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let s take a look at the week s top stories. we re following new reporting involving the investigation into former president donald trump. classify top humans that he took with him when he left the white house. multiple sources tell cnn that federal prosecutors have obtained the 2021 audio recording of trump acknowledging that he kept classified pentagon documents about a possible attack on iran after leaving the white house. the existence of the recording undercuts trump s primary defense that he declassified all the documents that he brought with him from the white house to mar-a-lago. cnn reports that july 2021 meeting was held at trump s golf club in new jersey, with two people working on the autobiography of trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, as well as trump pays, including communication specialist, margot martin, who as the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so r ....
that elected us. and thes bing i can say or that i think can be said about the current deal on the debt ceiling is that it could have been much worse. that was republican senator mike lee and then independent senator bernie sanders sharing their pretty negative opinions on that debt ceiling deal, which is now headed to their chamber. we ll go through the tight time line the senate now has to get this bill to president biden s desk ahead of default. meanwhile, florida governor ron desantis is ramping up up his criticism of donald trump after taking heat from the former president for months, and that comes as two more prominent republicans are ready to jump into the 2024 race. we ll look at the impact chris christie and mike pence may have on the growing field. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 1st. we are in june. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin this morning with a big deal on capitol hill. the ....
we ll get it fixed and get it fixed properly in two years. but we re going to get it fixed and fixed properly. we ll get it fixed in two years. all right. he s going to get it fixed in two years. two years. wait, but he had a chance to fix it in 2017. what did he do? well, he called the debt ceiling sacred. and 18, 19. then he urged a default. now, donald trump is back in the mushy middle, promising a big fix down the road. you know, like infrastructure, health care, and a border wall. yeah. meanwhile, ron desantis continues de-santis. i think you should. really. if i say it, you should do it, okay? willie, mika wants me to change the pronunciation of my name to joe subaru. or brzezinski. joe subaru. it s been scarborough, like, my whole life. yeah. subaru, joe subaru. iramping up for a campaign, maybe it s time for a rebrand. people love a good subaru, reliable automobile. great family car. it is odd, i have to say, that the ....
As the guardian reports, regularly taped trump s conversations with authors to make sure they re accurately recounting his remarks. so really, this is interesting because it s all about people running books about themselves and recording all that stuff that people want to put into history about their time in the white house. it also shows us where the special counsel may be in this investigation, that recording he s talking about, reportedly indicates that trump understood that he had, in fact, kept classified material after leaving the white house. it was still classified while in his possession, and he no longer have the ability to declassify it. on that recording, trump s comments reportedly suggest that he would like to share the information contained within the document, but that he could not because he s aware that he no longer has the ability to declassify materials after leaving the white house. cnn did not listen to the recording, but did cite multiple unidentified sources ....
Describing what was on the tape. trump has denied any wrongdoing. joining us now is political investigations reporter for the guardian, hugo lowell, who has matched cnn s reporting. walk us or if you would, hugo, what you know about this tape, having not listen to, it but heard all the accounts from people who have. what did the former president say and what does it tell us about what he knew about the documents in his possession? he went a little bit further and on the tape you made a suggestion that he should ve declassified this military document relating to iran when he was in the white house and he still had presidential power to declassify. he had not done so. i think it does come back to this point about how he seems to be acknowledging for the first time, that the entire theory about how he could or how he had declassified everything that ended up at mar-a-lago and ....