has an audio recording of former president trump in 2021 seemingly admitting, again, on tape, that he took a classified document with him when he left the white house, a classified document allegedly detailing plans of how the u.s. could attack iran. that document. well tonight, we have new reporting that trump s lawyers do not know where the document is. they are unable to find the war plans trump may have been casually waving around at his new jersey golf club two years ago. everybody check your golf carts, ask your caddies! anyone see stray plans for war in iran? no. we are going to talk about that a little bit later tonight. but we also have some big news in one of the other big trump investigations. it came out of fulton county, georgia where district attorney fani willis is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020 election results. let me back up first. do you remember this story from february about how trump s campaign hired a team of researchers to prove thei
for joining us this hour. so they can t find the document. we are learning more about this week s blockbuster reporting that special counsel jack smith has an audio recording of former president trump in 2021 seemingly admitting again, on tape that he took a classified document with him when he left the white house, a classified document allegedly detailing plans of how the u.s. could attack. iran that document. well tonight, we have new reporting that trump s lawyers do not know where the document is. they are unable to find the war plans trump may have been casually waving around at his new jersey golf club two years ago. everybody check your golf carts, ask your caddies! anyone see stray plans for war in iran? no. we are going to talk about that a little bit later tonight. but we also had some big news in one of the other big trump investigations. it came out of fulton county, georgia where district attorney fani willis is investigating trump s effort to overturn the 2020
of course, you are sitting in iowa and you have republicans flocking in fast and furious to try to win iowa and get ready for the caucus as biden is trying to seize the national stage here. it is hard to imagine either side getting a lot of credit from the country for what is happening this week. it s a significant development. for the president, for doing what he said he would do, work with republicans and for speaker mccarthy as well. he has been underestimated throughout the first part of this year. the white house never thought he would be able to keep his republicans unified. that is what happened. i can tell you, being out here for several days talking to voters on both sides, there s not a lot of applause for washington. there s not a lot of credit for averting a crisis from happening. there is no doubt president biden despite if he doesn t on a friday night, how we consume the news now and everything that is chopped up and shared, this will get into the bloodstream
here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour, president biden today will sign the debt ceiling bill into law. averting a disastrous default two days before that deadline. the president is using his first oval office address to praise the bipartisan agreement, and stressed its importance. it was critical to reach the agreement. and it s very good news for american people. no one got everything they wanted. the american people got what they needed. we averted an economic crisis, an economic collapse. in this debate, i refused to put what was responsible for all of this progress on the chopping block. i ve never been more optimistic about america s future. brand new details today, reports the special counsel has a recording of donald trump talking about a classified document regarding the new york times says the justice department issued a subpoena for that document, trump lawyer say they can t find. it last night msnbc s are allanburg
the reidout with joy reid is up next. tonight on the reidout you re the president of the united states. you can declassify just by saying it s declassified, even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. yeah, that s what he told fox. but new reporting tonight indicates prosecutors have in their possession tape of trump after he left the white house acknowledging that he was holding on to highly sensitive material, which he did not, in fact, declassify. also tonight, the latest on the debt ceiling bill, which comes up for a critical house vote just a short time from now. the great lawrence o donnell joins me to discuss. and maryland governor wes moore will be here. he and other democratic governors are enacting bold, progressive policies that help people instead of hurting them. imagine that? in sharp contrast to the