stories, having to do with many, many subjects. what we said was absolutely fine and very perfectly. we did nothing wrong. you are not concerned what was your own voice on these recordings? my voice was fine. what did i say wrong and those recordings. i didn t see the recording. all i know, i did nothing wrong. we had a lot of papers, a lot of paper stacked up. in fact you could hear the russell of the paper. i want to bring in john bolton, former trump national security adviser and former u.s. ambassador to the united nations. ambassador bolton, thanks for being with us tonight. what was your reaction about hearing this type? it sounded exactly like i have heard donald trump talk in similar settings and the fact that he really, out of his own mouth, admitted both to having a classified document to saying he could have declassified it but did not before he left the
which were presidential. irrespective of whether the document was classified. so if you follow that theory of defense, one of the problems they have to prove under the statute that he is charged with is it a person unauthorized to have the document. if they believe, and they think that they can prove that they were authorized to have the document, whether classified or not, because the president had the exclusive right without judicial review of determining that something is a personal document, and he believed this to be a personal document, let s just say for arguments sake, because he felt he had been in the past under siege and people are told lies about him he wanted to be able to defend himself. in this case he thought that general milley was doing a disservice to the country, he wanted to the country to know so i m just giving you a scenario. i hear what you are saying, but i think we should also tell the viewers, just so that they understand, what you are describing is some
it also helps him. can he win an election? yes i think you can. the question is if he is the strongest, i do not know that answer. just hours after that interview, mccarthy tried to walk those comments back saying that trump is stronger than he was in 2016, with me now is republican asa hutchinson. he assumed this agrees, he s running as president and as served as arkansas s governor. governor hutchinson, what does it say about your party that the house speaker cannot simply suggest that a former president who is twice impeached and roth lost his reelection has been indicted in a multiple times, may not be the strongest candidate for your party? well, speaker mccarthy is of course trying to hold his coalition together and whenever you look at what he has said, eagerly spoke with a quiet truth that there is an understanding among the republicans that we are in great shape for 2024 unless donald trump is leading the ticket, and that could cause us to lose both of the white house,
country, they really have a public minded in his, they are very bright and incredible something tells me she was not talking about you. i know that, but by making the point that there are really good people that serve. even if you look at the ones running for president there are 12 republicans running, most of them are serious candidates that bring great credentials. i think her point obviously is that we need candidates and we need elected leaders that have courage, that stand for convictions, that speaks the truth, and do not always listen to the loudest voice in the room. that is what i believe the american people want and need, and also it reminds me that our founding fathers understood that we are all humans who are flawed, and so that is why there is a system of checks and balances. that is why we have the different branches of government, the united states supreme court today really affirmed the check and balance of a judicial judicial where they can overrule legislative
tapes and part of this thing is, i know ambassador fold and make the point that it is going to come down to what the witnesses say. you can be sure each of the witnesses who are present to have them interviewed by the government and they know what those people intended to say. so that is going to give some sort of flavor to what happened here. but, it is not quite as simple as people think. it is a serious matter, but every criminal case almost every criminal case has serious issues that have to be fought and there are some defenses to this. they have to fit within their defense theory, part of the problem right now is that he does not really have a real criminal defense lawyer on this team, he is going to have to have that. to that point, what do you think that the trump will eventually get a lawyer willing to take up this case given how he conducts himself as a defendant? is it difficult to get a lawyer to want to take up, not only the case and the difficult issues that arise, but