second hour of ayman. our coverage of donald trump s criminal exposure continues with new indications that jack smith might be days away from indicting the ex president again. plus, how trump ropes his employees and you giving him cover by allegedly breaking the law for him. and the desperate attempts by kevin mccarthy and house republicans to pull focus from trump s legal focus. i m ayman, let s get started. we begin this hour with major developments in a special counsel jack smith s investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. as the justice department appears to be nearing a possible indictment, the situation kicks into high gear this week went according to resources, trump s attorneys met with prosecutors in smith s office. two sources told nbc news that at the meeting, trump s lawyers were told to expect an indictment. of course, the ex president is disputing that characterization. in a post on his official social media site, trump said his at
second hour of ayman, our coverage of donald trump s criminal exposure continues, with new indications that jack smith might just be days away from indicting the ex president again. plus, how trump ropes his employees into giving him cover by allegedly breaking the law for him. and, the desperate attempts by kevin mccarthy and house republicans to pull focus from trump s legal crises. i am ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. we begin this hour with major developments in special counsel jack smith s investigation into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. as the justice department appears to be nearing a possible indictment, the situation kicked into high gear this week when, according to three sources, trump s attorneys met with prosecutors in smith s office, and two sources told nbc news that at the meeting, trump s lawyers were told to expect an indictment. of course, the ex president is disputing that characterization. in a post on his failed social media s
good evening tonight three 60, former president trump turns up the glass light, showing off classified material at his golf club is perfectly normal. also tonight, exclusive cnn reporting. rudy giuliani talking to federal investigators and later, russia strikes again this time a crowded restaurant in ukraine. we will take you there. we begin tonight keeping them honest with a former president running a play from the playbook that he is used time and time again. the former president trying to do damage control today after we played an audiotape last night, that cnn exclusively obtained, in which he is boasting about and seemingly showing off, a classified war plan he was not allowed to have, to people not allowed to see it. the audio was recorded with his knowledge at his bedminster golf club in july of 2021, and is expected to be evidenced at his upcoming trial. i want to replay a portion of it for you now, before showing you his remarks today about it. so there s no doubt wh
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
Just because of his role as the former chief of staff. he was present at donald trump s right-hand at all those key meetings. and if he were to cooperate, is information, i think, would be extremely valuable to the government. david, elaborate on that for us. how crucial could meadows cooperation prove for smith s investigation? i don t mean cooperation in the context of an agreement, but just the fact that he s providing information for what they are seeking in those hours and days after the election. i will hazard a guess. i m the only person in the room here at the moment who had mark meadows memoirs of his white house stint. spoiler alert i will speak for myself and say, yes, i did not read mark meadows memoir. but they were about five or six pages stuff about january 6th is really short. and if you see what has come out just publicly in the text messages and everything else, mark meadows in the testimony