they were trying to do that even before you were sworn in. well, with milley, let me see that. i ll show you an example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. this thing just came up, look, this was him. they presented me this. this is off the record. but they presented me this. this was him. this was a defense department and him. we look at some. this was him. this wasn t done by me. this was him. all sorts of stuff pages long, look wait a minute, let s see here. oh, my gosh. yeah [laughter] isn t that amazing. this totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential, secret secret information. look at this, you attack hillary would print that out all the time, you know. no, she would send it to anthony weiner [laughter] the pervert. by the way, isn t that incredible? i was just thinking because we were talking about it. and you know, he said he wanted to attack iran and what these a
and what it means for the war in ukraine. then, despite the mounting legal troubles, the twice and i did former president is still the republican front runner. why some democrats are sounding the alarm. as that 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, for the first time, we are hearing donald trump on day in 2021, discussing a secret document about attacking iran that he did not declassify. as we reported, the conversation is a key part of special counsel jack smith s case against donald trump, and it is referenced in the indictment against him. cnn obtained and played the recording earlier this evening. these are bad, sick people. that was your coup, you know, against you well, it started right at the when hillary, miller is talking about, you are trying to do a coup. they were trying to do that even before you were sworn in. well, with milley, let me see that. i ll show you an example. he sai
interview that you are playing with fox news. but i think the audiotape tonight conclusively, as glenn said a moment ago, just destroys this claim. and i want to re-echo something that glenn set because glenn has been a formidable prosecutor. he understands this. and he s absolutely right. there is no substitute for hearing this if you are the jury, from donald trump s own mouth. it is one thing to read a transcript or something like that, or have someone else say, here s what trump said. it s another thing to hear the words. you are literally hearing the crime being committed. and destroying his defenses. you don t need a glimpse kushner to prosecute this case. you don t need a jack smith to prosecute this case. anyone can prosecute this case. luckily, glenn kirschner is here. glenn, it was just a few days ago that the wall street journal reported prosecutors were struggling to actually feel that they had enough evidence to prove motive.
giving you the hardest job of the night, especially because neal was just applauding your scope as a prosecutor. how about a defense attorney i want you to put yourself in donald trump s lawyers shoes tonight. what are you telling your client and what s your strategy, truly? yes, there is no less comfortable place to be than in the shoes of a donald trump lawyer. i don t think he has a defense on either the facts or the law. let me follow up on a great point that neal made, you know, he will try to talk about hillary clinton. but that information, that evidence will not see the inside of a courtroom. he continues to engage in a huge miscalculation. he is playing to the court of public opinion. he s gonna lose the case in a court of law because so much of what he says will never see that inside of a courtroom. but when you ask, steph, what
so, try and square that, and that s exactly where the republican primaries are. i don t know that in the short term that this listen it s interesting, when we hear the tape we absolutely hear something it seems oh some uncontroversial, but about human s supporters are the. table first of all, they probably won t hear the tape. but if they did, i bet they would hear something different. well in the state right there mark, because bob just said donald trump s political future is still an open question, but his lead in the republican primary is actually getting bigger since he was indicted. what do you make of that, mark? well that s exactly what i said. i think that trump is making the case that there are two systems of justice and that it is a political attack, you are either with the doj the democrats, or you are with him. that is the dividing line now. so if your republican, and you are running, or your supporter, or a voter. that is the black and white issues that they make, yo