to set for everybody below him in the executive branch that deals with classified information. then to handle it carefully. which trump has flouted. he did for four years in office, he s done it since then. and i think that there is something to be said to show the people that you are held to high standards because everybody else s, including the president, and when you fail to uphold those standards, you pay the penalty. all right, former united nations ambassador, john bolton, thank you for joining us. thank you. coming up next, donald trump s former impeachment attorney will respond to the tape. and how trump s lawyers may try to defend it. plus, a busy night here tonight. not one, but two presidential candidates. isa hutchinson, and will, heard join us live next. and vladimir putin s russia, launching a deadly attack in ukraine. as the nation reels from a rebellion. cnn s at the site of the strike,
now believe that the he did have in his possession, that document that he claimed to have? you never can tell with trump, but presumably the witnesses saw the document, they didn t just hear the papers russell. and perhaps they had to look at it, and perhaps the trump staffer sides. i m very interested in the list of 84 potential witnesses that the special counsel has filed. that s gonna be enormously interesting, if any or all of that is made public. and i think that in each of these things that are revealed, i hope that is not a leak from the special counsel s office. i don t know where it came from, i hope it did not come from there. as this unfolds, i think the public will get a more profound sense of the danger, potentially cause to american national security. by trump s obsession with having these things because as he says in that, excerpted shows cool to have. it. and you hear him on the tape
nations. thank you for being with us here tonight, what was your reaction upon hearing this tape? it sounded exactly like i ve 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 that he could have declassified it but did not. before he left the white house. and that he still had it. my first thought was, imagine our jury hearing that at trial. and if there are more pieces of evidence like that. the sooner this case goes to the jury, the better. i think that s gonna be this positive factor here, really whether we see this case tried before the november 2024 election or after. you said before including on this program, that trump was prone to bluster and embellishment. as you heard the audio did this ring alarm bells to you about how serious this is, and do you
camps here. there are the physical gaffs. verbal gaffes. and then we go to washington d.c. to take back the white house. [screaming] and then there are misstatements, miss pronunciations. all that part for the course. it is difficult to run for president, or any office, and you are expected to know about a lot. so today, yet another candidate heard that the hard way, listen to republican miami mayor and republican frances soares on the hugh hewitt radio show earlier today. will you be talking about the uyghurs in your campaign? the uyghurs? what is a uyghur? you re giving me homework. you really need to know about the uyghurs mayor. i will search uyghurs, i am a good learner, a fast learner.
recorded, trump called for a further restrictive voting large but that is not here or there. today, trump did respond, twice, to this tape. he said that the top on the tape was all bravado. but he also said this. i had a whole desk full of lots of papers, mostly newspaper argue tickles, copies of magazines, copies of different plants, having to do with many many subjects. and what was said was absolutely fine. and very perfectly we did nothing wrong. you are not concerned then, with your own voice on those recordings? my voice was fine. what did i say wrong about those recordings? i didn t even see the recording. all i know is that i did nothing wrong. we had a lot of papers, a lot of papers 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