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
Knocked him off his course. that s correct. what he s trying to do here, he will say he is yet again a victim. the deep state, general miller out to get him. and he s gonna play the victim and hope to get some sympathy among primary voters. i agree with that. but as a general election strategy, this is devastating. again, as kirsten just said, we re talking about taking a risk on a guy that might be indicted three or four times between now and the republican convention. and so if you are a republican voter you have to look at this and say, if we re trying to beat joe biden and the democrat, can you beat him was a guy who paid off a porn star, absconded with classified material, tried to interfere with the georgia election results in 2020, i mean there s a whole host a litany of things that are so bad. plus the fact that he has been losing ever since 2016. republicans have underperformed in all these elections. so at some point i think republicans will care about winning again. they w