, that certainly puts him in additional legal jeopardy in terms of his criminal culpability for mishandling classified documents. but even if the document doesn t exist, even if he was making it up, it still shows his intent and his knowledge that he had classified information and he wasn t supposed to and that he knows that you can t share classified information with other people. yeah. and certainly we have no idea whether it s a blank document or an actual piece of paper trump is using as a prop. but let s suspend our concerns for a moment and just walk with me through the time line and how
suggested he had no knowledge that classified information was taken from the white house. it also shows he knows he can t share classified information. it shows according to the reporting that i have this information about general milly s plans to attack iran, and i sure wish i could show it to you, but i can t do that because it s classified. now, i ll note i think that s a decent possibility that the former president was simply making up that he had classified information written by general milly because the reporting also indicates he was pretty mad at general milly. he had this interview at bedminster with these writers who were working on mark meadows book, very shortly after news reporting had come out that general milly in fact had tried to convince trump not to do some sort of attack on iran, and he was pretty aggravated about that reporting