Bombshell audio in Trump documents case

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Tonight on The Last Word: New audio evidence of Donald Trump in July 2021 contradicts claims Trump made ranting about his indictment this weekend. Also, Vladimir Putin makes his first public remarks since the Wagner mutiny. And failed mutiny leader Yevgeny Prigozhin needs to watch where he travels since he was indicted by the Mueller team for Russia’s 2016 interference that helped Trump. Andrew Weissmann, Bradley Moss, Ali Velshi and Phillips O’Brien join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	Well, 17 days after the 37 count federal indictment of Donald Trump became public an audio
0:07.8	recording of Donald Trump talking about classified documents has now become public tonight
0:16.0	as Rachel and I were just discussing.
0:18.0	And it does add more incriminating detail than the written indictment includes.
0:26.8	We will play that two minute audio recording for you in its entirety in a moment.
0:33.3	You will hear every word.
0:35.3	You can analyze every word.
0:37.2	You can rewind and listen to it again and analyze every word.
0:42.5	Trinny's Andrew Weisman and Bradley Moss will give us their analysis immediately after
0:47.2	hearing this audio recording.
0:49.7	On page 15 of Special Prosecutor to Jack Smith's indictment of Donald Trump, there is a partial
0:53.8	transcript of this recording, a partial transcript of a conversation Donald Trump had at his
0:59.6	golf club in New Jersey on July 21, 2021 with an author and members of Donald Trump's
1:07.2	staff.
1:08.2	The indictment says the conversation quote, was recorded with Trump's knowledge and consent.
1:14.2	The transcript of the recording in the indictment makes it clear that Donald Trump is discussing
1:19.7	a classified document.
1:21.6	When it quotes Donald Trump saying, see as president, I could have declassified it.
1:27.3	Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret.
1:32.4	In the indictment, the transcript refers to a senior military official and country A.
1:38.3	And in the audio recording released tonight, we now have confirmation that Donald Trump
1:42.5	was referring to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark Billy and the
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