a closer look at the shadowy effort that s getting high-profile results getting the war in ukraine on to russian soil. we begin tonight with exclusive new reporting, the prosecutors investigating former president s handling of classified material have in their position a recording from the summer of 2021 in which the former president is telling people around him in a meeting at his golf rissoles or it in bedminster that he has held on to a pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. cnn s reporting this undercuts his argument that he declassified everything, and on the tape, as he spoke, it sounds like he was waving a piece of paper around, raising the question, was he holding the classified documents in question? which goes to what cnn s kaitlan collins asked him at cnn s town hall earlier this month. when it comes to your documents, did you ever show those classified documents to anyone? not really. i would have the right. two by the way, they were declassified
thank you, anderson, good evening, everyone. i am abby phillips. a busy night tonight. we are watching capitol hill where the house is set to vote on the bipartisan deal to raise the debt ceiling and cut spending. so that the nation efforts are default next week. president biden and speaker mccarthy are defending the agreement as some of their parties are also railing against it. so we will bring you the results of that vote as soon as it happens. but first, to a c cnn exclusive. tonight reporting the federal prosecutors have donald trump on tape in his own words acknowledging that he took a sensitive national security document with him when he left the white house. that is what multiple sources tell cnn. and i will speak with one of the former presidents attorneys in just a moment. but we are told that trump s comments in the 2021 recording suggest that he knew that he kept classified material and wanted to share it but understood his limitations post presidency. in other news, he k