A breakdown: key takeaways from the Trump tape

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🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Abby Phillip gives a line-by-line breakdown of the tape in which Trump openly talks about classified information, and also brings you the former president’s response to the audio content. Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton reacts to the recording, and discusses the impact the evidence could have on the presidential candidate’s reelection hopes if the case goes to a jury trial before the 2024 election. Also Tonight: Liz Cheney tells Americans to “stop electing idiots”, the long infamous history of campaign trail gaffes, Putin’s opponents continue to die under mysterious circumstances, and Rudy Giuliani is interviewed in the special counsel’s 2020 election interference probe.

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0:00.0	And good evening, everyone.
0:01.0	Tonight, we begin with a dissection of the tape that may be central to the federal case
0:14.2	against former President Donald Trump.
0:16.8	The tape that he responded to today, and we will get to that in just a moment, but first,
0:22.0	let's start here.
0:23.0	We'll start it right at the end.
0:25.0	When Millie's talking about it, we were going to try to...
0:28.0	No, they were trying to do that before you even were sworn in.
0:32.0	That's right.
0:33.0	Try to overthrow your life.
0:34.0	Well, with Millie, let me see that.
0:36.0	I'll show you an example.
0:37.8	He said that I wanted to attack Iran.
0:43.2	Is it amazing to have a big pile of papers just to just come up?
0:47.6	Look.
0:49.6	From the start, this explains why Trump allegedly flashed a classified document to people who
0:55.2	didn't have a clearance to counter General Mark Millie's claim that Trump was itching
1:00.0	to attack Iran.
1:01.7	And speaking of clearance in that clip, he asked an aide to hand him papers.
1:06.0	Now, it's unclear who exactly did and whether that person had a security clearance either.
1:12.8	They presented me this.
1:13.8	This is off the record.
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