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all right, shannon, why should the average person who is home right now having a cup of coffee on their way to work, why do they care about paul manafort and rick gates? these are just two guys who seemed to embezzle money for themselves. i would say to pay attention to today. they were just yesterday starting to get into these connections to ukraine. that could be really i guess enlightening to show just how deeply tied paul manafort was to pro-kremlin interest in ukraine. we already know about the $60 million payment. but there is a sense that there s a lot more here. we could get a lot more clarity on how tied he is to the ukraine. i would also note that even though this had nothing to do with the election, there is nothing ruling out that there wasn t be further indictments that could come. i have no reporting to indicate there are any more indictments coming, but i would just say leave open the possibili
Hill. good morning. nice to be with you this morning. p. nice to have you. we start here. federal prosecutors obtained a recording of donald trump saying he held on to a classified document on an attack on iran after he left the white house. it is a meeting he had with two biographers with mark meadows. this happened at his golf club in july of 2021. cnn has not been able to listen to the recording but multiple sources who have describe the contents to us and they say in it trump is discussing a document about a potential plan to attack iran. papers can be heard rustling on the recording. it s unclear if trump showed anyone in the room the document in question. the special counsel focused on it as the criminal probe into trump s handling of national security secrets. and prosecutors questioned multiple witnesses before the grand jury about this recording
Bedminster that we still haven t yet retrieved and the department of justice hasn t retrieved? so, this is a pretty significant document. and, there s to doubt that lots of people are going to be going into the grand jury to explain how this got to bedminster and what happened and what were the circumstances surrounding trump s reading of that document. chairman rogers, to you. you were the chair of the house intelligence committee and knowing that the people in that room in bedminster with the former president after he left the white house had no security clearance whatsoever. and the fact that this was about a potential strike on iran, four pages of that. i should just note that trump said it was written by milley. our reporting is it was not written by the joint chiefs chairman. what pause does that give you? very significant. it s the cavalier nature of which he, a, had the document which is also a crime if he did,
And document. according to sources familiar with the investigation, a recording indicates trump understood that he retained classified material after leaving the white house despite his public claims otherwise. i had no collides. they become declassified with i take thim. if you re the president of the united states, you can declassify even by thinking about it. trump was outraged by report in the new yorker that the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff was concerned trump might set in motion a full scale conflict that is now justified with iran after he last that presidential election. the episode generated enough interest to question milly. he is one of the highest ranking trump era national security officials. questioned about the incident. the spokesperson declined to comment to cnn. trump s attorney deflected when asked about this new information. the president under the presidential records act has
Enript encrypt data on a phone. thank you, david. we ll continue to track it. terrific. and cnn this morning continues right now. trump seems to indicate he is taking classified documents and he is limited to declassify them. that would undercut the argue am he s been making all along. they become declassified when i took them. to be at a country club and talking about plans for a possible military invasion. recordings are like gold to prosecutors. the house voted to pass the debt limit bill. a huge relief for president biden and kevin mccarthy and the global financial system. democrats kept our promise. we all made history. this is the biggest cut in savings this congress has ever voted for. russia s war is increasingly spilling into its own territory.