thank you both. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my good friend, alex wagner. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed chunk reporting even more incredible. if you have not yet heard nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump at his bedminster, new jersey, golf club essentially admitting to a crime. here s trump in july 2021 telling a group of people he still has classified information after leaving the white house and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president but he did not. take a listen. i just found isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential. yeah, yeah. secretive this is secre
from the new york times tonight. the times reports that in addition to the search for classified documents down at mar-a-lago special counsel jack smith s team also went over to the bedminster property and went over that with a fine toothed comb. smith subpoenaed surveillance video and after the fbi searched mar-a-lago last summer, they were concerned that trump still had more documents stashed at bedminster. the times then goes onto describe yet another document saga much like the one we already knew about at mar-a-lago in which smith s office, again, after having already searched mar-a-lago, asked trump to provide a sworn statement that everything had been turned over. trump refused. smith s office then tried to get a subpoena so that they could search the bedminster property. but minutes literally minutes