today on inside politics, cnn obtains audio that pits donald trump against himself. trump wants you to believe he was playing pretend, but listen here and you decide if it sounds like trump was telling the truth about showing off a classified document. this was done by the military and given to me. plus john roberts doesn t break. the chief justice with a theory to let states rewrite how they count your votes. and the house speaker opens pandora s box. kevin mccarthy suggests that maybe donald trump is not the republicans best bet to beat joe biden. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, which donald trump do you belief within the former president s legal team has to contend with a new problem. prosecutors can play this to a jury. isn t it amazing to have a big pile here? look. this was him. they pregnant prented me this. this is off the record. this was him. this was the defense department. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was h
me save you some breath. if you re going to ask about this, i am not addressing [inaudible] i know you do. more than i d like you to have. i am not going to address this issue from this podium. i m just not going to do it. [inaudible conversations] thanks, guys. have a great weekend. maria: oh, yeah, no response from the white house to the damning message from hunter biden to the to a chinese executive demanding he keep his, quote, commitment or face retaliation from the big guy. then-vice president joe e biden. and, quote, everybody he knows. coming up, chairman jim jordan on why fbi never followed up on the potential corruption in plain sight. oversight committee members byron donalds and south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on what comes next in their investigation of the biden family influence peddling. all of this as communist china ramps up aggression with plans for a military training and spy center in cuba, 100 # miles away from the florida coast, amidst a we
president pleaded not guilty to all 37 federal charges after turning himself in to the miamd. federal courthouse. now, hundreds of his supporters took to the streets outsidhundre the courthouse. some even prayed for trump at se tha arbitrarily stopped at. as he left the courthouse seemed kind of relaxedind of.. now, the justice department is alleging, in case you ve been in a cave the, that the for president mishandled classified documents that includedocumentdo us defense of weapons, secrets and even an attack plan on an unnamed foreign powen r filling. iran. w1 of the charges violate a la called the espionage act. now, whatever you think of donald trump st.donald actions,o put this all into context. the espionage ac c t is over 100 years old. president woodrow wilson signed pres into law to protect the nation from foreign spies duringring world war one. now, most prosecutions involving the espionage act have been reserved for actual spies like julius and ethel rosenberr g
on fake and fabricated charges of which he and numerous other presidents would be guilty. right in the middle ofilty. presidential election in whichs he is losinglosi very badly. no other president, even those who kept far more documents that i has ever been even investigated, let alone charget alond with a crime. it s joe biden and his corrupt department of injustice those who think they are above the law, never before have the two standards of justice in our country been more starkly. o and that same type of cheeringhe you just heard at the clubar was also heard organically hours earlier, hundreds of supporters showed up outside the miami courtroom whercoure pre. tha president trump was arraigned and after that, dozens more wens t to a cuban restaurant in the city where they sang happy birthday to former president trump and took selfie after selfie with him. desp now, one thing is clear here. now, despite all the naysayersit ,his support is still very strong and perhaps
but is it expected to pass? hi the very latest from capitol hill, all thingswashin hitchhiker s guide to washington, d.c. in the swamc., inp cad program is t us . chad, what s going o on ? we expect this to pass, don t we? yeah, sean , good evening.go in fact, we think that they re going to start this 3 mn vote here in the next two tout three minutes. they started this debate at seven , 17 eastern time. and we think thi the actuankl rl call vote is going to come any. minute here. so it s pending. dwe do o expect a bipartisanrs to vote coalition of democrats and gop . house speaker kevin mccarthy members to vote yes. house speaker kevin mccarthy made the closing argumen tt. he said don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. i could say i m going to vote no because there s something re summnot in the bill. if i took that philosophy, i would never vote yes . i simply read the bills in front of me and decide, is this good for the country? i would say that answerhat an is