trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape
That so directly today. Also tweeting about Paul Manafort, feeling frustrated, even victimized you might say that if there was, in fact, this previous investigation that we now know did exist where authorities had been looking at Paul Manafort back in 2014 about his Financial Issues which are the subject of the trial now, not directly related to the campaign. The president writes, Paul Manafort worked for ronald reagan, bob dole and many other highly prominent and respected political leaders. He worked for me for a very short time. It was roughly five months or so. Why didnt government let me know he was under investigation . These old charges have nothing to do with collusion, a hoax. The president is right there that the Financial Issues that are being examined are not about the campaign. Paul manafort worked for him for several months and he worked for him with the express purpose of helping the convention, people forget, you and i lived it, many of our viewers lived it with us that
problematic here? oh, goodness, they are all potentially problematic because those are two different provisions of that statute you identified. number one, retaining the information after it has been requested of you to turn it back, once you knew you were in receipt of it, that is itself a crime. and separately, disclosing the information to someone else who wasn t properly cleared to see it is itself a separate crime. so back to your first question here, what could be concerning to you, what would you look for in the video, if he actually knows that it is defense information and he is waving it around, if somebody else sees it, that itself triggers a different section of the statute. so there is a few different things here. and there is very few smoking guns, i hate that term, it is a tv term, a fiction all term, but this is real evidence if it is what it has been reported to be. and could be used to really
know, volodymyr zelenskyy becoming president is sort of rather like stephen colbert or john stewart becoming president and i have no doubt either one of them would step right up to the damn plate if that happened if faced with an invasion because they re patriotic good people. is that the way that you understand him? i think the idea he was a comedian throws people off when they see how to use a not so tv term bad ass he is? well, hi and first of all, thanks for having me. surprised you didn t mention jimmy fallon. and jimmy fallon. and jimmy fallon. look, president zelenskyy, first and foremost is a human being. you know, he s not a politician. i keep repeating that but it s true. the world now is kind of interested in having bad news. having real people do real things. so real emotions, real mistakes, that s what the world needs. that s the portrait and bronze
right after that i was attacked on cnn. of this new message i ve been noticing for last couple days is that this scandal is too complicated. it is kind of boring to the public. jesse watters saying americans can t find ukraine on a map that s true. put a map on screen help people understand. you know, i think that he was bordering on insulting the viewers at home saying this is not a sexy scandal, this is too complicated. prchl now this guy brian knows exactly what i m talking about. we re in the same business you re busy you have a lot going on at home family, work, and there s always drama. you care about what you feel. politicians in press can make you care. they can break it down and sell it really hard. but there s a limit. admitted it later in the weekend and started worrying if i was right. well people really tune in, i mean, and tv term and i hate to talk this way but let s be honest this is one level of