meeting where former president trump discusses holding secret documents he does not declassify. listen. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is it ooff the record. but they presented me with this. this is the defense department and him. this was him. that wasn t done by me, it was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. let s see here. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential, secret. as a president i could declassify, but now i can t. yeah, now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? so cool. we hear you probably almost didn t believe me, but now you believe me. no, i believed you. incredible, right? this conversation is a critical piece of evidence in the case of trump s alleged mishandling of classified information. and paula reid explains. reporter: this recording is from the summer 2021 at bedminster, speaking to two people working on an auto
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
i love when you say the destruction of the semantic train right is that what you re saying? i wrote it down. that is. i love it! i love it! happy valentine s day buddy! to you to. thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to you at home. it is not been a quiet one. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and to whether trump unlawfully retain classified documents and obstructed efforts to recover them. first of breaking news in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran who s been representing the former president in his negotiations with the justice department over classified documents found at mar-a-lago. corcoran s already can appeared before the grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms it special jackson jack smith is invoking the crime fraud exception and seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing before a ju
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it. i love it. happy valentine s day, buddy. you,s too. and thank you for joining us at home. happy valentine s day to all of you outle there. we have lots of news this evening regarding the special counsel s investigations into both trump s efforts to overturn theor 2020 election and into whether trump unlawfully obtained classified documents and obstructed efforts to uncover them. first the breaking news tonight in the mar-a-lago documents investigation. it concerns trump lawyer evan corcoran, who s been representing the former president in negotiations with the justice department over documents foundst at mar-a-lago. corcoran has already appeared before a grand jury but tonight nbc news confirms special counsel jack smith isrm invokin the crime fraud exception in seeking more of corcoran s testimony. in a sealed filing of a judge overseeing the grand jury nbc reports that doj prosecutors say they have evidence of some of trump sso conversations with corcoranti were in