good evening tonight three 60, former president trump turns up the glass light, showing off classified material at his golf club is perfectly normal. also tonight, exclusive cnn reporting. rudy giuliani talking to federal investigators and later, russia strikes again this time a crowded restaurant in ukraine. we will take you there. we begin tonight keeping them honest with a former president running a play from the playbook that he is used time and time again. the former president trying to do damage control today after we played an audiotape last night, that cnn exclusively obtained, in which he is boasting about and seemingly showing off, a classified war plan he was not allowed to have, to people not allowed to see it. the audio was recorded with his knowledge at his bedminster golf club in july of 2021, and is expected to be evidenced at his upcoming trial. i want to replay a portion of it for you now, before showing you his remarks today about it. so there s no doubt wh
just because of his role as the former chief of staff. he was present at donald trump s right-hand at all those key meetings. and if he were to cooperate, is information, i think, would be extremely valuable to the government. david, elaborate on that for us. how crucial could meadows cooperation prove for smith s investigation? i don t mean cooperation in the context of an agreement, but just the fact that he s providing information for what they are seeking in those hours and days after the election. i will hazard a guess. i m the only person in the room here at the moment who had mark meadows memoirs of his white house stint. spoiler alert i will speak for myself and say, yes, i did not read mark meadows memoir. but they were about five or six pages stuff about january 6th is really short. and if you see what has come out just publicly in the text messages and everything else, mark meadows in the testimony
and if you were to cooperate his, information would be extremely valuable. david, elaborate on that for us. how crucl meadows cooperation prove for i don t mean cooperation in the context of an agreement, but just the fact that he s providing information for what they are seeking in those hours and to use a fuller? i m hazard to guess that i m the only person in the room here at the moment who read mark meadows memoirs from his white house stint. spoiler alert i will speak for myself and say yes, i did not read mark meadows memoir. but there are about five or six pages, stuff about january 6th is really short. if you see what s come out just publicly in the text messages and everything else, mark meadows in the testimony at the january 6th congressional committee, he just lied through
according to the special counsel s indictment, he is speaking with a writer working in mark meadows memoir, the publisher and two of his own staffers. and speaking to vox today, in new hampshire, the former president seems to suggest that what you just heard, was not what you just heard. what did i say wrong on those recordings? i didn t even see the recording. all i know, as i did nothing wrong. we had a lot of papers, a lot of papers stacked up. in fact, you can hear the russell of the paper. and nobody said i did anything wrong. other than the fake news, which of course is fox too. well first of, all audio is not something you can see, it s a record, you hear it. but putting that aside, he then goes on the top details about what s on the audio, which he says he s never seen. but, his basic argument, is one of his favorite go-tos. what you heard, is not what you heard. his campaign spokesman also continuing to gaslight. quote, the audiotape provides context, proving once again th
but the interesting thing to me here is there are other witnesses, potentially, you can imagine a trial scenario and which every person in that room testifies at some point. for instance, the authors of mark meadows memoir, who were listening to this display will be able to say, what was in his hand at the moment he was saying this? you hear the stories in the background. it sounds like somebody is moving a piece of paper. did you see the president doing something at that point? what did you assume that he meant by waving a piece of paper? what did you think, was that the report he was talking about? there s all kinds of additional corroborate of detail that you could add to this rich picture of the misuse of classified information in front of a bunch of people who don t have any official access to classified information. elliott, if the classified document is on his desk in this meeting at bedminster and he s