even the kremlin calling this situation larming. what we re seeing as a completely new phase alaunching it in russia. we re very clear with the ukrainian that s we do not support attacks inside russia. the 2024 gop presidential race is about to get more crowded. mike pence will throw his hat into the ring. chris christie feels he s the only candidate that is willing to take on donald trump directly head-to-head. are they going to get in the race and tactually say somethin about him, to him? it s a difficulty. and the guide saved a climber s life hauling him down mt. everest for six hours. it was important for us to rescue him. we saved his life by coming down the summit. good morning, everyone. miracles do happen. i love that story. we ll get much more of that ahead. happy to be joined by erica 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
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,
so, you don t know if he had follow up conversations on it. so, the pattern of activity here clearly shows he had the intent to take these things not for any good purpose but for a purpose other than that. again, i think he thinks that these things as a trophy. i think he thinks that he doesn t have to follow the rules on classification. and that s dangerous because of the seriousness of what was in this document. if you have the joint chiefs of staff which, you know, given all the things going on in at the world has to go down to the grand jury to testify about this particular document at this particular time, it shows you, a, the severity of it and why it s dangerous to have people who don t respect or understand the importance of classified information and why it needs to be classified. charlotte, to your point, the legal and political, right? we re focused on the legal for obvious reasons. yet, when we look at the political implications, when we look at how the former president w