“Game over moment”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Government, Nicolle Wallace, Daily News, Msnbc, Versant, The White House, Washington Dc

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2023

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Nicolle Wallace discusses the new reporting on a recording of the ex-president that could prove he knew the documents found in his residences post-presidency were classified, his continued attacks on judges involved in his various legal woes, Governor Ron DeSantis’ struggle to pronounce his own name, backlash in Florida schools to becoming a petri dish for culture war legislation, the tragic overnight airstrikes in Kyiv that killed three people including a child, and more. Joined by: Katie Benner, Harry Litman, Rick Stengel, Dave Aronberg, Barbara McQuade, Errin Haines, Sarah Longwell, Bobby Ghosh, and Igor Novikov.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone.
0:08.8	It's Bore Clark in New York.
0:09.8	There is very good reason why people like our good friend Andrew Weissman are saying
0:14.2	that the tape of Donald Trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be
0:19.4	a game over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation.
0:24.1	It is a recording that not only significantly increases Trump's legal exposure, but it also
0:29.5	blows a gaping hole right through many of the defenses that Team Trump has been peddling
0:34.6	in public in the case.
0:36.3	The ex-president's lawyer Jim Trusty went on CNN last night playing defense in the
0:40.9	wake of the bombshell news for his reported by CNN of the tape's existence and repeated
0:46.3	a line that will be familiar to anyone who's been following this case.
0:50.2	Donald Trump can declassify documents at will or as Trump puts it, even by just thinking
0:55.4	about it.
0:57.4	But what I will tell you is there is no doubt that it is commander in chief and when
1:01.4	the president left Washington, DC, for moral agro, he was actually still president.
1:05.8	When he left for moral agro with boxes of documents that other people packed for him that he brought,
1:11.4	he was the commander in chief.
1:12.7	There is no doubt that he has the constitutional authority as commander in chief to declassify.
1:17.2	It does not have to go through some sort of bureaucratic process to be declassified.
1:23.2	Never mind that the tape conversation takes place in the summer, not during the 11 minutes
1:28.6	he was still technically commander in chief.
1:32.2	That lawyer Trusty will go on to say that he could prove that Trump had declassified
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