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.
Chairman milley and the president in terms of potential courses of action. and, you know, the chairman of the joint chiefs, potential courses of action, when the president asks them to. so, if the president was using this in any way, that he was denigrating the chairman of the joint chiefs or he was uplifting his own credentials with a bunch of reporters, it just adds, to me, more criminality because it is endangering our nation s national security. and especially if it was about iran. you can imagine who else might be interested in that. and it s a lot of people that president trump used to deal with. andrew, how would the justice department authenticate an audio recording like this? i mean, i guess that s probably not too difficult to do. and how critical are the witnesses who were in that room? well, the witnesses who made the recording will be critical to authenticate it. that s easy. you subpoena them to trial.
President in terms of potential courses of action. and the chairman of the joint chiefs is a potential courses of action when the president asked some. to some of the president was using this in any way that he was denigrating the chairman of the joint chiefs or he was uplifting his own credentials with a bunch of reporters, it is, it adds, to me, more criminality because it is, it is endangered our nation s national security, and especially if it was about iran. you can imagine who else might be interested in that. and it s a lot of people that president trump used to deal with. andrew, how would the justice department authenticate an audio recording like this? i guess that s probably not too difficult to do. and how critical are the witnesses who are in that room? well, the witnesses who made the recording would be critical to authenticate it. that s easy. you subpoena them to trial, they come in to testify about how they did it and what they did with that recording afterwards. e