ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, where is the document? exclusive new cnn reporting that the former president s attorneys were unable to find the classified document he s reportedly telling people he had. we also have new reporting about what sparked investigators to go after him in the first place. also tonight, president biden speaking to the nation, spreading the credit for the budget deal, praising republicans and democrats for coming together to get things done. and later we take you inside ukraine s effort to build and acquire 200,000 drones this year, and what kind of impact they may have in the fight against russia. we begin tonight with new cnn exclusive reporting on the classified document the former president claimed to have. prosecutors issued a subpoena related to it, but his lawyers told authorities they were unable to find the actual document. evan perez joins us with the latest. what s going on here? they literally cannot find this thing? repor
i thought it was really interesting that the day that he tripped over a sandbag and fell, he kept the american economy from falling into a great big and disastrous hole, which seems more important to me. but the fact is that age is going to continue to be an issue for him. and so he tells people, watch me. and i think the reason he s speaking to the nation tonight is he wants people to focus on the substantive things that he s doing and not on things like the trip at the air force academy. how much faith do you put in polls that show a close race between president biden and former president trump this far out from a presidential election. as you said, there s so many things that can happen between now and then. i don t put all that much stock in those polls other than to say that there is sort of a floor beyond which both candidates will not fall. and so you re going to have a close race. one interesting number to watch
purposes, but you re rushing to avoid the political implications of having this having an indictment issued during an election season. and of having a trial too late next year. you want to have a trial next summer or earlier next year, you ve got to bring this case sooner rather than later. and you want to bring these charges before the campaign really gets underway because that way you insulate yourself from the charge that you re doing it for political purposes. but i think when this indictment comes out, it s going to be a blockbuster because given that what we know, it s an open and shut case many times over. and i m sure it s going to be a very, very interesting indictment to read. george conway, william cohen, i appreciate it. thank you both. coming up next, you think the primaries are just days away by how the former president and ron desantis have been going at each other. what it says about the race ahead. plus president biden addressing the nation tonight with the deb
underlining what happened today and what happened overnight, that he can jolt those numbers a little bit, but, again, we are sitting here in june of 2023, and we re talking about an election that s going to happen in november of 2024. so, you know, i think subsequent events will determine whether, in fact, he can move those numbers. also just events like what happened yesterday, the fall at the air force academy. there s rightly or wrongly a lot of attention on it. if you were advising president biden right now, how do you think he should approach the upcoming race? well, look, i think that you can t change your age. so, those kinds of incidents are going to get outsized attention. i thought it was really interesting that the day that he tripped over a sandbag and fell, he kept the american economy from falling into a great big and disastrous hole, which seems
legislation to avert a government default, president biden didn t hide who he is or what he believes, nor did he shy away from criticizing a number of republican priorities. that said, he was also quick to praise both sides involving the budget talks and the compromise they reached. i want to commend speaker mccarthy. you know, he and i and our teams, we were able to get along and get things done, were straightforward with one another, completely honest with one another, and respectful with one another. both sides operated in good faith. both sides kept their word. and i want to commend other congressional leaders. house minority leader jeffreys, senate majority leader schumer, senate minority leader mcconnell. they acted responsibly and put the good of the country ahead of politics. in a moment, david axelrod, who witnessed many important moments in the obama/biden white house reflects. phil mattingly joins us now.