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
i m max foster. bianca is off this week. just ahead there is no crime. it is not a crime. to actually hear the former president s words and to hear the tone of this conversation i think is what could be potentially really damaging to trump. it bolsters claim under the espionage act and the obstruction case. vladimir putin has broken his silence. putin has no one to blame but himself for what occurred in russia. he is furious. he has been unmasked like the wizard of oz when the curtain is draped back. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, june 27, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and we begin with that new audio recording obtained by cnn in which former president trump is heard describing secret pentagon documents to staffers at his new jersey home in 2021. the tape which is likely a key piece of evidence in the classified documents indictment against trump undercuts his claims that he didn t keep any classif
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