to take on vladimir putin in russia s presidential election. he stands no chance of winning, of course, but given what has happened to many of vladimir putin s opponents, it is a position that holds substantial risk. boris nadezhdin has now got many thousands of signatures from the public allowing him to stand as a candidate. he stands no chance of winning, but given what has happened to many opposition politicians, it is a move that carries significant personal risk. but boris nadezhdin is an anti war campaigner who s now got over 150,000 signatures from members of the public which means he s passed the threshold, which allows him to stand as a candidate. we ll talk to him live injust a moment. first, though, let s cross to 0lga malchevska in the newsroom to tell us more about how he s managed to get enough support in a country where criticising russia s special military operation can result in a jail sentence. people are queueing here to speak to boris nadezhdin. such q
meeting where former president trump discusses holding secret documents he does not declassify. listen. isn t it amazing? i have a big pile of papers. look. this was him. they presented me this. this is it ooff the record. but they presented me with this. this is the defense department and him. this was him. that wasn t done by me, it was him. all sorts of stuff. pages long. let s see here. isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know, except it is like highly confidential, secret. as a president i could declassify, but now i can t. yeah, now we have a problem. isn t that interesting? so cool. we hear you probably almost didn t believe me, but now you believe me. no, i believed you. incredible, right? this conversation is a critical piece of evidence in the case of trump s alleged mishandling of classified information. and paula reid explains. reporter: this recording is from the summer 2021 at bedminster, speaking to two people working on an auto
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
i m max foster. bianca is off this week. just ahead there is no crime. it is not a crime. to actually hear the former president s words and to hear the tone of this conversation i think is what could be potentially really damaging to trump. it bolsters claim under the espionage act and the obstruction case. vladimir putin has broken his silence. putin has no one to blame but himself for what occurred in russia. he is furious. he has been unmasked like the wizard of oz when the curtain is draped back. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, june 27, 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast and we begin with that new audio recording obtained by cnn in which former president trump is heard describing secret pentagon documents to staffers at his new jersey home in 2021. the tape which is likely a key piece of evidence in the classified documents indictment against trump undercuts his claims that he didn t keep any classif
sources who have read it. there is debate on how serious to take this intelligence. is it a further sign of russian desperation and cause for their concern? or are these discussions being taken out of context? on cnn earlier tonight, top white house security official john kirby reacted to the latest u.s. intelligence report. there are lots of levels of concern, a heightened concern, about what is going on in ukraine right now that gives us cause to continue to closely monitor as best we can, russia s nuclear capabilities. now the intelligence report says that vladimir putin was not part of these talks. but putin has publicly dangled the prospect of using a nuclear device for months. today, russia s ministry of foreign affairs put out a statement, perhaps to try to ease fears that it remains kremlin policy to only use nuclear arms in a defensive response, declaring, quote, that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. also, today putin announced he must once