transition team, and also with us international trade expert rebecca harding. i am sure they will both have a view, on the tensions in the middle east. jake sullivan the national security adviser was in riyadh today. on what basis? rumours that president biden might be considering a new peace iniative. and the emmys are postponed. the writers and actors are still on strike, the ad buyers withdrawing funds, how do the studios find a way out of this punishing hollywood strike. lets start with the trumpet news. trump news. the former us president donald trump has been charged with two further counts of retaining classified materials. these latest charges relates to a taped conversation the former president had at his bedminster golf club in newjersey, in which he talks about a pentagon plan of attack on a foreign country, thought to be iran. trump had always denied he had retained any of the classified
to incriminating statements by former president donald trump. and this week, we heard one that could be damning as part of his special counsel federal indictment. that recording is from july of 2021 with trump allegedly discussing a sensitive military documents he describes as a quote, plan of attack given to him by general mark milley to attack iran. this was done by the military, and given to me. i think we can probably, right? always opened his big mouth. trump claiming an interview who was just quote bravado, adding i was talking and holding up papers and talking about, them but i had no documents. i didn t have any documents. this is the new york times report special counsel s investigation is continuing despite trump s indictment with more subpoenas being issued.
yeah, that s right, kaitlan. and we ve seen this in a number of instances, you know, other people who are key witnesses. and you guys have reported extensively on this in terms of that audio, the other instance that the indictment focuses on, which is this recording of trump talking to a bunch of people in a room, where he, you know, waves papers that the indictment says was something he called a plan of attack, that was a classified document that he had from his white house days. one of the people in that meeting was margot martin, who travels with him frequently. other people who are connected to his world in various ways are also part of this indictment. walt nauta himself, his codefendant, is on the plane repeatedly. it does speak to the unprecedented nature in terms of the sprawl of this case, the level of his prevalent on the political scene, and his dominance of the race on the republican side for the presidential nomination. and the fact that it is overlapping with all of the
but the fact that trump is still with susie wiles, nearly on a daily basis, just adds another layer to the potential witnesses there are around him on a daily basis. yeah, that s right kaitlan. and we ve seen this in a number of instances. other people who are key witnesses, and you guys have reported extensively on this in terms of that audio of the other instance, the indictment focuses on, which is this recording of trump talking to a bunch of people in a room where he waives papers, that the indictment says was something he called a plan of attack, that was a classified document that he had from his white house days. one of the people in that meeting was margot martin, who travels with him frequently. other people who are connected to his world in various ways, are also part of this indictment, walt nada himself, is codefendant, it is on the plane repeatedly. it does speak to the unprecedented nature the level of his prevalence on the political scene, and his dominance of this
donald trump is facing his watergate moment, caught on tape admitting actions that could send him to prison, driing damning headlines about how he acknowledged he had these confidential documents on the tape. that s the heart of the case. we did know of this tape because its key parts had been transcribed in the doj indictment that got trump arraigned just two weeks ago today. a detail trump was at his golf club talking to a writer and people who had no security clearances but he showed them that plan of attack, which he admitted was secret. so that s damning written evidence, but hearing the defendant on tape can be more gripping than a transcript. richard nixon s tapes showed that. he of course had previously faced all kinds of witnesses and allegations, but his real problems came with the tapes. indeed as one washington post explained across all of watergate, the most sensational revelation is that nixon had a