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
Who weren t authorized, i would just be hammering them. hammering that opponent with this. it s a gift. kristen, is there any reason to believe that any republican primary voters see the classified document investigation is a deal breaker? i don t think most of them view it as a deal breaker at this point, in part because things like the raid on mar-a-lago, it s etra. we saw this circling of the wagons type effect. at the same time, this is an audio recording with trump s own voice saying these things. again, i don t lean towards thinking that is definitely going to be the game-changer, but it s a little different than hearsay. it s different than he said, she said. if he s the one that said it. and to the point about hillary clinton, i am chloe curious, will any of these folks in the field finally decide the gloves are off? trump said this himself, so why don t we go after trump and say we criticized hillary clinton for this, why should we give trump a pass for pulling a hillary?