Week. a lot of attention has been focused on the swift passage of that bill in the house on wednesday, the senate late last night. large bipartisan majorities. all that s been happening, special counsel jack smith has been barreling ahead with his investigation of the ex president, now the leading contender for the republican nomination in 2024. earlier this week we learned that smith had obtained a key new piece of evidence in the case of donald trump s handling of classified documents. he s now in possession of an audio recording in which trump acknowledges he held on to classified pentagon documents about a potential attack on iran. on that recording from july 2021 meeting at his bedminster, new jersey golf club. trump began railing about his handpicked chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general mark milley who was described in media counts at the time is having guarded against trump s strike in iran in the final days of his presidency newtown s reports the ex president began ref
the imminent indictment watch on the mar-a-lago documents. i don t think about it, all i know is this, everything i did was right. tonight have got thoughts on trump s real motive for taking all that classified info. then, the winning strategy for candidate desantis. being the most anti vax person on the ballot? we can never allow warp speed to trump informed consent in this country ever again. plus, president biden s oval office address. passing this budget agreement was critical. the states cannot have been higher. and the crazy story of why republicans in iowa have stripped the power from the state auditor? all in starts right now. good evening from new york i m chris hayes. president joe biden just wrapped up a primetime address to the nation from the oval office touting the debt ceiling deal that he brokered with speaker kevin mccarthy this
Document he had with him saying it had been compiled by general milley and was related to attacking iran. according to new reporting just out this afternoon, trump s attorneys have not found that classified document in question, even after receiving a subpoena specifically for earlier this year. so where is it now? we don t know. but i think this new information that we got yesterday, this recording and the context of the document and mark milley. it finally clarifies a key question, the question around donald trump s motive for holding on to these many classified documents after he left the white house. in a strictly legal sense the motive doesn t actually matter. in order to file criminal charges the special counsel just has to believe that a crime was committed. it s a shock if it s strong enough to lead to a conviction but of course juries, and us the public, we do want to know why. why would he do this. the question of why the ex president took these documents and then refused t
It launching a strike that would result in a full blown war. trump hated that report and claimed that the document that he had, the classified document he had taken, according to reporting on the recording. that document, he says milley wrote, that would undermine the general story. how could donald trump have been working, how could milley have been working against attacking iran if he wrote the plan of how to do it. now, again, to be clear, this is all misleading. the military has contingency plans for pretty much everything including a war with iran. sources have also told multiple news outlets that milley did not write that report. but in donald trump s point of view, that document was his ammunition to settle his score with the general. that is the motive that really makes sense to me. that that he just plucked
Back and apparently obstructed attempts to get them back, so far has not been clear. there s been a few theories. so some people have suggested, floated this, not based on any evidence, just as a theory. that trump had a corrupt he wanted to sell the information he had taken to foreign interest. i have to say, that always struck me is pretty unlikely. i think that would be a more complicated high-risk play that donald trump is equipped to even attempt. then there s another theory, a suggestion that he kept the documents because the guys just a paragraph who really likes souvenirs. and i have to say, that s been kind of my leading belief. it seems totally plausible, just given the state of his office in trump tower. this office is all you, and it s a little bit junkie. yeah, you know what, this guy just got a few weeks ago.