former president acknowledging he held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. also the vote that almost did not happen, just hours after it squeaked onto the house floor. and rattling russia. a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results, bringing the war in ukraine onto russian soil. prosecutors investigating the former president s handling of classified material have in their possession a recording from the summer of 2021, in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his resort in bedminster that he has held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn is reporting, this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything. and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified document in question. which goes to what kaitlan collins asked him at the town hall earlier this month.
rustling paper. maybe he s waving something. it s unclear whether he s waving the document itself or something else for theatrical effect. for investigators, trump suggests he would like to share this document, but there are limits on his ability to declassify materials now that he is out of office, he says. that s what s particularly important to prosecutors that he is acknowledging he has limits about what he can declassify, and he s talking about this as though it is a still-classified document. exactly. and he and his attorneys have put out these various contradicting explanations for how he did not intentionally withhold classified documents. so, anything that left the oval office, automatically declassified. he said he could declassify things with his mind. then his attorney sent a letter to congress suggesting the only reason he had classified materials in his administration was because at the end of his administration, it was so
whether he s waving the document itself or something else for theatrical effect. most significantly, for foreigners investigators, trump suggest he would like to share this document but there are limits to his ability to declassify materials now that he is out of office. so that s what s particularly important about this recording to federal prosecutors, that he is acknowledging he has limits about what he can declassified is talking about this as though it is a still classified document. exactly. and he has an attorney s, they put out these various contradicting explanations for how he did not intentionally withhold classified documents. they have argued that he had standing declassified order. anything that left the standing office automatically declassified. he said he could declassify things with his mind. s attorney said a letter to congress, saying any reason he