vlad and so many of the people that we have met here on this visit and of course that we ve talked to over the past 16 months, they all have that incredible, powerful reservoir of strength. thanks so much for joining us. it s time now for ac 360. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. we have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government s case against donald trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he s showing a highly classified document on u.s. war plans against iran, with people not clear to know it exists, let alone what s in it. you will hear what jurors will hear one day. the recording was made two summers ago in bedminster new jersey. you will clearly hear the former president, as he is speaking to several people. they include a writer working on mark meadows memoir, the publisher, and two of trump s staff members. the president was aware he was being recorded. it is the first time it is being played
them officially under the sway of the russian military. and that was something that, you know, yevgeny prigozhin just didn t like. following that, it was on friday night. there was an attack prigozhin said, on one of the camps of wagner, which he said several of his fighters were killed. and that really sort of pushed the situation to this crisis point. matthew chance in moscow. i appreciate it. new yorker editor david rennic joins us now. david, i don t even know where to begin with you. first of all, what did you make of the speech from vladimir putin today? well, he s incensed. he s furious. he s been unmasked like the wizard of oz when the curtain is stripped back. you know, for years, we ve been talking about or certain people have been talking about vladimir putin as the grand chess master of strategy, who plays the weak hand strong on the world stage like no other, et cetera, et
i was at abc news in the late 90s and struggling to find my footing. and get to anchor that show was like a life raft. you re prefeather weight. you re tiny. i m teeny? how long have you been here? can i just show you something? can i just show you something? can we get a tight shot of this? what does this say? what does this say? anderson cooper, senior anchor. we re on in the middle of the night. you do a lot of stuff you can t do elsewhere. were it not for that show, i would not be sitting here tonight. cnn and david pioneered so much using technology and innovation to create shows like stoate of the union and the situation room. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. david also created news night with aaron brown. david gave me a shot at filling in on news night.
ideas, so many ideas. he loved television and news and thinking of new ways to convey the extraordinary events he himself was able to see first hand as a producer. david grew up in the news. his mom was a television writer, and his dad was a fixture in california local news. good evening, everybody. it s 6:00 in the bay area, and i m stan bormann. that was david s dad. by 2026, david was one of the original staffers at nightline. he quickly became the youngest senior producer ever in network news. he was a visionary. he would come up with ways of doing things that no one had before. he was the first to get live video from mt. everest. at abc he created a kind of news web page before the web as we knew it even existed. and he also created world news now, aaron brown and lisa mccree were the first anchors. the show is still on the air.