CNN obtains the tape of Trump's 2021 conversation about classified documents

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🗓️ 27 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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CNN has exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where President Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. The recording includes new details from the conversation that is a critical piece of evidence in special counsel Jack Smith's indictment of Trump over the mishandling of classified information, including a moment when Trump seems to indicate he was holding a secret Pentagon document with plans to attack Iran. Conservative attorney George Conway tells Anderson Cooper that the audio is “stunning” and that the former President has “no respect for the country.” Plus, following the insurrection launched by the Wagner Group over the weekend, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that "the armed rebellion would have been suppressed anyway.” The New Yorker’s David Remnick joins AC360 to discuss Putin’s reaction to the insurrection.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:02.2	We begin tonight with breaking news.
0:03.9	We have obtained what is expected to be a central piece of the government's case against
0:08.1	Donald Trump.
0:09.2	The actual audio recording of the former president talking is if he's showing a highly
0:14.3	classified document on U.S. war plans against Iran with people not clear to even know it exists
0:20.0	to let alone what's in it.
0:22.0	In a moment, only on CNN you will hear what jurors will hear one day.
0:25.9	The recording was made two summers ago.
0:27.7	July 2021 at the former president's club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
0:32.0	You will clearly hear the former president as he is speaking to several people.
0:35.8	According to the special counsel's indictment, they include a writer working on Mark Meadows's
0:39.5	memoir, The Publisher, and two of Trump's staff members.
0:43.3	The president was aware he was being recorded.
0:45.4	It is the first time it is being played publicly.
0:48.1	These are bad sick people.
0:53.1	That was your coup against you.
0:56.3	You started right at the beginning.
0:57.8	When Millie is talking about, oh, you were going to try to do a kick-up.
1:01.0	They were trying to do that before you even were sworn in.
1:04.0	Try to overthrow your life.
1:06.0	Well with Millie, let me see that.
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