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
All of that is true. the question is, how they sell it, and the question is, how quickly they can, frankly, move on from this. there are always going to be, on the republican side, those who say that this was just not deep enough, that the spending is still way too high, and those on the democratic side who say that this is just unfair to those who need it most. scott, do you think it will be difficult for minority leader mcconnell to whip gop votes for the bill if there needed to offset democratic defections? i think it will pass with a lot of votes in the senate. big chunks of both parties. it s interesting, the only senate republican that s running for president that has a vote in this thing is tim scott. i did notice he said he was going to vote against it. and rick scott and some others. but he will lose a few. a lot will vote for. it democrats will lose a few. bernie sanders is against it. but again, what you re seeing is two different kinds of people in congress in both chan