what a change it made so fast. i feel like anything is possible after accomplishing what i ve done with golo. thank you so much for letting us into your homes. we are so grateful. the beat with katie phang in for ari melber starts now. always good to see and thanks to you for everything. for the rest of you, welcome to the beat. i m in for ari melber. we start tonight with breaking news trump reportedly caught on tape. damaging new evidence in the trump classified documents criminal investigation. cnn is reporting prosecutors have obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting in which former president donald trump acknowledges that he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. the recording indicating trump understood that he had retained classified materials after leaving the white house. the report adds on the recording trump s comments suggest he would like to share the information but he s aware of limitations on his abili
Former US president Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Friday to the new charges filed against him for allegedly mishandling top secret government documents.In a written notice on Friday to the US district court in Florida handling the case, Trump pleaded not guilty to the new charges.
this, but do we now have some of the strongest evidence in support of an espionage act violation here? absolutely, katie. this is devastaing for donald trump for two rnc. first as maya said, it s a confession on audio tape that trump knew he possessed classified documents, so trump s defense that he declassified everything is just a lie. trump was fully aware that he was illegally hording top secret government documents. and second to your point, katie, if this reporting is true, this is about national security. it s way more than a documents case, as mar-a-lago has sometimes been dismissed. so, the most important question is one that we don t know the answer to, but jack smith might. how was trump intending to use this material? maybe he was just holding on to it to impress his friends and