hello, everyone. good to be with you, i m chris jansing, the death toll from this weekend s extreme weather across the south has risen to six. half a million people remain without power across multiple states after a series of vicious storms and tornadoes and the extreme heat isn t letting up either we re on the ground in texas where temperatures have soared above 120 degrees in some spots. how residents are coping. and secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his two-day visit to china, but how much progress was actually made in his high stakes meeting with president xi jinping meanwhile in florida, we have movement in the classified documents case what a magistrate judge just blocked donald trump from doing, and what options his legal team could be weighing to put the trial off for as long as possible and juneteenth celebrations underway across the country. how states are marking this federal holiday. but we begin with the dangerous storms in the south thatch l
hello, everybody, welcome to inside politics, i m john king in washington. up first, some important breaking and exclusive new cnn reporting about the special counsel investigation, and that audio recording of the former president donald trump. sources now telling cnn that trump attorneys turned over material in mid-march, two and a half months ago, in mid-march, connected to a classified military document. the one prosecutors hear mr. trump describe on that audio recording now in their possession. that tape prompting a fresh subpoena from special counsel jack smith s investigators for any and all documents relate to general mark milley, the joint chiefs chair, or iran, sources telling cnn there s also a big unknown, whether that document in question, an iran attack plan, was ever actually returned to the government. let s break down this important reporting. it s beginning with the team behind it. cnn s kaitlan collins joins us from new york. paula reid is here with me in wa
electors. presumably designed to create so much confusion the congress would kick the matter back to republican-led state legislators as to overturn joe biden s win in the states. it will explore the broader pressure campaign aimed at subverting the will of the american people. the first witness is the arizona state house speaker. aides say bowers will share critical new details about trump s demands and even harassment as the president sought to decertify biden s legitimate and legal win and republican-led arizona. the georgia secretary of state will also testify live. he famously went public with a phone call from trump. trump asking him to, quote, find enough votes to take away joe biden s legal and legitimate win in georgia and concoct an illegitimate trump win. another georgia election official will appear before the committee. you might remember sterling on december 1st, 2020. he publicly pleaded with trump to stop inspiring people to commit potential acts of violence.
think he s going to change i think that s what s clear from our reporting, he s probably not going to change his mind he went to extreme lengths to keep boxes of documents even when he was given advice it was not a good idea, and trying to hide things, a shell game after he received a subpoena asking for the documents. there s no reason to think donald trump would change his mind now especially because i don t think he wants to play guilty what s so interesting, though, about republicans like bill barr, john bolton and others coming out and saying what donald trumps is wrong is going to be a real test of whether or not the republican party decides they want to continue to have donald trump be the standard bearer, former officials, once extremely venerated, less so because of their service in the trump administration, basically trying to convince their own party members that something must be done so this man does not become the nominee it will be interesting to see
we reported yesterday that prosecutors have this audio recording of donald trump talking about having a classified document, saying, on that audio recording, that he wishes he could share it but he knows he can t, which is important. now, in this new reporting, you and your colleagues, number one, is a trump aide, margot martin, who goes before the grand jury, they have an audiorecording, and after her testimony, they send a subpoena to trump attorneys. walk us through the significance of this. yeah, so, mario martin, who is a former white house press aide who followed trump and works in his post-presidency office down in mar-a-lago went before investigators back in mid-march, he was there when she testified they played this audio recording that we broke the reporting on for her. we are told that shortly after she left, that is when prosecutors sent a subpoena asking for any and all documents related to general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, and iran. i m tol