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.
As far as evidence goes, it is very very powerful. general hertling, you have been involved in pentagon war planning. you know how classified documents like this are supposed to be handled. i don t know the contents of this document, but if it s about potential u.s. plans, what an invasion of iran would look like, it seems like it would be pretty important material. what do you make of what the former president allegedly did here? it seems pretty important. what andrew and elliott can talk about the criminality and the legal implications of all this, what i m concerned about is the national security implications. there are reasons why we have stiff penalties, and there are reasons why we have strict laws on these kind of things, because it gives away our nation secrets. i would suspect that if there was a four page document that it was not a war plan. those things come in big binders with a lot of annexes. what i suspect this probably was was communication between chairman milley a
He had. it as far as evidence goes, very, very powerful. general heartling, you ve ben involved in pentagon war planning. you know how classified documents like this are supposed to be handled. i don t know the content, obviously, of this document. but if it s about potential u.s. plans of what an invasion of iran would look like, that seems to be pretty important material. what do you make of what the former president allegedly did here? yeah, it seems like it is pretty important material, anderson. what i d say is andrew and elliott can talk about the criminality and the legal implications of all this. what i m concerned about is the national security implications. there are reasons why we have stiff penalties. there are reasons why we have strict laws on these kind of things. because it gives away our nation s secrets. now, i would suspect if it was a four-page document that it was not a war plan. those things come in big binders with a lot of what i suspect this probably was