i m a legitimate person. that s donald trump addressing leaked audio recordings in which he appears to show-off classified u.s. defense plans to people at his new jersey golf club. we ll have all the new developments in that case as well as the evolving defense from trump and his legal team. also ahead we ll go through the monumental decision from the supreme court, a ruling that could prevent the big lie from playing a role in future elections. plus house speaker kevin mccarthy walks back comments about trump s presidential campaign after a candid moment about the federally indicted candidate. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, june 28th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we re learning new and previously unreported details about special counsel jack smith s investigation into former president donald trump s handling of classified documents after he left the white house the new york times is now reporting the prose
thank you both. that is all in on this tuesday night. alex wagner tonight starts right now with my good friend, alex wagner. good evening, alex. good evening, chris. thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. we have breaking news tonight from the new york times this evening, some reporting that makes a recently unearthed chunk reporting even more incredible. if you have not yet heard nbc news has independently obtained the audio of former president trump at his bedminster, new jersey, golf club essentially admitting to a crime. here s trump in july 2021 telling a group of people he still has classified information after leaving the white house and then proceeding to destroy his own defense. he explicitly says on audiotape that he could have declassified this when he was president but he did not. take a listen. i just found isn t that amazing? this totally wins my case, you know? except it is like highly confidential. yeah, yeah. secretive this is secre
Weighing a powerful 5 pounds, 12 ounces and tallia clocking in at 6 pounds and 2 ounces. way to go, allison. i also want to congratulate julian who is now a big brother to his baby twin sisters and appears to be enjoying the new circus that s come to town and will be staying forever. matthew, enjoy the bliss of being a party of five. and do not worry, the doj is requesting that the mar-a-lago documents trial be pushed until december. stay strong. that is our show for tonight. we ll see you again tomorrow. way too early with jonathan lemire is coming up next. are you concerned with your own voice on those recordings? my voice was fine. what did i say wrong in those recordings? i didn t even see the recordings. are there any other recordings we should be concerned of? i don t know any recordings you should be concerned with because i don t do things wrong, i do things right.