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federal prosecutors. the lead starts right now. breaking on cnn this minute. a meeting recorded. sources tell cnn donald trump not only knew he kept classified documents, but talked about them in a meeting captured on tape. what sources say they discussed and the significance of what was said. we have the breaking reporting right now. this hour the debt limit deal put together a growing list of house republicans and democrats coming out saying they plan to vote no. i ll speak with one of them coming up. bullet through a prayer book, a survivor who hid in a closs set. the stark new details in the trial of the tree of life mass shooting suspect. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. a new piece of evidence that undercuts donald trump s defense in the classified documents investigation. federal prosecutors obtained an audio recording of a summer 2021 meeting where the former president acknowledges he held on to a classified pentagon document about a potential att ....
The Department Reports it has now recovered more than 320 classified documents from mara lago. Prosecutors essay some documents were likely concealed or removed from storage in an effort to obstruct their investigation. The court filing casts serious doubt on a statement by trumps attorneys that all classified material had been returned. The Justice Department also argues that trump lacked legal standing to request a Special Master, since the documents belonged to the government, not to him. The court filing came with this photo, showing documents taken by the fbi, from a container in trumps office. More now from cnns sarah murray. Reporter the Justice Department weighs in with its side of the story of what happened in the runup and aftermath of the sear ....
returned them the next day. although, not comparable at all to donald trump ignoring subpoenas and keeping hundreds of classified documents for more than a year at mar-a-lago, the justice department is investigating. trump and republicans are pouncing. this hour, house republicans set up an oversight committee with broad powers to see the nation s top secrets. the justice department s investigations into their own alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election. new questions about the health of brazil s defeated ex-president as calls mount to extradite him from the u.s. who is the talented congressman george santos? new york democratic lawmakers file an official ethics complaint this morning. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york. president biden is under attack from donald trump and from house republicans for the admission that he had classified documents, although very different in quantity and duration, from what donald trump refused to return f ....
get hurt. we begin tonight with a simple rule of legal professionals. in most cases whenever possible, keep your clients off tv and avoid letting them do interviews, which usually do more harm than good. unfortunately, donald trump s lawyers are needy, attention craving client could only hold out for so long, so last night on one of his favorite shows in an interview with his friend, sean hannity, he seemed to make a losing argument even worse. in his latest throw spaghetti at the wall defense or is it throw ketchup at the wall? trump made this outrageous claim about his magical powers to declassify documents. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify just by saying it s declassified. even by thinking about it. because you re sending it to mar-a-lago or to wherever you re sending it. and it doesn t have to be a process. there can be a process, but there doesn t have to be. you re the president. you make that decision, so when you send it, it s ....
she was in the south tower and she made it out, she got caught up in the ash cloud. my mom fought cancer till her death. i don t know, what is it becoming? there s a line that gets crossed on the level of lies we talked about. we joked about things like the scarf and volleyball championship team. this is a different level. hey, everybody. k kaitlan and i are here, poppy is off today. we were talking about george santos, the question is is there no bottom? where does this end? it s one of his most brazen claims, his mom was inside the world trade center able to survive the 9/11 attacks, battling cancer and cnn uncovering evidence she wasn t even in the united states. and this. at 4:58 a.m. how to stop a body from decomposing. gruesome google searches and a disturbing shopping list prosecutors laying out explosive evidence as the husband of the missing massachusetts mother, ana walshe, stands accused of murder. let s talk about the u.s. economy, headed towar ....