let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really,
as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really, this is interesting because it s all about people running books about themselves and recording all that stuff that people want to put into history about their time in the white house. it also shows us where the special counsel may be in this investigation, that recording he s talking about, reportedly indicates that trump understood that he had, in fact, kept classified material after leaving the white house. it was still classified while in his possession, and he no longer have the ability to declassify it. on that recording, trump s comments reportedly suggest that he would like to share the information contained within the document, but that he could not because he s aware that he no longer has the ability to declassify materials after leaving the white house. cnn did not listen to the recording, but did cite multiple unidentified sources
and out of that storage room, as we have discussed so often. as wthe fact that we re talking about the classified documents and what trump might have shown people, that is textbook of title 18. but this also shows that when donald trump s been talking about this, he s been lying time and time and time again. of course, as we saw in the tea cnn town hall meeting, republicans cheery whenever he brags about being a lawyer, but special counsels aren t quite so excited about that. when i say republicans, i mean those republicans in that cnn town hall audience sheared at him saying he lied about the debt ceiling and he s being a hypocrite. they thought it was the funniest thing in the world. jack smith doesn t think it s so funny. when donald trump goes on in september 21st, 2022 and says, i can be declassified
describing what was on the tape. trump has denied any wrongdoing. joining us now is political investigations reporter for the guardian, hugo lowell, who has matched cnn s reporting. walk us or if you would, hugo, what you know about this tape, having not listen to, it but heard all the accounts from people who have. what did the former president say and what does it tell us about what he knew about the documents in his possession? he went a little bit further and on the tape you made a suggestion that he should ve declassified this military document relating to iran when he was in the white house and he still had presidential power to declassify. he had not done so. i think it does come back to this point about how he seems to be acknowledging for the first time, that the entire theory about how he could or how he had declassified everything that ended up at mar-a-lago and
let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who