a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s 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 documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified
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.
Again, as kiersten just said, we re talking about taking a risk on a guy who may be indicted three or four times between now and the republican convention. so, if you re a republican voter, you have to look at this and say, if we re trying to beat joe biden and the democrats, can you really beat him with a guy who paid off a porn scar, absconded with classified material, tried to interfere with the georgia election results in 2020? there s a whole host and litany of things here that are just so bad. plus there s the fact that he s been losing ever since 2016. republicans have underperformed in all these elections. at some point i think republicans will care about winning again. they want to make winning great again. and he s not doing that. he s not doing anything to help the party. i think this is just another big barnacle on donald trump. as we said, it s in his own voice this time. kristen, just in terms of polling and talking to focus groups, if the former president
And he is not doing that. he s not doing anything to help the party. so i think this is another big barnacle on donald trump and, as was said, it is his in his own voice this time. kristen, in terms of polio time to focus groups, if the former president is indicted by the department of justice or in georgia, will that make a difference? i think you can expect that is soon, if the despite the invite indictment comes down, in the short term, a bump in his poll numbers from this rally around him kind of effect. i ve heard this described as an antibody response, almost, a