burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
memos say that he does do what this tape says he did. they caught him on tape, it doesn t even really makes sense, why would you have building plans in your hand while you re talking about milley saying that we ought to give more troops to iran. it is totally inconceivable, unless you want to make that something. mika makes good point. people that gave the tape are going to likely testify and in donald trump s trial. they will say, this is what he said, this is what he showed, we never talked about golf courts or buildings. and who s going to refute? that is don trump going to take a stand because the only one that can get on the stand and contrast that is donald trump. if he does that, he may need to get the handcuffs ready. they will kill him in a cross examination. if he ever gets on the stand, it s unlikely, perhaps, we will see. gentle mary, perhaps the
professional democrats from jeff soccer, all the way to gentle mary and all the people you ve worked with over the years, all seem mad, and i know the clintons are in that group, have they complained to you or people you know? what is the response you are getting? first of all, let me just say this, last week i reached out to as many clinton staffers as possible to let them know that my book was finally coming out, excerpts. i didn t have to do that. i also flew down to washington, d.c., to inform my colleagues at the dnc, again, i didn t have to do that. i am a democrat, a lifelong democrat, and if they choose not to read the book, or they decide to write their own book, i hope they will do that. i read hillary s book, what happen. it s a great book because it s historical, biographical, and also, as a woman who has been very, very active in politics, i thought she really examined some of the reasons why she fell