iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers this thing these were the papers. this was done by the military, and given to me. i think we can probably, right? i don t know. we ll have to see. we ll have to try to declassify, right? see, as president i could have declassified it. now i can t, but this is classified. yeah. now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? it s so cool. so the superseding indictment confirms that this new count, count 32 is, in fact, quote, the document that trump possessed and showed on july 21st, 2021 and files it under presentation concerning military activity in a foreign country. let s bring in former cia director now and msnbc senior security analyst brennan. i want to continue with this indictment for a moment because they elaborate for a moment between january 2021 and august
confidential. secretive. according to the superseding indictment, the document that trump assessed and showed on july 21st, 2021, the one referenced in that very audiotape we just played, the document is charged as count 32 in this superseding indictment. still with me tonight s state prosecutor tally, now we know that it wasn t just bluster, at least according it sounds like trump had the plans and his him but he was waving around whoever was in his office. why are they charging this now? they ve always had the documents. that, we know. remember, alex, we have more than 100 documents and only charged 31, not 32. so they ve made an initial decision of which to leave on the cutting room floor. i think that there were two categories of things, one where the ones that didn t have jury appeal, i think, which were too boring, maybe the technically classified but didn t really tell you why this was a danger
documents he hoarded down at mar-a-lago. but this new 32nd count is a bit different. this is about a presentation concerning military activity in a foreign country. and that charge answers a question that was raised by the previous indictment about whether trump had a certain document in his possession when this conversation took place at his bedminster golf club in 2021. take a listen. i just found isn t that amazing? just totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential. secretive. according to the superseding indictment, the document that trump possessed and showed on july 21st, 2021, the one referenced in that very audiotape we just played, the document is charged as count 32 in this superseding indictment.
development here, as we know, as katelyn polantz and i have indicated, prosecutors obtained this audio recording of former president trump, he s at a meeting at his bedminster property, and he suggests that he is still in possession of a classified document. now one thing that we couldn t understand from the first document is why he was not charged with retaining that document. there are questions about whether the investigators had it, if the former president s lawyers obtained it. what s interesting is in this indictment that is specifically charged on page 17. they say that that document they re referring to, the one he references in that recording, is the one that was possessed by him and shown on july 21st, 2021, is charged as count 32, so that s now the last document that s listed here. and it describes it as being a top secret and presenting information concerning military activity in a foreign country. that really fills in something that we ve been wondering about
go up on a wire, and we had a defendant saying things like, yeah, i m gonna need ten kilos next friday, when the jurors can sit there. and look at the defendant across the courtroom and hear his own voice, sort of, convicting himself, that is some of the most powerful evidence imaginable. all right, glenn, well, you get your wish. we re gonna press play and play that conversation donald trump had with fox news s bret baier about the state just before it went public. watch. according to the indictment, you were here in bedminster on july 21st, 2021, after you were no longer president. and you were recorded saying that you had a document detailing a planned attack on another country that was prepared by the u.s. military for when you were president, the iran attack plan. you remember that? you are recorded it wasn t a document. i had lots of paper. i had copies of newspaper articles. i had copies of magazines specifically a, quote you