been saying from the moment president trump rolled and the golden escalator, the president did nothing wrong. and so they are saying, essentially, it proves the defense. but i think if you are looking at it from the legal perspective and what the defense attorneys here are going to have to argue when they are in court, in miami, it is going to make it difficult for them. and our sources have acknowledged privately that s when they found out about this audiotape, which they didn t know about it on march, whenever marco martin in a trump went into the grand jury that is when they found out about. made their case a lot more difficult. yeah i mean that is clearly a legal lens of all of this. i mean, he does say, not rhetorically, that these documents are secret. but he didn t declassify. that is all actually in pretty black and white text. caitlin and paula, thank you both very much for joining us. i want to turn now to some legal analysis, to address some of the things that caitlan just
but he didn t declassify. that is all actually in pretty black and white text. caitlin and paula, thank you both very much for joining us. i want to turn now to some legal analysis, to address some of the things that caitlan just raised. bringing in former trump white house lawyer jim schultz. and former federal prosecutor and national security lawyer paul rosen wing. thank you both so much for joining us. james, he is saying out loud as i was just saying that he can t declassify those documents that he had when he was no longer in office. does that full context of the tape as you hear all of it change anything for you in terms of the strength of this evidence for the special counsel? not really if anything it bolsters it. if this evidence is admissible than i am imagine that they are going to try to challenge a number of different fronts, i am not sure where they make their argument here to exclude this evidence? but if it is admissible in court, it certainly is troubling for their
mistake, i m withdrawing all of russia s troops, and we ll talk about next steps. he s the only person that could end this war. putin made that decision, doesn t look like he s making that decision, but that would end the war, let s get out of ukraine, let that country do what it wants to do. the cnn audio of trump talking about highly confidential, t top-secret information with his group at mar-a-lago or country club in new jersey these were all very, very highly confidential, top-secret documents, talking specifically about the possibility of a war option against iran, for whatever reason. does that audio you ve heard the audio now. what s your reaction to that? because it s really disturbing that a former president would be sharing this kind of top-secret information with people who don t have security clearances. it does not surprise me. it shocks me. if true. if all the allegations are true, it s very irresponsible and
trump says he did, quoting him now, nothing wrong. when he discussed holding secret documents he didn t declassify. cnn s kristen holmes has all the latest developments on the race for the republican presidential nomination. reporter: republican rivals descending on the granite state. former president donald trump, the current gop front-runner, speaking at a luncheon with the new hampshire federation of republican women. thanks as well to all of the republic women of the great state of new hampshire. reporter: and attacking his chief rival, florida governor ron desantis. somebody said, how come you only attack him? i said, because he s in second place. why don t you attack others? because they re not in second place. but soon, i don t think he ll be in second place, so i ll be attacking somebody else. reporter: desantis taking a less direct approach during his town hall about 40 mile way. the question is, and i remember these rallies in 2016. it was exciting. drain the sw
classified. he didn t declassify it. dana, he has said time and time again he s declassified all this material. this is the most political thing i have ever seen. they have been out to they re indicting president trump on tuesday for having material that he declassified that was protected by the secret service and the people who are doing it is the administration, the justice department from his opponent in the upcoming presidential election. this is as political as it gets and frankly, dana, it s part of a pattern. we have seen it time and time again with the president over the last seven years. they try one thing and then they try another and they ve continued to go after him and anyone with common sense can see that. okay. this is a very detailed indictment and a couple of things you just said. number one, the secret service, they are charged with protecting the president and they didn t even know according to the indictment that the documents were there. that wasn t their job