vlad and so many of the people that we have met here on this visit and of course that we ve talked to over the past 16 months, they all have that incredible, powerful reservoir of strength. thanks so much for joining us. it s time now for ac 360. good evening. we begin tonight with breaking news. we have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government s case against donald trump, the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he s showing a highly classified document on u.s. war plans against iran, with people not clear to know it exists, let alone what s in it. you will hear what jurors will hear one day. the recording was made two summers ago in bedminster new jersey. you will clearly hear the former president, as he is speaking to several people. they include a writer working on mark meadows memoir, the publisher, and two of trump s staff members. the president was aware he was being recorded. it is the first time it is being played
it then america. thursday, july 4 dead stuff good morning. you were alive in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the owl with presidential campaigns during a critical moment, just three days and counting until joe biden and donald trump face off in a prime time debate right here on cnn. the earliest showdown of its kind in modern history, president biden, his team will remain hunkered down at camp david, where he s then the last few days and debate prep. meanwhile, over the weekend, donald trump road-tested potential debate strategies at a rally in philadelphia how should i handle him? should i be tough and nasty or should i be should i be she say no, should i be tough and nasty and just say you re the worst president in history or should i be nice and calm? and let him speak be tough? so how are the two campaigns spending these final days before the debate joining me now are cnn s alayna treene and kevin lip tack. kevin, you have some new reporting a
he s saying he doesn t have the cookie jar. you put the cookies there. the jar is mine. the cookies are mine. the story changes from moment to moment to moment. it s like the narcissist s prayer, which is, if i did it, i didn t do it. if i did it, you made me do it. it was okay anyway. the endless lying. and he just it s like an onion. you peel his lies and get more lies. how much of this undercuts the former president s legal argument that he could declassify anything whenever he wanted, when was the argument they were making early on, a lot of his supporters were making early on. he acknowledges he could have declassified it when he was president, but now no longer. he knows. he knows he didn t do it. he knows that he can t do it now that he is no longer president. and he s telling them, oh, this is off the record. this is confidential. look at this. and it s manifestly it s manifestly top secret, manifestly still classified, and that doesn t even matter under the more seriou