the surveillance video. his first court appearance is scheduled for monday. it remains to be seen how that might impacts the timing of the potential trial. we have three co-defendants in this trump case. and of course the third charge that we learned about in this superseding indictment related to a classified document that we ve actually heard about before. and as you know, cnn has learned it is the same document that was referred to in an audio clip that was recorded during an interview in 2021 that trump was doing with biographers at his bedminster resort. take a listen to how trump described this document at the time. and he said he wanted to attack iran and he said you did this was done by the military, given to me. i think we can probably i don t know. we ll have to see. we ll have to try to declassify it. as president, i could have declassified it. now i can t, you know.
isn t that interesting? it s so cool. all right, that recording cited in the special counsel s indictment against trump debunks another trump lie, that he was simply handling newspaper and magazine clippings as he told fox last week. but, look, the significance of that recording goes beyond trump potentially incriminating himself. the new york times reports that investigators working for special counsel jack smith have been quietly focusing on the site of that audio recording. trump s bedminster resort, with the concern that trump was hiding more documents there. according to the times, previously unreported details of the investigation showed that prosecutors working for mr. smith have subpoenaed surveillance footage from bedminster, much like they did for mar-a-lago, and thought fought a pitched battle with mr. trump s lawyers late last year about how to best search the new jersey property. a lot to break down here. let s bring in my panel for this conversation. a former federal pr
declassified it. now i can t, you know, but this is still a secret. isn t that interesting? it s so cool. all right, that recording cited in the special counsel s indictment against trump debunks another trump lie, that he was simply handling newspaper and magazine clippings as he told fox last week. but, look, the significance of that recording goes beyond trump potentially incriminating himself. the new york times reports that investigators working for special counsel jack smith have been quietly focusing on the site of that audio recording. trump s bedminster resort, with the concern that trump was hiding more documents there. according to the times, previously unreported details of the investigation showed that prosecutors working for mr. smith have subpoenaed surveillance footage from bedminster, much like they did from mar-a-lago, and thought fought a pitched battle with mr. trump s lawyers late last year about how to best search the new jersey property. a lot to break down her
now i can t, you know, but this is still a secret. isn t that interesting? it s so cool. all right, that recording cited in the special counsel s indictment against trump debunks another trump lie, that he was simply handling newspaper and magazine clippings as he told fox last week. but, look, the significance of that recording goes beyond trump potentially incriminating himself. the new york times reports that investigators working for special counsel jack smith have been quietly focusing on the site of that audio recording. trump s bedminster resort, with the concern that trump was hiding more documents there. according to the times, previously unreported details of the investigation showed that prosecutors working for mr. smith have subpoenaed surveillance footage from bedminster, much like they did for mar-a-lago, and thought fought a pitched battle with mr. trump s lawyers late last year about how to best search the new jersey property. a lot to break down here. let s bring in
now an audio tape of former president trump acknowledging keeping classified documents, including one on a potential attack on iran. are you aware of what that document could be? well, i don t know what specific document he had. i wouldn t want to get into specifics of any number of documents, but simply to point out that one of the principal directorates of the chief of staff is to produce strategies and plans and policies for war. that is what the pentagon does. it fights wars. and good planning is a prerequisite to be ready in case the need arises. so they produce a lot of plans and strategies, and it is the right thing to do. that doesn t mean that they re going to go into operation tomorrow. what do you make of the fact that a document like that was allegedly in his possession at his bedminster resort after he left the presidency? should it be in that place and