meeting where former president trump discusses holding secret documents he does not declassify. listen. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is it ooff the record. but they presented me with this. this is the defense department and him. this was him. that wasn t done by me, it was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. let s see here. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential, secret. as a president i could declassify, but now i can t. yeah, now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? so cool. we hear you probably almost didn t believe me, but now you believe me. no, i believed you. incredible, right? this conversation is a critical piece of evidence in the case of trump s alleged mishandling of classified information. and paula reid explains. reporter: this recording is from the summer 2021 at bedminster, speaking to two people working on an auto
and on wall street, stock index futures barely positive this morning. markets really unfazed by russia s weekend drama, but slipped at the close yesterday dragged down by tech shares. russia of course is a major oil producer, crude oil prices initially rose on instability but it slipped back. gas prices fell a penny overnight to $3.56 a gallon, well below the $4.90 at this time last year. today consumer confidence number and new home sales due out later this morning. let s bring in mark zandi. i wanted to get your thoughts on the weekend traumad draw thatma russia. you wrote that # the global economy uld get a big boost if russia s internaconflict forced it to curtail its war more quickly. the war has done serious